King of Cups Tarot Card Meanings and Combinations
Suit Element: Water, female, passive energy - emotions Keywords and Phrases: Easy-going, thoughtful and considerate. King of Cups Tarot Card Meanings The King of Cups is easy going and gentle-natured, they usually get along with most people as they don’t like to upset the apple cart. They feel things deeply but can sometimes give the impression of putting their head in the sand, as they can be quite passive and dislike confrontation. Sometimes this can be one of their telltale signs, as they curiously seem to go missing or are conveniently unavailable when there's something unpleasant to deal with, meaning someone else would have to take care of it. The water element sits happily with deeper issues, so they really listen to you, make you feel understood, and empathise with problems, but they don’t deal with conflict or anger very well as it feels alien and overwhelms them. They’re one of the nicest guys you could meet but not very strong. On the downside they can be sulky, passive-aggressive, or manipulative by using emotional guilt. In predictive reading, the Kings and Queens can be taken to indicate the characteristics and personality description of a mature man or woman appearing in a situation, so it can help you to be clear in your interpretation. Everyone tends to have a mixture of all the cards, similar to our astrology chart, so we all have a balance of the elements, but we also tend to have dominant factors, and these are what we look for. In daily life and conversation we often stereotype people when describing to others, so this is a similar approach. Some readers like to use the Kings and Queens to represent a facet of your personality whereas, due to my style of reading, I prefer to use them to identify specific people, so the Queens would always be women and the Kings always men (regardless of sexual orientation). In terms of astrological sun signs, Cups could be taken to represent those of the water element, Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces. Tarot Card Combinations: All the Kings and Queens have positive and negative traits so within the reading the individual meaning is neutral, depicting a particular person, and relying on surrounding cards to see how they impact the seeker. In future positions it may describe someone you don’t know yet but who will be important in a forthcoming situation. 
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