If you missed the last Card by Card post on the Two of Cups, you can read about it here.

Once again, I’ll be taking a look at several variations from different decks and gathering that particular Author and/or Artists thoughts and perspectives.

The King of Cups is the randomly drawn COTW-card of the week.   What does it mean when you receive this card in a one card daily drawing or it turns up in a spread?

The first King of Cups we will be looking at is from the Radiant Rider-Waite Tarot published by U.S. Games Systems, Inc. 2003.

Divinatory Meanings:  Fair man, man of business, law, or divinity; responsible, disposed to oblige the Querent; also equity, art and science, including those who profess science, law and art; creative intelligence.  ~Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot

Cups are associated with the element of Water and deal mainly with our emotions.

King of Cups as Lover Archetype

Understanding the Tarot Court by Mary K. Greer & Tom Little

     “Characteristics include vitality, passion, and appetite for life.  The lover is deeply sensual and not ashamed of his pleasure or his body.  Experiences an intimate contact with everything around him, and feels primal hungers passionately.  He wants to touch the world in its totality.  He is aesthetically attuned to the environment.” 

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