The appearance of the Knight of Cups in the spread always means news, an offer (excellent). Knight of Cups is a card of love letters and seductive invitations. According to the Knight of Cups, we rush to a romantic date, and we render and accept courtship.

This is a card of the “new spring”, a romantic wind blowing through life. Knight of Cups reacts accurately to approaching the love and mystical side of life, emotional upsurge (sometimes up to seventh heaven). Knight of Cups can say that the actions of the questioner are due to feelings coming from the depths of the soul.

If the Knight of Wands has traditionally always been interpreted as someone absent or “on the run”, then the Knight of Cups has the opposite meaning – this is the arrival, the approach of something or someone pleasant.

For both men and women, the Knight of Cups has traditionally been interpreted as the “Messenger of true love”, and love is mutual.

An envoy, a faithful ally, a visit, as well as rapprochement, reconciliation, an alliance, the successful resolution of unresolved issues in relations with others.

Atmosphere of goodwill, cordiality and warmth.

The Knight of Cups is exceptionally favorable in conflict situations, foreshadowing reconciliation and harmony, elegant settlement of differences, finding a valuable compromise.

Surrounded by negative cards, the Knight of Cups becomes a seducer and deceiver, a dissolute reveler or a “good guy but his deeds are bad”.

A time not burdened by any difficulties, good mood and cordial communication, as well as romantic interest.

Recreation and entertainment, satisfaction of emotional needs, joys of the soul pass through this card.

Receiving and purchasing perfumes and outfits, going to theaters and restaurants, or walking around Montmartre or admiring the sunset over the nearest lake – the Knight of Cups only cares that the action caresses the soul and “turns on” an unrealistic, dreamy mode.

And there – at least the contemplation of Christmas windows, a Viennese waltz, at least one hundred and tenth “Amelie” in a row.

Perhaps, French culture has an almost magical ability to create vibrations of the Knight of Cups out of the blue, literally out of nothing … which is what it is famous for. What’s so romantic about unkempt Montmartre? What is so special about all these Cardin handkerchiefs and Dior bottles, croissants, chansons, champagne, rough speech … you can not understand, just listen.

In the German detective story, the main thing is the unbending police, in the English one – inheritance and poison, in the French one – love, and an almost inevitable romance with a con man or a criminal. The Knight of Cups is the eternal “Midnight in Paris”. See and … it will come to life.

Personal Mood

“On the seventh sky”. Even if this is not deep love (to which the card responds very sensitively), then spiritual elation, carelessness, daydreaming, good mood, lightness of heart, peace and harmony, a very healthy and happy state. Totally unbusinesslike. Creative binge, when the imagination is completely in the power of the senses. This is a card of poetics, inspiration, romance, as well as healing from heart wounds received in the past.

The power of emotions and creative imagination, renewal. And, oddly enough, in this rather euphoric state, you can put things in order and do and solve a lot of things successfully. Perhaps this happens because the harmony of the mind and heart reigns, they do not interfere with each other and do not create internal barriers in business.

The traditional human roles of the Knight of Cups are a kind brother, true friend or lover. As a character, the Knight of Cups is very charming. He can practically do nothing for this, be silent, be dressed somehow – all this will go unnoticed. It is very easy to project what you want onto him, to hear words that he did not say and to attribute feelings to him in accordance with your expectations and desires – it is not for nothing that this card personifies the ideal of a lover. It always has an element of mystery, mystery, but not tense or disturbing, unlike the Moon, for example. Rather, this is due to the fact that the sensitive and creative Knight of Cups always remains a bit of a mystery to himself. He is not at all characterized by typical male self-confidence in the spirit that I am my own boss, I know everything about myself, an open book. The Knight of Cups knows that there is still a lot in him with which he can surprise both himself and those around him.

It is difficult for this person to decide on a profession or relationship (and sometimes with sexual preferences as such). He is not malicious, but does not differ in stress resistance, as he takes everything to heart, and is easily frightened of difficulties. This is just the type of “beautiful person” who does not need to get drunk (while the bitchy Knight of Swords himself is more likely to bring others to the bottle).

