Six of Cups Tarot Card Meaning
Keywords: nostalgia · memories · innocence · kindness
What you see on the card
A person in a red hood bends down to hand a cup holding a white flower to a small child. Around them are other cups also filled with white flowers, in the courtyard of an old castle.
Six of Cups upright
The sweet scent of memory: an old friend, a familiar place, a gift from the past bringing warmth and comfort
Six of Cups reversed
Stuck in nostalgia, measuring the present against a rose-tinted memory of how things used to be
In love and relationships
In love, the Six of Cups brings the past forward: an old flame, a childhood friend, a sweet memory, or the simple kindness of early love. It can be warm and healing. Reversed, it warns of idealising the past and measuring the present against it.
In career and money
At work, it can point to returning to an old skill, project or employer, or to work involving children, care or creativity. With money, a gift or help from the past may appear.
As advice
As advice: take the warmth of the past with you without trying to live there. Ask what that memory teaches you about what you need now.
In a reading, a card is never read alone: its position, its orientation and the cards beside it change what it says.
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