Yes, I’ve been MIA. Work got super busy, and just as things were slowing down, we got a nor’easter/bomb cyclone that dumped over a foot of snow on us. We are still shoveling out, but I missed being here, so I’m back.
The Knight of Cups wears beautifully designed armor fashioned from gold that looks dramatic and eye-catching but that might not work so well in a battle. Our Knight wears a mask of gold that completely covers his eyes, with double wings and a stylized halo made of golden vines above and behind his head. He wears fancy epaulets made of gold on his shoulders and a stylized golden kilt with many strands of gold coins hanging like a fringe at the front closure. He has one hand on his heart, and the other hand holds a golden rose which is beginning to lose its petals. Beside him floats a dagger made of water, which is beginning to drip into a cup floating just below the dagger's point. The water in the cup appears to be sloshing about. The keywords for this card are emotional, brooding, artistic, and dreaming.
The True Black X of Pentacles shows a beautiful white elephant rearing up triumphantly and reaching upward with trunk and tusks, his hind legs upon a square raised platform of stacked gold bricks. Behind him are ten golden coins arranged in a circle along with two well-established trees with straight and thick trunks. The keywords for this card are prosperity, stability, family, and longevity.
Both of these cards hint at a sort of intensity of feelings that could be associated with the physical world. The Knight of Cups is a dreamer whose mind is filled with all kinds of exciting ideas and possibilities. However, because he is a Knight, he tends to carry his suit to an intensity that just might separate him from reality. Using Elemental Dignities to bring more understanding, we find that the rank of Knight corresponds to the Element of Fire (which is active and represents heat that separates and dry that shapes), and the suit of our Knight is Water (which is passive and represents cold that binds and wet that adapts), which has nothing in common with Fire. Our Knight of Cups is in conflict because his mind is filled with dreams and ideas and creations and elegant stories, yet he exists within a rank that is about bravery and passions and dominance and power. Oh, our Knight of Cups understands the passion part of this, just not the use of power to dominate.
The X of Pentacles tells us that we have worked hard and focused with diligence, successfully making it through the challenges presented in this cycle of the Minor Arcana cards. Our foundation is strong, and it might be time to begin visualizing some evolution that will build upon the wealth, health and security already created.
We are combining the elements of Fire, Water and Earth. As stated above, Fire and Water weaken each other. Fire (Knights) and Earth (Pentacles) are neutral; both represent dry that separates, but one is active and one is passive. Water (Cups) and Earth (Pentacles) support each other. They are both passive, and both represent cold that binds; that is as close as two elements can get without being clones of each other. We have one pair that weakens, one that is neutral, and one that supports. We just need to decide which direction that Fire/Earth pairing can be best used. Perhaps because we have done the necessary work with the necessary focus and we have used a long-term plan that looks to the future as well as the present, we can allow our Knight of Cups to bring enthusiasm, pleasure, and visions of an exciting future into our day.
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