Courts, Cups
Knight of Cups
Follow the invitation
A feeling or image can draw you toward a meaningful encounter. Give the invitation an honest response while leaving room to learn what the experience actually contains.
What are you drawn toward, and what do you know about it?
Correspondences
- Element within element
- Fire of Water
- Suit element
- Water
- Sphere · Hermetic Qabalah
- Chokmah
- Zodiacal span
- 20° Aquarius to 20° Pisces
Sources
The elemental combination and court span belong to the court descriptions. The two elements name the court’s mode and its suit, respectively.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 162 ↗
The Book of Thoth · Part III, Knight of Cups ↗
Spans use a starting boundary inclusive and an ending boundary exclusive. Older texts may describe the same interval with ordinal degree numbers.
Symbols
In the Book T design
A rider on a white horse holds a cup with a crab; a peacock forms the crest.
Book T (1912) · printed p. 162 ↗Two accounts
Book T: Knight of Cups.
Thoth: Knight of Cups.
Book T’s p. 159 footnote distinguishes the mounted father from the charioted son: its card headings call them Knight and King. Thoth calls them Knight and Prince. Read the figure and elemental role before equating court names across decks.