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Cups · Water

Knight of Cupsfor Scorpio · 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 · 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 Scorpio in Health and Energy

The Transformer

Cups are the water suit, so the Knight of Cups sits in Scorpio. That makes this Scorpio's own card, so nothing in it is being read from the outside, and the flattering interpretation is the one to distrust. What it asks for is the thing Scorpio already believes it is good at: say the feeling to the person it is about. Upright, this is the element at full speed with nothing slowing it down.

When reading about health through a Scorpio lens, the Knight of Cups says that you feel like your body is something you ignore until the problem is undeniable, a machine you are behind on maintaining (or refuse to examine closely), and a frontier you do not trust yourself to explore. This has either led to you discovering something serious late, or to you becoming obsessively knowledgeable about the one thing you do decide to fix. The body has been sending the same signal for months and nobody has bothered to listen. The Scorpio blind spot in it is the feeling of being fooled, or of being seen as naive, or of depending on someone who will leave.

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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