Lost in Archetypes

Knight of Cups

First of all, yes, I realize it's been more than five months since my last post. I encountered a few hiccups in my life, and unfortunately this blog was one of the first things to suffer. But now I'm back in action, baby!

Anyway. I pulled the Knight of Cups several days ago and have waited to post about it because it's taken severeal days of meditation to get the most out of it, really get a handle on what it means to me at this time in my life particularly. Cups represent emotion, love, creativity. Sometimes communication, particularly in this card. Learntarot.com says its keywords are: romantic, imaginitive, sensitive, refined, and introspective.

Unlike the rest of the knights, the Knight of Cups is all stagnance; sitting on a horse that is trotting slowly if indeed it is moving at all. Everything looks weighed down, flat, listless. There is a sense of an inability to move foward, as though he is hanging on to something. One interpretation of this, going along with the above keywords, could be that he is reflecting, taking his time, sucking the marrow out of life, lost in thought and pondering his own self-improvement. But what this card frequently represents for me (and what I think is the most important for me right now) is communication.

The knight has a winged helmet, like Mercury, the Roman messenger god. And as he is at a stand-still, one would venture that the flow of communication has stopped, or at least pause. Or (and here's the kicker), that it should. That more reflection and less chatter should be present in one's life. This is what I think I have to learn from this card.