Six of Cups
Secret whisperA flower in a cup, a child’s gift — the past returns, tender.
Upright meaning
Upright keywordsnostalgia, childhood, innocence, kindness
Sweet memories, simple kindness and reconnection — with your past, or with someone from it.
Reversed meaning
Reversed keywordsliving in the past, naivety, moving forward, outgrowing
Clinging to the past is holding you back. Honour what was, then let yourself grow.
About the suit of Cups
Cups belong to Water: feelings, love, friendship, intuition and the imagination. They show what is happening in the heart and in your relationships.
Reading the Sixs of the tarot
Sixes restore harmony: recovery, generosity and finding balance again.
In Waite’s own words (1910)
From A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, public domain. Original English text.
Divinatory meaning: A card of the past and of memories, looking back, as--for example--on childhood; happiness, enjoyment, but coming rather from the past; things that have vanished. Another reading reverses this, giving new relations, new knowledge, new environment, and then the children are disporting in an unfamiliar precinct.
Reversed: The future, renewal, that which will come to pass presently.
The picture
Children in an old garden, their cups filled with flowers.