The Knight of Cups personifies such traits as romance, sensitivity, dreaminess. Even if he lies, he does it, believing himself in what he says. Calculating cynicism is absolutely alien to him (but there is more than enough imagination, cut off from life).

In general, this is a very bright person, kind and affectionate. He is happy when he is surrounded by friendly attention, and to his credit, he knows how to not only consume this attention, but also give it to others. He is always ready to render a service, to do something good, and suffers if his motives are misunderstood. He is the first to press the button in the elevator, not because he curries favor with his superiors, and he does not give flowers to a woman because he is sexually preoccupied. He is elegant and amiable, not because he is gay. Gallantry is in his blood.

This is a seducer, a comforter, historically a courtly ladies’ man. It is clear that it was more expensive to send such guys into battle, but at court they were indispensable. The ladies were bored, the courtyard lost its luster and turned into a barracks.

The Knight of Cups is a wonderful lover. This lover is for the flowering of your soul. He is a master of pleasing your heart, and captivates you with tenderness, kindness and sensitivity. The Knight of Cups is instinctively perceived by a woman as a gift, as a salvation, as a ray of light in a dark kingdom.

That is why a couple of absolutely innocent dates with him can cause terrible jealousy in other men and women. Men would want to lay down his bones, and take his lady away by forth.

Knight of Cups is so good that your head spins from impossible happiness when he’s around.

On a Deeper Level

Knight of Cups describes a period in spiritual development when it is time to bring yourself into harmony with your strongest feelings and try to express them in life creativity at the highest level.

Desires and feelings are the omnipresent force of life, they can only be mastered through attention and awareness, but not through suppression. Our desires and feelings help us to travel in our inner world, as well as to hold and create in the outer world. The Knight of Cups inspires us to recognize our emotional needs, passions, sufferings and live them with full awareness, completely surrendering to this experience and observing ourselves in it.

The Knight of Cups personifies the air (mental) aspect of Water, and therefore corresponds to the heights of the development of concentration. This gift can be successfully applied in practice, but its role is most significant in spiritual development.

The Knight of Cups personifies the noble seeker of the Grail, “hovering in the clouds” and worshiping the eternal feminine aspect of God. Esoterically, this is Lohengrin, the son of Parsifal, who had to leave the bride immediately after the wedding, because, contrary to the ban, she asked him about his real name.

The Knights of the Castle of the Holy Grail help others incognito, anonymously, that is, it only happens as long as they are unrecognized.

They keep their true high rank as the greatest secret. This self-denial corresponds to the highest aspect of Scorpio (the hypostasis of the Eagle, the transcendence of the ego).

The Knight of Cups personifies the core of courage – idealism and tenderness, the ability to remain kind and noble in pain and happiness. In a metaphysical sense, it is a symbol of a neophyte, full of idealistic aspirations, strong feelings and hope for the initiation.

In a deep psychological sense, the Knight of Cups builds bridges, reunites the archetypal energies of male and female.

He has not fully come to terms with his inner femininity, but the process of finding this reconciliation turns him into a very creative and charming person, capable of manifestations of great kindness.

This is also a Pisces card – emotionality, intuitiveness, imagination, dominated by romantic feelings, creative forces. Knight of Cups describes the cult of spiritual lightness, illumination of the waters of the unconscious with the light of consciousness (the helmet of the Knight on his head is crowned with wings – a symbol of the airy conscious element).

The cloak of blue tones, decorated with scarlet Pisces, the river, the symbol of the Chalice are astrologically referred to the sign of Pisces. This is the final sign of the Zodiac, embodying the victory of spirit over matter, the achievement of absolute merging with the flow.

