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Knight of Cupsfor Capricorn ยท Health and Energy

Knight of Cups tarot card

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

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On the card

The knights are often bringing you what your heart has desired. The knight of cups has ventured far to bring you love, but is that really something another can find on your behalf?

Upright
RomanceIdealismFollowing Your HeartCharm

A whirlwind romance, getting carried away in a moment. Possibly a grand declaration (a proposal perhaps?). Outside of romance, perhaps a boss is championing your work or a teacher is advocating for you.

Reversed

You thought a perfect romantic figure (a knight in shining armour) was going to fix all your issues, but now that the fervor has calmed you look around and see your problems are still unresolved. Your emotions are even more riled up.

Its place in the deck.

Court cardKnight
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 ยท 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.
RankThe extremist
The Knight is the extremist: all of the element and none of the brakes.

Where it shows up.

In the stars
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WaterElement
Feelings, relationships, and intuition. In tarot: Cups.
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Knight of Cups for Capricorn in Health and Energy

The Architect

Cups are the water suit, so the Knight of Cups sits in Cancer. Cancer sits directly opposite Capricorn, so this card describes the half of the situation Capricorn habitually hands to someone else. What it wants is this: say the feeling to the person it is about. Handing that to another person is exactly the habit. Upright, this is the element at full speed with nothing slowing it down.

When reading about health through a Capricorn lens, the Knight of Cups says that you feel like your body is a tool for getting things done, something to ignore until it stops working, and less important than the deadline or the person depending on you. This has either taught you hard lessons that finally made you listen or left you running on fumes, surprised each time your body refuses to cooperate. The body has been sending the same signal for months and nobody has bothered to listen. The Capricorn blind spot in it is being useless, being a burden, being the person who could not hold it together.

In practice that can look like wanting to be looked after. Whatever form it takes, it arrives fast and without brakes.

Somewhere else?

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