Card 49 • cups

King of Cups

Brief Description

The King of Cups embodies emotional balance, compassion, and mature empathy, symbolized by a joyous ruler raising a golden chalice and a watery cloak merging with the sea. He represents a calm, caring personality with emotional wisdom and overflowing generosity. In readings he advises steadiness, kindness, and the measured use of feeling and creativity. Reversed, the card warns of emotional immaturity, moodiness, creative frustration, volatility, and self-serving behavior.

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Description

The joyous king holds his golden chalice high, toasting the wellness of his kingdom. His watery cloak flows smoothly into the sea, illustrating his free and easy going temper.

Upright Meaning

A compassionate figure. A calm and caring personality. Emotional wisdom and maturity. Overflowing generosity and kindness.

Reversed Meaning

Emotional immaturity. Creative frustration. A moody person. Volatility. A self-serving individual.

Visual Description

A crowned king sits half-submerged on a stone column set in rolling water, one hand resting on the column and the other holding a jeweled chalice high. He wears a patterned purple robe and a blue cloak decorated with teardrop motifs that flow like water down his side. His face is pale and stylized, with a darker shadow around one eye and small bubbles or dots near his cheek. In the background are towers and domes with flame-like finials, small stars in the sky, and splashing waves at the base of the scene.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Patrick Valenza

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