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Knight of Cupsfor Virgo ยท Money and Wealth

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 Virgo in Money and Wealth

The Analyst

Cups are the water suit, so the Knight of Cups sits in Cancer. Cancer sextiles Virgo, which is help that has to be taken up rather than help that arrives. What it asks for is this: say the feeling to the person it is about. Virgo is perfectly capable of that, which is exactly why not doing it needs a better excuse. Upright, this is the element at full speed with nothing slowing it down.

When reading about money through a Virgo lens, the Knight of Cups says that you feel like money is something you track precisely, a source of quiet anxiety (or control), and something you save rather than spend because you're not sure what it's for yet. This has either led to genuine financial stability and the ability to help others, or to a bank account that never feels full enough. You have not looked at your full financial picture all at once, and the not-looking costs more than the looking would. The Virgo blind spot in it is the feeling of being useless, or of having wasted time on something that didn't hold up.

In practice that can look like a gift that complicates things. Whatever form it takes, it arrives fast and without brakes.

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