What does Knight of Cups mean reversed?

The Thoth Tarot is traditionally read without reversed cards: the reader judges from the cards around it whether a card is well or ill dignified. This is its ill-dignified or blocked reading: Disappointed idealism, promises not kept, unstable emotionality.

What are the Kabbalah and astrology correspondences of Knight of Cups?

In the Golden Dawn system Knight of Cups corresponds to the sephirah Chokmah, the element Water and 21° Aquarius – 20° Pisces in astrology.

Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana

Knight of Cups

idealism · romance · grace · sensitivity · inspiration

A reflective starting point

What is Knight of Cups asking you to look at?

Meaning changes with the position, the surrounding cards and your question. Take what follows as a language, not a verdict.

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Upright

Accept the invitation or the inspiration: the feeling asks to be expressed.

At first sight

A romantic, gentle and dreamy person, or the arrival of an emotional or artistic proposal. It points to invitations, declarations, idealistic enthusiasms.

Within you

The side of the personality moved by ideals and feelings: enthusiastic and generous but not very constant, more in love with the image of love than with its daily effort.

On the path

Fire of Water, the Yod of He, referred to Chokmah: the impetus that sets the waters in motion, like rain and springs. He rules from 21° Aquarius to 20° Pisces, joining vision and compassion.

The shadow

Ill-dignified, he is lazy, sensual, not very sincere, inconstant.

Reversed

In the Thoth tradition a reversed card is read through its dignity with the neighbouring cards; this is its shadow side.

Disappointed idealism, promises not kept, unstable emotionality.

In love, work and spirit

Love. A romantic suitor, emotional proposals, declarations.

Work. Creative or artistic proposals, projects inspired by ideals.

Spirit. The Grail knight following an ideal of beauty.

Correspondences

Chokmah · Water · 21° Aquarius – 20° Pisces

Crowley's note

Crowley portrays a winged knight on a white horse surging forward, holding a cup from which a crab emerges, with a peacock beside him: the sensitive grace of water in motion.