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King of Cups

Water · Cups

On the card

A crowned figure sits on a throne on a rough sea, cup in one hand and sceptre in the other, a fish leaping and a ship behind.

Upright

Composure
Care
Steady feeling

The sea is choppy and the throne is level, which is the whole of the traditional reading: feeling neither denied nor allowed to steer.

Reversed

Suppressed
Volatile
Detached

Read reversed, the balance goes one way or the other — feeling held down until it escapes, or held so far off that nothing reaches him.

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About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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