King of Cups

Upright

Mastery of feeling in the world — steady under emotional pressure, the person others come to in a crisis.

Reversed

Emotions managed so tightly they've gone underground, or moodiness with power behind it.

Its element

Water — feeling, attachment, grief, the things that move you whether or not you approve. Water finds the low ground every time.

Air of it — the element pointed outward and put to work. Kings get called authoritative; the useful version is simply someone who has decided, and can say why.

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