Six of Cups
nostalgia · childhood · a gift · old friends
Card art: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, for A. E. Waite. Public domain.
The suit of Cups
In a few words
- nostalgia
- childhood
- a gift
- old friends
A child handing a flower-filled cup to another. Memories, innocence, kindness from the past returning.
Upright
- Everything
- A child handing a flower-filled cup to another. Memories, innocence, kindness from the past returning.
- Love
- An old flame, a childhood friend, or love with the sweetness of early days.
- Work
- Returning to an old workplace or skill. Help from someone who knew you when.
- Money
- A gift, an inheritance, money from family or the past. Receive it with grace.
- Myself
- Your younger self has something to tell you. Listen without embarrassment.
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.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 214
Reversed
- Everything
- Stuck in the past, or a memory that keeps you from the present.
- Love
- Clinging to how it was. Or an old wound reopening in a new relationship.
- Work
- Living on old glories. Update the skill; the world moved.
- Money
- Family money with strings, or nostalgia spending. Look forward.
- Myself
- Growing up is allowed. Keep the sweetness, drop the child's fears.
The future, renewal, that which will come to pass presently.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 214
The card, as Waite described it
Children in an old garden, their cups filled with flowers.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 214
The plain-word meanings on this page were written for ShreeJyoti and are still under review.