Cups · Water
Knight of Cupsfor Libra · Health and Energy
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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 Libra in Health and Energy
The Harmonizer
Cups are the water suit, so the Knight of Cups sits in Cancer. Cancer squares Libra, so the card asks for the move Libra 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 at full speed with nothing slowing it down.
When reading about health through a Libra lens, the Knight of Cups says that you feel like your body is something to accommodate everyone else's schedule around, a problem you will solve later when you have more time, and something that does not get to interrupt the peace you are keeping. This has either led to you postponing care until something breaks, or to you learning that taking care of yourself is not selfish and actually makes you steadier for the people you love. The body has been sending the same signal for months and nobody has bothered to listen. The Libra blind spot in it is being the one who breaks the tie, names the problem, or asks for something first.
In practice that can look like wanting to be looked after. Whatever form it takes, it arrives fast and without brakes.
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