Card 49 • cups

King of Cups

Brief Description

The King of Cups represents steady, gentle emotional authority and compassion that remains calm amid chaos. He values empathy, artistic expression, and deep devotion to family and relationships, serving as a protective and fair father figure. He can inspire loyalty and bring others to your cause through kindness and dignity. Reversed, his warmth can become deception, emotional distance, manipulation, excessive sentimentality, or an explosive temper.

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Card Title

KING OF CUPS

Keyword

Gentle Power

Description

In a swirl of chaos, the King of Cups sits at ease, generating warm, kind, and gentle support. He values empathy and compassion above all things and the expression of humanity's greatness through arts and culture. His family and relationships mean everything to him, and he expects those around him to be sensitive to the experiences of others. He is the quintessential father figure: devoted, fair, and protective. When he shows up in your reading, he can bring others to your cause, appealing to their sense of loyalty and devotion.

Meaning

a warm father figure, empathy and concern for others, gentle power, inspired by art and culture, dignity and conviction, kind and compassionate, fiercely protective.

Reversal

deceptive, distant, emotionally manipulative, overly sentimental, a pushover, explosive temper.

Visual Description

A formally dressed man in a suit sits with one leg crossed inside a large circular, bowl-like structure that floats amid choppy ocean waves. He holds a single cup in his hand and looks to the side as water splashes around the rim of the circle. Two dark triangular shapes rise behind the circular form and a pale, misty sky fills the background. The printed title "KING OF CUPS" appears at the bottom of the card.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Jonathan Saiz, Jason Gruhl, Andi Todaro

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