King of Cups

Minor Arcana · Kupa Kral

Authoritative command of emotion, relationship and intuition.

Upright: water, emotion, relationship and intuition

Reversed: blocked, excess

Waite's description

He holds a short sceptre in his left hand and a great cup in his right; his throne is set upon the sea; on one side a ship is riding and on the other a dolphin is leaping. The implicit is that the Sign of the Cup naturally refers to water, which appears in all the court cards.

Divinatory Meanings

Fair man, man of business, law, or divinity; responsible, disposed to oblige the Querent; also equity, art and science, including those who profess science, law and art; creative intelligence.

Reversed

Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911 — public domain.

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