![]() He is graceful, dilettante, with the qualities of Venus, or a weak attractive, and easily becomes enthusiastic under such stimulus, but he is not very enduring….Yet with all this he possesses an innocence and purity which are the essence of his nature. Moreover, in terms of his personality, Crowley describes the Knight of Cups as “mostly passive, in accordance with the Zodiacal attribution. Inside the cup is the crab of Cancer, representing the quest to find our spiritual homes no matter how far we wander.īelow the Knight of Cups is a blue peacock, whose plumage transforms into the waves of the ocean.Ĭrowley says, “The Knight of Cups represents the fiery part of Water, the swift passionate attack of rain and springs more intimately, Water’s power of solution.” In his hand is the red Holy Grail, the same one held by the Scarlet Woman in the Lust card. In the Thoth Knight of Cups we see a Knight on a winged horse, a Pegasus. As the Knight of Cups he stands for the world of dreams and fantasies, the all-powerful imagination of hermetic science that makes “nothing impossible.” And as the Knight of Cups, he stands for the energetic usage of the imagination to achieve his goals, to strive for success in finding the Holy Grail. The idea that from the power of your ideas as God “nothing is impossible” is at the heart of the tradition of Western Occultism and its most American by-products: New Thought.Īll these ideas and more are symbolized by the winged helmet of the Knight of Cups. Suppose nothing to be impossible for yourself. Become eternity and thus you will understand God. Be free from every body, transcend all time. If you do not make yourself equal to God you cannot understand Him. See what power you have and what speed! You can do all these things and yet God cannot? Reflect on God in this way as having all within Himself as ideas: the cosmos, Himself, the whole. In Book XI of the Corpus Hermeticum, Nous, the Universal Mind (God), says to Hermes that: The wings of the helmet and the “higher graces of the imagination” Waite refers to are a reference to the occult art of hermeticism, the fleet-footed god Hermes/Mercury was a stand-in for the Egyptian God Thoth, himself a version of Hermes Trismegistus, the mythological figure behind the hermetic movement from the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, which became one of the preeminent sources of influence on the great tradition of Western Esotericism. If the Page of Cups was receptive to messages from the unconscious, the Knight of Cups is willing to dive into the watery depths himself, wanting to experience the mystery himself. Regardless, he is prepared for an adventure of the soul. Perhaps it is fantasy, but perhaps it is the secret of the world. ![]() There is an element of sacredness in his pursuit as if he is pursuing the Holy Grail. He represents the courage to follow our emotions where they may go. ![]() The Knight of Cups is a dreamer like the Page of Cups but he takes a step further: he begins to act on his dreams. He too is a dreamer, but the images of the side of sense haunt him in his vision.” ![]() In the Pictorial Key, Waite describes the Knight of Cups as “Graceful, but not warlike riding quietly, wearing a winged helmet, referring to those higher graces of the imagination which sometimes characterize this card. In the background, we see a flowing river. In the RWS, we see an armored knight on top of a gray horse, wearing a cloak of fish, a winged helmet and shoes, and holding a cup. Reversed : not expressing yourself, being discouraged, ennui, depression, too emotional, socially withdrawn Rider-Waite-Smith He can also symbolize that something positive is coming your way and will probably arrive soon, since the knight is in motion. He can also represent someone with the characteristics of the Knight of Cups.Keywords : Adolescence, youth, journey, action, charming, affable, romantic, dreamer, people skills, When this card comes up you might be full of passion for something and acting in accordance with your feelings. The Knight of Cups is a combination of the elements fire and water and therefore a representation of action that is driven by emotion. In the background we see a landscape with mountains and a stream representing flowing emotions. There are wings on the knights helmet and feet as a symbol for an active imagination and spirituality. The cloak the knight wears is adorned with red colored fish, symbolizing emotions and creativity. It is a symbol for energy and power - and the colour white symbolizes spirituality and purity. The horse moves slowly and controlled by the knight. We see an armored knight with a cup in his hand, riding on a white horse.
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