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Cups · Water

King of Cupsfor Aries · Money and Wealth

King of Cups tarot card

"Emotional Balance isn't the question. What you do next is."

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On the card

The king represents taking action on matters of love and emotion. A masculine energy, the king represent fire and water and dominion over the emotional plain.

Upright
Emotional BalanceWisdomDiplomacyCalm Authority

Someone (or yourself) is upholding the emotional wellbeing of you and those around you. A gentle forcefulness or protective energy around your heart. Unlike the queen of cups, the king represents a more active role (instead of nurturing/healing it's more about setting boundaries and moving forward).

Reversed

A malevolent force in your life, aware of the occult and intentionally taking actions against you. Perhaps a roguish figure who has two emotional lives that do not overlap. Avoid vices and scandal or people associated with them.

Its place in the deck.

Court cardKing
One of the 16 court cards: a Page, Knight, Queen and King in each suit. A court card often stands for a person in your life, or a side of yourself you are showing right now.
SuitCups · Water
Cups are the suit of Water: feeling and attachment. A Cups card is always, underneath, about what you feel and who you are attached to.
RankOutward authority
The King is outward authority: wields the element in the world, at the cost of feeling it.

Where it shows up.

In the stars
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WaterElement
Feelings, relationships, and intuition. In tarot: Cups.
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King of Cups for Aries in Money and Wealth

The Initiator

Cups are the water suit, so the King of Cups sits in Cancer. Cancer squares Aries, so the card asks for the move Aries is least fluent in: say the feeling to the person it is about. The friction is the content, not an obstacle to it. Upright, this is the element used out in the world, at the cost of still feeling it.

When reading about money through an Aries lens, the King of Cups says that you feel like money is the thing you need to move forward, a problem to solve immediately (or spend away), and something that only matters if it is stopping you from doing the next thing. This has either made you resourceful enough to start with nothing and build fast, or left you broke from betting on yourself before you were ready. You have not looked at your full financial picture all at once, and the not-looking costs more than the looking would. The Aries blind spot in it is the feeling that nothing you do makes any difference, that you are not the center of the story.

In practice that can look like a gift that complicates things. Whatever form it takes, it is being decided by whoever holds the authority.

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