Six of Cups
Six of Cups
Number 6 Water
A cups card: feeling, love, and what you are carrying.
Upright
memorykindnessthe pastinnocence
Something from before, returning kindly. The Six of Cups is memory, old friends, the place you grew up, a simple generosity between people who have no angle. It is warm and it is a bit sentimental, and both of those are the point.
Reversed
nostalgiastuck in the pastgrowing up
The past has become a place you live. Reversed, this is nostalgia for a version of things that was not as good as you remember, an ex who keeps reappearing, or the necessary and uncomfortable business of outgrowing where you came from.
What is in the picture
A child handing another a cup of flowers in a walled garden. Five more cups of flowers around them. Everything in the picture is small and safe.
What it says about…
The line a reading leads with, depending on what you said you were asking about.
A bit of everything
Upright: something from before comes back, and it is kind.
Reversed: the past is taking up more room than the present.
Love and relationships
Upright: an old connection, or new love with an easy familiarity.
Reversed: comparing them to someone who is not here.
Work and direction
Upright: an old contact, or work that returns you to why you started.
Reversed: a role you have outgrown and stay in from fondness.
Money and security
Upright: help from family, or something owed being returned.
Reversed: financial arrangements from an older version of your life.
Me, honestly
Upright: be kind to who you were. They were doing their best with less.
Reversed: you are nostalgic for a time that was also hard.
A decision I am stuck on
Upright: yes, if it honours where you came from.
Reversed: you are choosing the familiar because it is familiar.
If this card leads
Ring the person you keep meaning to ring.
As a yes or no
Upright, it reads as yes. Reversed, maybe.
“I can be fond of where I came from without living there.”
Draw it in a reading
The meaning above, applied to something you are actually asking about.
