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Waite-Smith Tarot card: Knight of Cups
Illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith · 1909

Knight of Cups

The Knight gives movement and language to feeling. He carries an offer or quest guided by beauty and ideals; integrity depends on matching poetry with dependable action.

When the energy is open
  • romance
  • invitation
  • idealism
  • following the heart
When it enters shadow
  • moodiness
  • fantasy
  • seduction
  • broken promise
One symbolic doorway

The vessel of water

The cup receives, contains, and exchanges emotional energy. Its lesson concerns the quality of what you allow yourself to feel and hold. The Knight mobilises the element, showing both its directed power and the danger of becoming possessed by it.

The question to carryHow can I give this feeling a form that another person can trust?