Card 49 • cups

King of Cups

Brief Description

The King of Cups represents calm emotional maturity, honesty, and fair judgment tempered by compassion. He embodies sanity, consistency, refinement, and self-esteem, and is associated with education and cultural interests. This card signals respect for laws, responsibility, and possession of information or wise counsel, often linked to science and the arts. Upright, it emphasizes amiability, unselfishness, and a focus on learning; reversed, it cautions against nervousness, intrigues, and self-delusion.

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King of Cups

Keyword

CIVILIZATION

Description

This card is about honesty and fairness, possession of information, calm and emotional maturity. Sanity, consistency, refinement, self-esteem. Education and culture. Respect for laws, responsibility, interest in science and the arts.

Upright

amiability, unselfishness, education

Reverse

nervousness, intrigues, self-delusion

Visual Description

A bearded king sits on a stone throne beneath drooping willow-like branches, dressed in ornate gold and blue robes with a fur-lined cloak. He holds a large, decorated chalice in one hand while the other rests on the arm of the throne; a calm body of water is visible behind him. The bottom of the card shows the Cyrillic title "Король Кубков" and a small watermark reading "TAROSHOP.RU".

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✍️ Deck author(s): Mila Losenko

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