By Sarah Taylor
Six weeks ago, the Weekend Tarot Reading of April 1 featured the following cards: King of Cups, Seven of Cups, The World. This weekend, we have a reading with some parallels: the King again as the first card, the Six of Cups takes the place of the Seven, and another transformational major arcana card in the appearance of Death.
It feels like there is a revisiting of some form of experience, whether inner or outer, underpinned by the King, whose wisdom seems to oversee events in both.
This is what I had to say about the King of Cups last time:
“The King of Cups refers to our emotional natures when we align them with the flow of life. By doing this, we are fully in our feelings, but we are not dominated by them, nor do they dominate us; we do not shy from them, nor are we engulfed by them. There is a foundation to our experience that is unchanging, even while waves might lap, undulate, and crash around us.”
The King represents emotional wisdom in action; as the masculine card in the court couple, the King is primarily about doing while the Queen’s domain is being. Here, the presence of the King is calling us to step into the highest ideal that we hold for ourselves in terms of the expression of love in our world. Emotions either come from a place of love or of fear. The King is an invitation to see something from a more elevated perspective, no matter what is going on around us.