Six of Cups
Minor Arcana · Cups · Water
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- Nostalgia
- Childhood
- Sweetness
- Memories
- General
- The scent of the past. Happy memories, reunions, simple and sincere gestures. A comforting sweetness, sometimes a step backward.
- Love & relationships
- An old love returning, a tender and innocent relationship, or a childhood bond becoming more.
- Career & money
- Reconnecting with a former colleague, returning to a beloved trade, a gift or help from the past.
- Advice
- Draw on what did you good before, without staying there. Give simply.
Reversed
- Clinging to the past
- Idealization
- Immaturity
- Letting go
- General
- The past holds on. Idealizing what was, refusing to grow up, or finally breaking with a sterile nostalgia.
- Love & relationships
- Comparing everything to a former love, or replaying childhood patterns in the couple.
- Career & money
- Attachment to old methods, refusal of novelty, a career frozen in what used to work.
- Advice
- Keep the sweetness, leave the melancholy. The present has its flowers too.
What you see on the card
- A child offers a cup full of flowers to a smaller one
- Six cups filled with white flowers
- A village courtyard with old houses
- A guard walking away in the background
- A golden light of memory
How the card works
Cups (Water). Water is what we feel: love, friendship, dreams, nostalgia. Cups speak of the heart, of bonds between people, and of inner life.
Six. Harmony restored: exchange, transition, what flows again.