Newsgroups: alt.divination
From: jamie@cs.sfu.ca (Jamie Andrews)
Subject: Re: son of cups?
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 17:45:48 GMT

Brian Grady <bgrady@fraser.sfu.ca> wrote:
> I keep getting the son/knight of cups both right way up and reversed
> in my readings, and since there seem to be so many different
> interpretations of the court cards, I was wondering what others out
> there make of this card.

     Indeed.  I have never seen two books agree completely on the
interpretation of the court cards.  I have come up with an
interpretation of my own, which might be interesting to you.  I will
go over the general interpretation and then talk about the Knight of
Cups.

     The qualities of the suits, for me, are:

Pentacles: money, material things, sex
Cups: emotions, including love, anger, sadness
Rods: spirituality, creativity, planning
Swords: logic, thought, action

     The court cards, for me, signify:

Pages: sensitivity and attendance to others' needs with respect
  to the quality of the suit
Knights: sensitivity and assertiveness about your own needs with
  respect to the quality of the suit
Queens and Kings: female and male aspects of mastery over
  everything to do with the quality of the suit

The court cards could refer to other people, yourself, or
aspects of your personality.

     Every Tarot card talks about balance, and is telling you
about an area of your life which is, was, or may be out of
balance, or complimenting you on maintaining balance in that area.

     OK, so sum total for the Knight of Cups is: it is about balance
in the area of asserting your emotions.  People should be aware of and
express their anger, love, sadness and so on, without being too
aggressive, wearing their heart on their sleeve, and so on.  The card
is recommending that you try to maintain balance in this area, or
perhaps it is talking about your relationship with someone who is
particularly good or bad at maintaining balance in this area.

     I don't usually give different interpretations to upright or
reversed cards, since usually the position of the card in the spread
gives more of an indication of whether it is to be interpreted
positively or negatively.

--Jamie.
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