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The King of Cups card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck

Cups

King of Cups

steadiness · emotional maturity · calm

Upright

A throne on a rough sea, and he isn't even wet. The King is feeling that has been made trustworthy: the person who stays kind and clear in a situation that would knock most of us sideways.

Reversed

Reversed, calm is doing the work of suppression. Nothing is felt out loud, and it all leaks out sideways a fortnight later.

If this is your card this month

Where are you being composed instead of honest?

A card is a prompt rather than a forecast. It doesn't know what will happen, and the useful part is what you do with the question it hands you. We make that case at more length in not a prediction, a mirror.

Where this card came from

If King of Cups arrived on a postcard, it was drawn for you for that full moon, and the reflection on the back was written from what it means. And if it didn't, well — that's the other thing we do here: a card and a reflection in your mailbox every full moon.

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