The Tarot of Eli, LLC-Court Cards: Thoth Tarot- Knight of Cups & The Modern Witch Tarot-King of Cups

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Lord of the waves and waters; The King of the Hosts of the Sea; King of Nymphs or Undines.

In the Thoth Tarot the Kings are called Knights, who are armored sitting astride their powerful "Spirit Force" steeds. This is because of the YHVH formula (Tetragrammaton) used by Crowley. You'll find this explained in depth in Crowley's book of Thoth.  The Thoth Knight of Cups is known as the fiery part of water, this may sound strange to the neophyte; However, the fiery part of water is the Power of Solution. He is amiable in a passive way, as is solution in water.  

The Modern  Witch Tarot shows its King of Cups, sitting on the Granit Throne (showing his earthly ties) that has a scalloped shaped back,  as if he was Poseidon or Neptune God of the Seas. Around him are jumping fishes, and wild seas, emphasizing his fertile and fecund nature. This is a highly intuitive and secretive man of great passion.  In business he follows "hunches" with great success while being quite ruthless. He is intense, often brooding and a fervent lover. He draws strength from treating others with kindness and tenderness, being truly in touch with his emotions. The Poet, the romantic, the intuitive. These personalities are a pleasure to be around.

The  Thoth Knight/King of Cups is not unlike the fiery attack of rain or springs. He rules the Zodiac from 21st degree of Aquarius to the 20th degree of Pisces. All Tarot Kings Authority radiate from the 2nd Sephiroth-Chokmah-wisdom. The Armor, the  bright wings, and the leaping white charger, all represent the most active aspects of water. The crab represents the aggressive nature of water and its regenerative state, as crabs individually regenerate by shedding their hard outer shell. The Knight of Cups totem is the Peacock (bottom right corner), as the very nature of active water is its brilliance. The Peacock is also the totem of the Peacock God Myths of which are often seen in Hindu mythology . However, in Western Mythology the peacock is associated with the Greek god Argus. Who was a huge many eyed Warrior.

Whether those fixed unseeing eyes on a Peacock's feathers are the tragic eyes of Goddess Hera’s favourite spymaster, Argus, remains questionable. But the story, so poignant in its emotional ebb and flow, that for echelons of time, made people look at the peacock as bird symbolizing the transforming power of love and trust between mistress and bondman. As the story goes, Hera had posted her hundred eyed giant to keep an eye on her cheating husband Zeus, who was at the time thinking of indulging himself with Io, a river nymph. Zeus, clever enough to take and manipulate himself into the role of the king of the God’s could easily solve this problem of being under constant observation. Therefore, Zeus put Argus into a rich dreamy state of sleep and chopped off his head. This put Hera in a deep funk. The inconsolable Hera, placed each of the delicate eyes of Argus in the tail feathers of the peacocks that pulled her chariot. This was probably to keep his protective eye and his spirit close to her, also to remind her of his trust and loyalty, maybe also a bit about his incompetence despite his giant size- in the world of Gods. Scholars really don't seem to know. However, this myth explains Argus's and the Tarot King's utter devotion to the Grail/Creatrix.

In the Indian/Hindu context, peacocks have layered and complex roles in legends and myths. The one element that remains unchanged through it all is the belief that the peacock was created from the feathers of Garuda, the giant mythical bird who is Vishnu’s mount. It’s beauty, fearlessness of snakes and power over time are traits that the peacock inherits from this mythical creation. The most interesting and metaphoric representation the peacock has in Hindu mythology is the link that it has with time. Garuda carries Vishnu through time, preserving and maintaining a balance in a cosmos that tends to lapse into chaos as easily as a blink of Vishnu’s eye. As a default of being created out of Garuda’s feathers, the peacock is able to break through the cyclical nature of Earthy or human time as envisaged by the Hindu Mystics. The peacock does this by devouring snakes! Yes, that is because snakes are symbolic of cyclical time in Hindu Myths. And it is absolutely true that peafowls can eat poisonous snakes without obvious disruption to their digestive system.

Often many mythological god traits are represented in one Thoth Tarot Card. The Knight of Cups is no exception for in Western Myth, this card also represents Dewi, the ancient lord of the Abyss, who is also latter known as Bran or Bron the blessed who later became the Christianized Fisher King or Rich Fisher named Bron. He represents ageless power and strength, a reliable protector of the needy with a quality of irresistible force underlying a calm surface.

The fluorescence characteristics of the person's personality, born between Feb. 19 to Mar 20th, signified by this card are surprisingly passive, as dictated by the Zodiacal attribution. With the qualities of Venus, s/he is a graceful dilettante (a weak Jupiter) who is amiable and quick to respond to attraction but the stimulation fades away as s/he is not very enduring. Emotionally triggered by outside influence, this person has no real material depth of character. The Knight of Cups has an undeniable innocence and purity that is hardly clouded by their ill dignified sensuality, idleness, and untruthful nature (a story teller). In fact, he may be so superficial that it is hard to reach any depth in him. But in truth, he is a really "nice guy or gal".

To be sure, there is great difficulty in rightly mating water with Fire, as the swift violent nature of fire (Will to Force) ill suits a character that is naturally as placid as water (Will to Form). It is a rare persona indeed that has mastered the balance, so most often we find this personality mismanaging their affairs and unless good fortune attends them through the Jupiter connection, their career and life is littered with a trail of failure and disaster. There is a mental "civil war" here, and this can lead to depressions, and/or schizophrenia. The abuse of stimulants, alcohol, and narcotics is not uncommon with such a personality. As always the case, the surrounding cards will help the Reader decide the positive or ill dignified nature of this card and often within the reading is the recommended nature of correcting the unwanted behavior of this ill dignity. All in all, a very fun bubbly, bright person to be around---as long as you show attraction, to stimulate his/her attention. Good fun for short visits!

The Modern Witch Tarot-King of Cups, although a modernization of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot, shares all the descriptions applied to the Thoth Card.

Some of the modern personalities associated with the Knight of Cups/King of Cups Tarot  Card are: 

Sonny Bono, Mia Farrow, and Burt Reynolds. However, there is something in this card that engenders the likes of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison all of whom sport more depth than this card displays. This might be because this card also represents the Myth of Dewi, the ancient lord of the Abyss, who is also known as Bran the blessed who later became the Christianized Fisher King or Rich Fisher named Bron. He represents ageless power and strength, a reliable protector of the needy with a quality of irresistible force underlying a calm surface.

WHEN THE KNIGHT/KING OF CUPS IS THROWN DURING A READING, IT IMPLIES:

• The optimist.
• Issues with family and/or relationships.
• The Spirit of Water; intuitive.
• One has attained their position of authority by listening to their conscientious, by action and looking ahead into life.
• Becoming aware that a psychic process in one’s life has come to an end.
• Releasing and old emotion by realizing it has run its course and is no longer operative in one’s life.
• The ability to love. 
• A counselor or caregiver who is creative and imaginative.
• A seductive personality that is good in the art of love.
• A powerful, dominating person. 

If ill defined by the surrounding cards, it implies:

• Seductibility.
• Duplicity.
• Instability.
• Helper syndrome.

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