Minor arcana · Cups
King of Cups
The King of Cups stands for the mature mastery of the emotional field. He knows how to recognise feeling without handing it the conduct of the decision.
The King of Cups stands for the mature mastery of the emotional field. He knows how to recognise feeling without handing it the conduct of the decision.
The King appears alone, crowned, a cup in his hand. The composition stops at him, with no setting or other figure to place the scene around his seat.
Emotional maturity lets you stay present when feelings get complicated: you receive them and you decide without crushing them.
By dint of keeping your calm, mastery becomes armor: you let nothing show, and the distance you maintain cools those who approach you.
Symbolism TdM. The king closes the court hierarchy and wears the closed crown, the mark of established power in Marseille card makers’ iconography.
Receive the feeling, look at what it brings as information, then decide while taking everything else into account.
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