Arcana-bending Knight?
Hi all,
I just wanted to share these ideas, but know, please, that these ideas represent how the cards speak to me, so you may not see them the same as I, so, with that in mind, here's my contribution to this thread.
Knight of Cups
Cups is represents Water -- It's zodialogical signs are Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces.
The energy of water is flowing and various intangibles play a large part in the energy of water. It's an element of deep emotion that can range from the exteme compassion to self-pity.
Water respresents the dreamers, mystics, artists and anyone who is in touch with the deeper dimensions and people who tend to need time alone in the inner realm.
The Knight, as in all suits, is a messenger, and he carries the news of some immediate importance. In the case of the Knight of Cups, its' most likely to be news related to emotional or spiritual issue, something is about to change emotionally and there is an air of expectancy regarding his message; perhaps the person for whom the card is selected it's a marriage proposal, or promotion at work or something.
Incidently, the Swords is similar to Cups in the sense that Swords is related to the emotions and (the Knight of ) an approaching difference of opinion with someone close to the reader, either a business partner or lover, brother or sister or spouse or parent.
Here are two suits related to the intangible, water (Cups) and air (Swords) and they are both on white horses! Death, too, is on a white horse! ... and ...
And of course, card 13 powerfully suggests a putting away of the old. Something deep and personal or emotional is about to be turned away. Superficial changes won't get the job done. (Note the King lying dead beneath the horse -- suggestion, the end of established or previous authority)
The Death card is related to Scorpio, which is the ruler of life's ultimate mysteries including, I guess, sex, death (the end of past authority, law, tradition) rebirth and regeneration (the rising sun and its growing energy).
Another note, in each of the knight cards you see only what each suit is related to: that is to say, Swords, an air sign, shows blowing winds; Wands, a fire sign, shows a wand being held like a lance, although I'm not sure how the element of fire is represented here, unless it's in the fact that the horse is the same color as the wand; Pentacles, an earth sign, shows a plowed earth in the background, and Cups, a water sign, has the river.
I believe that all four suits are represented in the number 13 card, since it's message applies to everyone eventually, although I can't exactly tell you how they are all represented ... I'd like to see if anyone else see's all four suits represented on this card.
So, did the Knight of Wands grow up an move into the majors from the minors? I doubt that. If the knight "grows up" to be anything, he would the King of the suit where he served as knight. Death was never a knight, or anything else for that matter, it has just always been, and will always be. The only real constant in the universe is change.
This is my first post on this forum, although I've been reading and learning for some time, now.
Peace to you all.
Lilly