The Queen of Cups is focusing on feelings and emotional matters. She has a gentle, receptive and passive nature and she can be a great helper, healer and counselor. Ill-dignified, the Queen of Cups is the personification of the drama queen. The Knight of Cups is emotional, romantic, compassionate. He can be a helper or a mediator. In his negative manifestation, he can be emotionally unstable, unfaithful, obsessive and manipulative. The combination of the Queen of Cups and the Knight of Cups shows passive, gentle and romantic energies around a situation.
To understand the elemental relationships between the cards, we should always take into account their actual meaning. The elements of the cards are Water (Queen of Cups) and Water (Knight of Cups). The elements are neutral and friendly to each other, but they can lead to excessive passivity or inertia, not being able to make a move that would bring drastic change. With a high amount of water energy, a situation may need to reach a certain emotional maturity, before it can be changed and transformed, however in this case, the sense is that the persons involved are enjoying healing, loving and romantic influences.