Knight of Cups
The Prince of Cups represents a sensitive, charismatic, and romantic figure whose charm can mask problems with truth and reality. The card highlights a tension between feeling and mind, urging the seeker to reconcile intellect and emotion and gain clarity about their own feelings. It warns of conflicting emotions that can lead to betrayal or self-deception when ideals and reality clash. The Exploring the Card example shows how external expectations and loyalties can twist sensitivity into cruelty, yet conscience and shock at others' suffering may remain.
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Title
Prince of Cups
Correspondences
Air of Water
Keywords
Tension between feeling and mind, charisma, gaining clarity of our own feelings, conflicting emotions
Meaning
Traditionally the Prince of Cups can signify a romantic, a knight in shining armor, a sensitive and seductive young man. The Prince may sometimes have problems with truth and reality and may turn out to be a liar and a betrayer. The seeker is faced with the task to reconcile intellect and emotion.
Exploring the Card
Conflicting emotions are a hallmark of Draco’s development. Attachment to his father makes him hateful of muggles and muggle-borns and all those who protect them. It also makes him proud to be entrusted by the Dark Lord with the important mission to kill Dumbledore. He is cold-hearted, underhanded, a bully and on occasion downright vicious, as when he stomps Harry in the face on the Hogwarts Express. At the same time the pureblood and Death Eater expectations thrust on him nearly destroy him. He cannot bring himself to become a murderer, he fails on his mission and eventually becomes a victim of the forces he thought he controlled. In the end we see him downright shocked and sickened by the pain and death of others such as when he has to face the strung-up teacher for Muggle Studies or when he weeps for his dead friend.
Visual Description
A young man in a long cloak and school-like vest stands before a low stone wall and bare trees. He holds a stemmed chalice in his right hand and an ornate small object or hilt in his left. Decorative swirling motifs frame the figure, and a patch of dense shrubs grows at his feet. The expression on his face is calm and slightly distant, and a small emblem is visible on his chest.
Harry Potter tarot
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