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.  

"An involvement with a psychic process has reached an end.  You've reached the completion of a phase in your psychic or spiritual growth.  You could be leaving a church or spiritual group or ending a time of disbelief in psychic phenomena.  It's important that you symbolize this rite of passage in a way that's meaningful to you." - Gail Fairfield

Interesting question.  I honestly don't know.  The world's resources just sounds so overwhelming.  Of course I can make that smaller by looking at my world's resources.  That does put things on a more manageable scale.  And what I sense from the reversed King of Cups or Sage of Relationships is that my internal need for emotional connections and support networks is what I use to sustain my life.  Whenever I need someone to cry with, to vent to or to just commiserate with, there is someone I can call.  Friends and family provide me with the love and pleasure I need.

Some of my favorite memories are connected to the joy I feel doing things with my hubby or friends.  The laughter and jokes that accompany any outing with friends and family are what nourishes me when things get bleak.  The King of Cups is often described as being the healer or counselor card and what is more healing than laughter.  

As I watch people in my life grow older and deal with the complications that often accompany aging, the one constant I've noticed among those who remain vibrant and active is social connections.  Those that keep their connections with others and nurture their outside interests seem to maintain their vitality and their wits.  My mother-in-law had a tendency to isolate herself over the years and as a result she doesn't have a large enough support network to help her stay alert and vibrant.  She is losing her language skills and is disconnect from much of the world outside her door.  We can see the difference when we are able to have company visit her.  This is a lesson I have vowed to remember.  I want to make sure I don't gradually isolate myself over the years or I risk experiencing that same sad and lonely old age.