The white horse is a symbol of nobility of intentions. The direction of his movement is opposite to the zeal of the Knight of Wands and the Knight of Swords. From the mystery of self-affirmation, Knight of Cups returns to the eternal Source, to the bottomless Utopia of Love. The highest feat of the Knight of Cups is to give his soul to his lady.

Professional situation

Professionally used imagination and creative talents. All activities related to the expression of feelings and the satisfaction of the emotional needs of people are artistic and poetic. In particular, this is a card of actors, as well as musicians.

Artistry and the ability to hear the music of the spheres as the key to success. Dancers, poets, aesthetes, designers, restaurateurs or showmen. Consultants, soothsayers, teachers of fine arts, travel and pilgrimage specialists, organizers of events.

Dependence of productivity on spiritual comfort and creative inspiration.

Sometimes Knight of Cups hints at the need for the support of a skilled manager, philanthropist, impresario, since the independence of the Knight of Cups is creative, but not administrative.

Social work, helping people, companion status, human resource management.

Knight of Cups may describe a small business focused on recreation or personal development with an emphasis on harmony, health and beauty.

The atmosphere of goodwill and cooperation in the organization.

Flattering offers, soft negotiations, diplomacy and willingness to meet halfway.

Tip: don’t worry, be happy! Relax and enjoy. The Knight of Cups advises to forget about problems, in the sense of using new opportunities enthusiastically and without hesitation and advices to keep your promises. Go to reconciliation.

Warning: idealization and affectation of feelings. We see something very idealized, through rose-colored glasses. You should not get bogged down in your fantasies, replace the real with the desired and follow the feelings

Financial Situation

Immediate receipt of money or at least a profitable offer, encouraging information. This value clearly works in practice. Prepaid expense.

The reversed Knight of Cups (as well as the reversed King of Cups) has long been considered a sign of loss, especially as a result of fraud, swindle or freeloading. This is a card of keepers of all stripes, including gigolos and marriage swindlers..

Personal Relations

“Honeymoon”. Harmony, pleasant pastime, warm spiritual atmosphere, unity and intimacy. The Knight of Cups idealizes a partner and inclines the partner to idealize him.

Knight of Cups represents happiness in a love relationship, an emotionally rich connection with a creative, dreamy person.

The most traditional meaning of the Knight of Cups is a marriage proposal. If the Ace of Pentacles is nearby, then it will most likely look like a diamond ring as a Christmas present.

According to the Knight of Cups, there are poems, letters, confessions, various manifestations of sensitivity and enthusiasm, declarations of love, open manifestations of feelings. Fullness of feelings, peace and tranquility, good mood, care, comfort and affection.

The Knight of Cups can also describe a very real stage of a relationship, like a honeymoon, when nothing bad happens, because both strongly project exclusively positive things onto each other and see only good things in each other.

Knight of Cups might not deal with reality, but with a projection, a special inspired way of seeing it, replacing the actual with the desired. There is love, attraction to each other, open expression of feelings, a great desire to spend time together, romantic charm, feelings close to culmination. Sympathy is not hidden, but expressed – with bouquets and sweets, romantic invitations and gifts, compliments, poems and kisses. The symbol is extremely important here: a ring, a bracelet, a key, a mirror, a photograph, a certain dress or shirt, a certain date, name, place, ritual, or a specific detail of the appearance begin to play an incomprehensibly global role. Blue handkerchief… Diamond pendants…

Sometimes the “symbolism” of the Knight of Cups, combined with projections typical of the water element, gives an unexpected effect – the relationship becomes a symbol.

In general, I wonder what literature and cinema would do without the Knight of Cups? His plots can be exploited indefinitely, because the Water of their emotional development is fluid, and the possibilities for new awareness and rethinking (Air) are enormous.

In love, the Knight of Cups is romantic, idealistic and delicate than the Knight of Wands. Here the instincts are manifested more gently and refined. High ideals of love are close to him and he does not consider them “naive” at all. You can safely trust his love.

