Minor Arcana · Cups
Six of Cups
The memory
Upright meaning
Sweet memory and clarity. Possibly someone from the past, an old place, or recovering something you once had.
Reversed meaning
Living in the past, idealising what is gone.
What is in the picture
A child hands a cup filled with white flowers to a smaller child, in the courtyard of an old village. Five more cups hold flowers too. In the corner of the picture a guard is walking away. Everything here is safe and gentle, exactly the way a memory works: true, and slightly improved in the telling.
Love
An old flame returns, or a long friendship turns into love.
Career
An opportunity through an old contact or a former employer.
About this suit
Cups are about feeling, love and relationship. The inner world: what you feel, what you long for, and how you connect.
One thing you can do
Call someone from an earlier chapter of your life. But do not let that call become a reason not to live in this one.
Is Six of Cups a yes or a no?
Yes, and often involving a person or a place from the past coming back around.
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