Six of Cups upright
A child offers another child a cup of flowers, in a courtyard scene that reads like memory. The Six of Cups is the soft return to what once was tender.
Tend the old connection. A reconnection with someone from earlier in life, a return to a hometown - the card affirms these without sentimentalising them.
Six of Cups reversed
Reversed, the nostalgia is sticky - living in the past rather than visiting it. Or an old pattern repeating because it's familiar.
Keywords
- nostalgia
- childhood
- innocence
- reconnection
- sweet memory
Where this reading comes from
Meaning authored from the Rider-Waite-Smith reader tradition rather than copied from any single modern source.
Common questions
- What does Six of Cups mean?
- Childhood window - nostalgia, the kindness of the past. A child offers another child a cup of flowers, in a courtyard scene that reads like memory. The Six of Cups is the soft return to what once was tender.
- What does Six of Cups mean reversed?
- Reversed, the nostalgia is sticky - living in the past rather than visiting it. Or an old pattern repeating because it's familiar.
- Is Six of Cups a good card to draw?
- Six of Cups belongs to the cups suit, which deals with feeling, relationship and attachment. No card is simply good or bad; what it means depends on the question and where it lands in the spread.
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