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King of Cups
Minor Arcana · Cups · Water
Upright
- Emotional mastery
- Kindness
- Diplomacy
- Wisdom of the heart
- General
- Calm amid the waves. Feeling deeply without being swept away. A gentle authority, sound advice.
- Love & relationships
- A mature, stable, caring partner, able to handle the couple's storms without fleeing them.
- Career & money
- A humane manager, a mediator, a trusted advisor. Financial decisions made with restraint.
- Advice
- Stay in charge of your emotions without denying them. Kindness is a strength, not a weakness.
Reversed
- Coldness
- Manipulation
- Repressed emotions
- Instability
- General
- The throne rocks. Repressed emotions exploding, calculated coldness, or sensitivity used to control.
- Love & relationships
- A distant or moody partner who refuses to talk about feelings, or manipulates softly.
- Career & money
- An unpredictable superior, a decision made in a fit of temper, a mediation turning into manipulation.
- Advice
- What you repress always comes out. Speak before the wave knocks you over.
What you see on the card
- A king seated on a throne floating on a rough sea
- A cup in one hand, a scepter in the other
- A fish leaps out of the water to his left
- A ship in the distance to his right
- A fish-shaped pendant on his chest
How the card works
Cups (Water). Water is what we feel: love, friendship, dreams, nostalgia. Cups speak of the heart, of bonds between people, and of inner life.
King. Outer mastery: leading with the element, authority and responsibility.