The Meaning of the King of Cups in the Tarot Card System

King of Cups

General Meaning

The King of Cups symbolises attachment to homeland and home. The King of Cups is a positive card, symbolising the overcoming of a crisis and the beginning of a new, positive stage — a stable relationship or marriage, with a strong emotional bond and trust forming between partners. If the card refers to a person, it symbolises an honest, mature, successful, and responsible man. He is very sensible and fair to everyone, and makes wise decisions. Thanks to his education and upbringing, he knows how to make an impression on the one he desires. The embodiment of authority, honour, justice, and reasoned, conscious action. Someone around you may help you resolve some of life's problems without selfish motives. All you have to do is ask for help.

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Meaning in Situations

It is possible that an educated and cultured person will hear you out and give you useful advice. Or the reverse — you will have to listen to one of your friends and offer advice yourself. You have found yourself in a situation where compassion and care are expected of you. You may find understanding in an emotionally stable, mature man. He will be able to give you good advice drawn from his personal experience. It is possible that your father, or the person who takes his place, will play a very important role in your life in the current situation.

Care needs to be shown. Good advice in matters of the heart. A meeting with the King of Cups.

Work

Stable, with a good income. Ideology, psychology, religion. A lecturer in the humanities. Law. Art, meditation. Mediums, psychics, fortune-tellers, healers.

Health

Good. Psychosomatic illnesses.

Relationships

Fatherly. Plenty of warmth, care, tenderness, and attention. The leading role in the relationship. Displays guardianship. A tendency to instruct and nurture. At times he can be withdrawn.

Personality Type

Water. Scorpio. Fair-haired or grey-haired. High sensitivity, creative gifts. Romantic, gentle, poetic, tactful. A father, a guardian. A relative (Cups are the cards of relatives). Gets involved in others' lives, caring, listens to those around him. He soothes and puts people at ease. Magnanimous.

Advice and Warning

The advice is to take the matter under your care. Surrender to your emotions, stay true to your feelings. It warns that excessive gentleness and trust may harm you.

Yes or No

"Yes." You will be dealing with a leader. A patron may appear in your life.

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Reversed Meaning of the Card

It is possible that the advice you are expecting from a professional will not lead to the desired result. Someone may be using you, playing on your feelings to achieve far-reaching goals of their own. There is a very high chance that you have fallen into the hands of a swindler. Someone may be trying to deceive you. If a charming man has just entered your life, be careful — he wants to draw you into dubious dealings that will bring you nothing but trouble. If you have been made an offer that is too tempting, it may be that someone wants to cheat you. Do not agree to offers of that kind.

Loss of patronage. Trouble caused by badly built relationships, or by alcoholism. A meeting with the reversed King of Cups.

Reversed Meaning: Work

Losses. Favouritism toward one's own, protectionism. The absence of a master plan.

Reversed Meaning: Health

Strength drained away in drinking bouts and parties.

Reversed Meaning: Relationships

A very difficult marriage. Plenty of hypocrisy and lies. A man unwilling to take responsibility — a pushover. A negligent father.

Reversed Meaning: Personality Type

Immature emotionality, lack of willpower. Weakness, alcoholism, drug addiction. A lost, faded brilliance. A hypocrite with double standards, two-faced. Weakness hiding behind outward bravado. Self-deception. Sometimes wears a mask of carelessness and indifference.

Reversed Meaning: Advice and Warning

The advice: either do not support anyone, or do not count on support yourself. It warns that you will lose support.

Reversed Meaning: Yes or No

"No." Your authority may be shaken, or you will lose your connections.