Tarot · Cups
Six of Cups
- memory
- childhood
- innocence
The picture
In an old courtyard a boy hands a small girl a cup full of white flowers, with more cups of flowers standing around them.
The meaning
The Six of Cups leads back into an old garden. The tradition reads it as memory, childhood and the kindness of small gestures. It stands for the familiar, for old friends and for an innocence that can be found again. Waite links it with things that have passed.
Reversed
Reversed, it is read as clinging too much to the past, or saying goodbye to an old picture.
In love
In love it is read as tender familiarity, an old love or a reunion.
At work
At work it stands for trusted contacts, helpfulness and work with children.
As your card of the day
A happy memory may surface today. Perhaps you will get in touch with someone from the old days.
The Six of Cups stands for small kindnesses. Give someone something today for no reason at all.
Cups belong to water. By tradition they stand for feelings, relationships and whatever moves us inside.
Picture: Pamela Colman Smith, Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, 1909, public domain (Wikimedia Commons).