Knight of Cups
a romantic offer · an invitation · charm · a proposal
Card art: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, for A. E. Waite. Public domain.
The suit of Cups
In a few words
- a romantic offer
- an invitation
- charm
- a proposal
A knight riding slowly with a cup held out. An offer of the heart, an invitation, charm with intent.
Upright
- Everything
- A knight riding slowly with a cup held out. An offer of the heart, an invitation, charm with intent.
- Love
- A proposal, a romantic approach, someone arriving with feeling. Say what you want.
- Work
- An offer that appeals to your values, not only your salary. Creative collaboration.
- Money
- An offer that sounds lovely. Check the numbers behind the charm.
- Myself
- Follow the heart, with your eyes open.
Arrival, approach—sometimes that of a messenger; advances, proposition, demeanour, invitation, incitement.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 202
Reversed
- Everything
- Charm without substance. Promises made in the mood and forgotten by morning.
- Love
- A suitor who talks and does not show up. Or your own moodiness in the way.
- Work
- An offer that flatters and fails to materialise. Get it in writing.
- Money
- A deal sold on feeling. Sleep on it.
- Myself
- Emotional up-and-down. Anchor to one small routine.
Trickery, artifice, subtlety, swindling, duplicity, fraud.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 202
The card, as Waite described it
Graceful, but not warlike; riding quietly, wearing a winged helmet, referring to those higher graces of the imagination which sometimes characterize this card. He too is a dreamer, but the images of the side of sense haunt him in his vision.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 202
The plain-word meanings on this page were written for ShreeJyoti and are still under review.