Welcome to Tarot for Scholars, a resource that helps you weave the deep wisdom of tarot into your daily life and work. In each post, we offer reflections and prompts for exploring your own inner world and unlocking the unique creative power of your scholarship.
Knight of Cups
About this card
The Knight of Cups pursues the facets of human experience that are “watery” in nature: imaginative fantasies, emotional bonds, and fluid absorption in affective experience. The Knight’s romantic quest may be more introspective than pragmatic, more about wandering than about the strategic pursuit of a goal. This receptive, reflective energy tends to absorb and reflect, rather than build and direct through active effort. To realize the Knight’s dreams in the physical world, other elements must be incorporated.
Other interpretations
Margy’s cards, clockwise from top left: Radiant Tarot; New Chapter Tarot; Cosmic Slumber Tarot; Shining Tribe Tarot; Elemental Tarot; Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea; Spolia Tarot; Tarot of the Spirit.
Helen’s cards, clockwise from top left: Moon & Stars Tarot; Light Seer’s Tarot; Japaridze Tarot; Canes Arcanae; Star Spinner Tarot; Muse Tarot; Tarot of Mystical Moments; Forest of Enchantment Tarot.
Questions and prompts
Who in your life most embodies the archetype of the Knight of Cups? (Is it you?) What behaviors or attitudes in this person exemplify the Knight, in your view?
How do you envision the Knight of Cups functioning productively within a scholarly process? What might an unproductive (excessive or unbalanced) use of this energy look like? Reflect on the benefits and downsides of the Knight of Cups energy for the scholar.
Do the dreamy, imaginative, emotional ways of the Knight of Cups come easily to you? Reflect on how and where you could invite more of Knight of Cups energy into your scholarly process if you think it could be fruitful.
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Yours in scholarship,
HELEN SWORD is a scholar, poet, award-winning teacher, and founder of the WriteSPACE, an international writing community with members in 30+ countries. Her research-based books, articles, and online tools empower scholarly writers to write more clearly, confidently, prolifically, and with greater pleasure.
Visit Helen’s website here.
MARGY THOMAS is the creator of ScholarShape, a body of work dedicated to elucidating the patterns of Story-Argument across genres, disciplines, and life itself. Through services and DIY resources, Margy helps scholars use Story-Argument patterns to design their work — and to find its deeper meaning and higher purpose.
Visit Margy’s website here.
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