As a lover, the Knight of Cups is shy, silent. He is afraid of relationships with people who are persistent, strong and tough, who can take power over him. He is able to behave altruistically and sacrificially. In sex, he gives, regardless of gender and feels “taken”.

In general, the Knight of Cups takes his feelings very seriously and truly believes that they will last forever.

Health

As a significator of the problem, the Knight of Cups can indicate, first of all, emotional disorders, all kinds of complexes and mental wounds (filled with alcohol, sleeping pills and other “auxiliary” drugs), as well as bipolar (between depression and ecstasy).

May hint at anemia, overwork, a cold.

Reversed – hangover, poisoning, overdose, intoxication.

Reversed Knight of Cups

Reversed Knight of Cups warns you of dangerous illusions, as well as withdrawn invitations, difficulties in making contact.

The offer or opportunity turns out to be very deceptive, and good intentions, promises and inducements are illusory. It is also a lack of fidelity to your own ideals, betrayal of yourself, emotional dishonesty.

A trip or expected news is delayed, postponed. Something prevents the meeting from taking place.

Uncertainty and timidity that prevent you from achieving what you want. Escape from reality, inactive daydreaming.

Hypersensitivity, self-doubt, a tendency to obsessive fears.

Sometimes it is an indicator of addictions to sex, alcohol, drugs and other things, mainly out of fear of reality.

The Knight of Cups reversed usually has something to hide. It can be infidelity or an unapproved romance, drug addiction, financial difficulties.

“Love that does not dare to name itself” as same-sex relationships were called in the 19th century is another meaning of Knight of Cups.

In combination with the Tower, it could be interpreted as coming out.

A draftsman, a flatterer, a perfidious and deceitful young man, an intriguer. Duplicity, show. Incomprehensible feelings and sensations, ambiguity. Deception, fraud, cunning, dexterity, tricks, swindle, lies.

Deceptive or unrequited love, cooled feelings. Love manipulation, emotional cruelty. In the worst case, a broken heart, emotional damage (and a lesson) for the questioner.

With other Cards

With the Chariot – a favorable outcome.

With the Seven of Pentacles – a profitable visit.

With Ten of Pentacles – return home.

Archetypes of Knight of Cups

Liberation of Psyche by Cupid

Paris, beloved of Helen of Troy

Saint Francis

Knight on a white horse, savior and liberator

Troubadours, minnesingers, “enchanted wanderers”

Happiness is a state of mind. If you want to be happy, be.

The colors of this Arcana are the most watery – cold blue and greenish. The Knight of Cups Crowley is clad in black armor. Behind his back are visible wings, which seem to be a natural continuation of the back. He sits on a white horse, which rushes forward and freezes in front of the viewer in a high jump. The Knight’s right hand is holding a bowl in which a crab sits. In the lower right corner of the card, a peacock spreads its beautiful tail.

Wings on the rider’s back – Striving for spirituality
Horse looking up – Activity
The white color of the horse – Purity, naturalness, closeness to instincts
Chalice – Belonging to the element of Water
Crab – Symbol of cardinal water sign Cancer
Peacock – Bright sparkle of water, the ability of this element to fluorescence

Knight of Cups is a pleasant, amiable and friendly person, but his character is not deep, but rather somewhat superficial. He gladly responds to what seems attractive to him, he is easy to inspire, but at the same time, deep emotions are still alien to him. He also cannot be called patient and hardy. Conflicting elements – Fire and Water, which are combined in the character of this Knight, often bring trouble to his life, because swiftness and rage are very difficult to “make friends” with natural peacefulness. That is why our poor Knight of Cups in life has to rely on pure luck, which in most cases saves him.

An unfavorable environment gives rise to deceit, laziness and voluptuousness in our hero, and if we add to this the lack of endurance and patience, one can imagine how terrible the shadow manifestation of his character can be. Crowley himself notes that the Knight of Cups often tries to drown out the conflict of the elements in his own soul with the help of alcohol or drugs, which in the end can lead to melancholy insanity or worse.