![]() His right hand holds a single cup forward in an offering gesture. In the RWS the horse backed knight is plodding slowly west/right which represents the future. The RWS deck reversed the Knight of Cups while keeping all other Knights the same as the Marseilles. In Marseilles Tarot decks the Knight is heading east/left which symbolises the past. The imagery of the card you are looking at should illustrate the mind set. The key theme with the Knight of Cups is one of being emotionally defensive. In the older Tarot decks, like the Marseilles, only the Knight of Swords is wearing armour and holding a weapon. The Rider-Waite-Smith (RWS) Tarot deck emphasised their defensive nature by cladding them in armour. ![]() The Chariot and Knights, with the exception of the Knight of Swords represent defence. Their display is purely one of defending their element. They wear simple, practical, armour without ceremonial, or rank defining, decoration. A Knight, just like The Chariot, cannot represent attack and should only be defensive. The numerological traits of the number 7 are rest, inaction, planning, analysing and waiting. As The Chariot is card number 7 of the Major Arcana we can assign any Knight a numerological attribute of 7 by proxy. They can be thought of as the Captains of their element, in this case Water, led by their leader The Charioteer who is warlord of all the elements. Tarot's Knights, like the Knight of Cups, are related to The Chariot.
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