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Minor Arcana · Suit of Cups · Court card
King of Cups
King · Cups
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightCalm authorityGenerous counselFeeling mastered
↓ ReversedDouble-dealingMoods as weaponsTaking too much
What it means
↑ Upright
The sea moves under his throne, a ship on one side and a dolphin leaping on the other, and he keeps his seat. He may be a steady, responsible person disposed to help you — a mentor or an adviser — or he describes what is asked of you: feel fully, stay level, and judge on others' behalf as well as your own.
↓ Reversed
Calm can be a mask. Reversed, Waite's king is a double-dealing man — exacting, unjust, taking more than he gives — and the card can mean such a person, or your own feelings bent to getting your way. Be wary of help that always leaves a debt behind it, and do not use your own composure as a lever on others.
What's on the card
The king sits on a stone throne that floats on a rough sea, a great cup in his right hand and a short scepter in his left, a fish-shaped amulet hanging at his neck. The waves never reach him, though a ship and a leaping dolphin share the water around him. The sea is feeling at its most powerful, and the dry throne above it is mastery: emotion fully felt but not allowed to sweep him away.
Waite's meaning, 1910
Upright
Fair man, man of business, law, or divinity; responsible, disposed to oblige the Querent; also equity, art and science, including those who profess science, law and art; creative intelligence.
Reversed
Dishonest, double-dealing man; roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal, pillage, considerable loss.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.