Cups · Water
Knight of Cupsfor Leo · Love and Relationships
"Romance isn't the question. What you do next is."
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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?
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.
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.
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Knight of Cups for Leo in Love and Relationships
The Creator
Cups are the water suit, so the Knight of Cups sits in Cancer. Cancer sits directly beside Leo, the one relationship a sign cannot see clearly because it is too close to get any distance on. What it asks for is this: say the feeling to the person it is about. The difficulty is noticing it is being asked at all. Upright, this is the element at full speed with nothing slowing it down.
When reading about relationships through a Leo lens, the Knight of Cups says that you feel like love is something you give in grand gestures and then measure back in kind, something that should feel like being chosen (or being enough), and something you do not know how to do quietly. This has either created partnerships where both people show up fully visible, or left you wondering if anyone would love you if you stopped performing. The thing you're not saying out loud is the thing that matters most. The Leo blind spot in it is being ordinary, being forgotten, being the one no one thought to invite, being seen doing something mediocre.
In practice that can look like heartache, or an old love resurfacing. Whatever form it takes, it arrives fast and without brakes.
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