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Minor Arcana · Suit of Cups · Court card
Knight of Cups
Knight · Cups
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightAn invitationA romantic advanceFollowing the heart
↓ ReversedSmooth talkEmpty promisesDuplicity
What it means
↑ Upright
He rides at a walk, not a charge, holding his cup out like an offering. He may be someone arriving with a proposal, an invitation or an open declaration of feeling, or he asks you to approach in the same way — gracefully, without force, letting what you bring speak for you. Weigh any advance by what it offers, not by its manners.
↓ Reversed
Graceful still, but the cup has become a prop. The reading here is trickery, subtlety and duplicity: an offer more polished than it is honest, whether it comes from someone else or from your own wish to please. Before accepting anything brought with this much charm, ask for the plain terms, and see whether they are given gladly.
What's on the card
A knight in armor rides a white horse at a measured pace, holding a cup out before him, with wings on his helmet. A river winds through the land behind, and fish are worked into his surcoat. The wings belong to Hermes, messenger of the gods, and Waite links them to the higher graces of the imagination: a dreamer and a bearer of offers, coming gently rather than on the attack.
Waite's meaning, 1910
Upright
Arrival, approach—sometimes that of a messenger; advances, proposition, demeanor, invitation, incitement.
Reversed
Trickery, artifice, subtlety, swindling, duplicity, fraud.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.