Card 49 • cups

King of Cups

Brief Description

The King of Cups represents Fire of Water - a fiery water that embodies unbridled passion and intoxication. This card symbolizes someone in a state of illusion, intoxicated by desires, hopes, ideas, or emotions. While the person may be experiencing delusional states or struggling with addiction, there is potential for growth and emergence from these circumstances through an unseen process of transformation.

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Fire of Water - Unbridled Nature

Fire of Water – fiery water – unbridled nature, alcohol. He has a heart like the queen, but it hangs, it burns, and he has no intention of giving it away.

The Drinking Person

A drinking person. On one hand, this may be alcohol, on the other hand an intoxicated state – intoxicated by desire, hope, ideas, feelings, emotions.

State of Illusion

A person at this stage is in a state of illusion and delusion. But it's possible they will live through this state and emerge from this situation.

Hidden Process

A process that we do not see, that we cannot adequately assess to the end. May simply be a sign of feasting.

Visual Description

A skeleton wearing a large sombrero and a patterned blue shirt raises an ornate cup to its mouth. A red heart-shaped pendant rests on its chest. The figure stands amid a bed of blue flowers and winding green stems against a pale decorative background. The printed title "KING OF CUPS" appears at the bottom of the card.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Fabio Listrani

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