- Page: "Wow, look at this! Would you like to stay with me and keep me company? Or would I do better to throw you back into your watery home? So much fun we could have together...".

- Knight: "I am in love. Even if she is unaware of my feelings, I must go to her and offer her my life. It has no meaning without her":

- Queen: "Mmm... wonder if I could maybe give this a little more flair... Is it original enough to show others or should I work on it a bit more?".

- King: "Oh, it is a chore to have to pent up my emotions in order to be a good and fair ruler. But what would this all come to if I couldn't keep a tight grip on myself?".

Now, one thing I notice about this family, apart from the flowing water/emotions, is that both Page and Queen seem very self absorbed, while King and Knight are more socially oriented.

Another association is that Page and King are surrounded by more turbulent waters (though high and dry themselves), while knight and queen have more quiet flows to deal with. In fact, the Knight has hardly a meandering little stream to cross. The queen is the only one not afraid to get her toes wet, though she hardly notices.

One more: Page and Queen strike me as the most creative members of all families, pure imagination and dreaminess. I do not see the Queen as a mother at all (even though she might be): her whole creativity seems focused on her art. So I see both as extremely artsy people: the queen could in fact get her living out of it, while the page may point to budding or recently discovered talent in this field.

Knight and King seem to deal more with the emotional side of the suit. I see the Knight as the first, blinding, deep and entrancing kind of love, while the King deals more with the compassionate and understanding side of love.




A big difference with Robin Wood's is that his Cups seem to be all by the sea: the King on a rocky escarpment, watching the pounding waves at his feet and his tunic getting wet. The Queen is at the beach shore, so the waves lap gently at her feet. This Knight actually crosses the waves on a seahorse! It makes more sense to me that he should be surrounded by frothy waters, since he is the one dealing with passionate love. The Page is still some distance from the water, probably protected still from the stronger emotions she has yet to know. And she has a painter's implement hanging from her waist (I love the fact that pages are girls in this deck).

The skies are specially beautiful in these cards: rather than the blue or gray of RW, they all look like sunsets or dawns, and the Queen even enjoys the company of seagulls.

The fact that the queen's cup in the robin wood deck is covered with a handkerchief, perphaps might say something about her psychic qualities, as in the Rider Waite deck where the cups are rather large and the Queen looks like she is in a trance i.e. in the Rider Waite deck.
To me the King looks like he is going to drink from that cup rather than offering love - dont know, the fact that it is a cup and not a chalice, gives me more of a drinking impression rather than an offer for love and understanding.

Water is the theme here THE PAGE OF CUPS he hides nothing he cant because he is very emotional THE KNIGHT OF CUPS he is the only one that his feet are not near water he will hide his emotion at all costs THE QUEEN OF CUPS is daydreaming her hopes and desires are not being met THE KING OF CUPS is cold and uncaring when you put them side by side they are turned away from each other maybe his emotions and feelings lie elsewhere

i see your on top of your lessons, good for you!  yes, the cups are very emotional folk.  

commonly water represents life, spirit, spiritism etc so its no wonder this cups represent the human condition be it good for them or not.  

In the Tarot of Dreams, interestingly, this family are sea people. They live underwater so they are completely immersed in their feelings and emotions. The King has his head above water and basically is the one that takes the feelinsg and translates them into actions in the real world.

The others are completely immersed in water. The Queen lives deep in the sea world, like a mermaid. The Knight actually rides one of the sea animals that looks like a horse ( I dont know the name in English)... And the Page is under water as well and looks as if he or she is listening to some voices and is surprised at what she is hearing...

I wish I could post the 4 figures but I only found the Queen from the Tarot of Dreams.