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Sensitive and understanding this person would make a good counsellor. A shoulder to cry on, a patient listener and sympathetic ear.
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He represents an emotionally experienced, well balanced and socially confident person. The King has the benefit of experience and is unafraid of the wild and deep emotional waters of life. The key difference between the youth in the 4 of Cups and the King of Cups is emotional maturity. The attitudes displayed in these two cards are contrastingly different with the youth reluctant to engage with 4 cups of water and the King unafraid of a vast, stormy sea. His right foot forward almost as if he's prepared to "dip a toe in the water". He sits in a safe and secure place on a throne on a solid, square, rock surrounded by a rough sea. The RWS deck's King of Cups faces front with his head turned to the right, or east, representing the future.
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In the 4 of Cups we see someone who is unwilling to accept the next emotional step on from the care free 3 Of Cups to a stable and lasting relationship offered by the 4th cup. The number 4 is symbolic of a rigid structure which is static and safe but its unchanging form can be also be stagnant and boring. Perhaps past relationship issues have left this emotionally inexperienced youth guarded about engaging in any new relationships. Like the Ace of Cups there is a cloud with a hand offering a new, 4th, cup. The Rider Waite Smith (RWS) deck first illustrated the 4 of Cups as a young male, arms and legs crossed defensively, sitting under a tree looking petulantly at 3 cups before him. The same element and numerology can be found in the 4 of Cups. We can however link Tarot's Kings to their supreme ruler and card number 4 of the Major Arcana, The Emperor, which would give any King a numerological attribute of 4 by proxy. On the surface we have the male ruler of the elemental domain of Water but not much else to go on. Court cards, like the King of Cups, are unnumbered which makes using numerology to unlock their basic symbology more challenging.