Kings are associated with control, mastery, discipline and resolve.  Cups represent emotions, love, pleasures in life; matters pertaining to the unconscious, intuition and the inner planes, and the element of water.  The King of Cups is both a romantic, loving person who does not let his emotions lead him down the wrong path.  He has enough life experience to know that while he desires love and pleasure in life sometimes that can lead to unhealthy choices. 

Rachel:  "Storytelling, imagination, the power to inspire or heal others.  Leadership, with the implication of followers. 

Druid Craft:  "This card may indicate either a spiritual group or path concerned with ritual, or it may refer to a spiritual, therapeutic or cultural project.  Music and the performing arts, publishing, artistic endeavors and exhibitions - all these may be signified. 

The Druid Craft King of Cups sits calmly on his throne looking out to see.  He holds a chalice in his left hand, a harp rests against his throne and the head of an Irish Wolfhound is just visible behind the harp.  He seems to be both a poet and a leader - able to face the stormy seas of life with equanimity and wisdom.

The Speaker of Rivers shows a large multi-colored fish leading a school of smaller fish along the river.  On the right shore we see a bowl sitting atop a mound.  The bowl appears to be giving off some type of glow.  On the left shore are a cluster of buildings (based on actual I.M. Pei designs according to Rachel).  It seems as if the larger fish is leading the smaller ones along the middle path - keeping them from getting lost in the dreamland symbolized by the glowing bowl and the material world symbolized by the buildings.  The Speaker of Rivers is a leader and a teacher, able to combine a wide variety of interests, knowledge and ideas into a coherent whole. 

The sense I get from both these cards is one of compassionate and knowledgeable leadership.  Looking at the Speaker of Rivers I am struck by the notion that the large fish is a teacher, instructing the smaller fish on the ways of the world.  Her multi-colored skin makes her fascinating and draws the students to her.

Maybe the cards are trying to tell me that I have the potential to be the large multi-colored fish.  I can be the teacher to others.  This connects beautifully with the message I got from the Prince of Wands/Knower of Trees I drew yesterday.  Maybe finding a way to teach others, perhaps in a variety of ways, will allow me to reconnect to my passion in life.  I can feel my enthusiasm rising even as I think of it.