What does Knight of Cups mean for career and work?

Knight of Cups in a career reading: what it indicates about your work, your direction, and the move to make next.

In career and work

Creative and vocational work. Following an inclination rather than an incentive.

It favours work chosen for its appeal: the field entered because it is beautiful, the project taken for love. Pisces makes it imaginative and imprecise, which suits the arts and suits deadlines badly.

The practical reading is that enthusiasm is the resource here and structure is the missing one. Pair it with something Saturnine and it produces a great deal; leave it alone and it produces a good start.

Upright

An offer made from the heart. Romance, an invitation, a creative proposal.

Follow what moves you. Grace and idealism in action, and the card genuinely means action: the Knight is moving, which distinguishes him from the Page's feeling that has not gone anywhere yet.

As a person he is warm, attentive and demonstrative. What he offers is real at the moment he offers it, and the tradition is careful to put it that way rather than more warmly.

Reversed

Moodiness, unrealistic promises, somebody in love with being in love.

The last is the most precise. What is being enjoyed is the feeling rather than the person, and the person is interchangeable in a way that becomes apparent later.

Also read for feeling that never becomes action: the intention announced repeatedly and never enacted. Reversed, the horse stops and only the declaration remains.

Keywords

Upright: romance, invitation, idealism, following the heart, charm

Reversed: moodiness, empty promises, unrealistic, inaction

Journal prompts

What am I being invited into?
Where is my idealism useful, and where is it a way of avoiding specifics?

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