Six of Cups
Minor Arcana · Cups · Memories · Innocence · Reunion
The Scene and Its Symbols
In the courtyard of an old manor, a child hands a cup of flowers to a younger girl. A tender, nostalgic scene — memories, innocence, childhood, and the warm things that come visiting from the past.
Reading by Number and Suit
Cups carry the element of water — emotion, love, relationships, and intuition. They appear often in questions of the heart. A reading heavy with Cups suggests the crux of the matter is the flow of feeling, not logic or circumstance.
Six is the number of recovery and harmony. The turbulence of five passes and balance returns — giving and receiving, sharing, and reconciliation with what came before.
Upright Meaning
Keywords — Memories · Innocence · Reunion
A card of nostalgia and innocent memories. A happy reunion or a heartwarming gift may find you.
💞 Love · Relationships
A reunion with an old flame, or feelings as pure as first love revive. Someone long familiar may suddenly look new.
💼 Work · Money
A past connection or old experience returns as unexpected opportunity. Former colleagues, old clients, a long-shelved hobby — flip through the back pages of your résumé.
Reversed Meaning
Keywords — Living in the past · Nostalgia · Lingering attachment
You are stuck in old memories and missing the present. Keep the good times, but look ahead.
💞 Love · Relationships
Memory is eclipsing the present. As long as you compare today's partner to "that person back then," no present can beat the past.
💼 Work · Money
Nostalgia for "how we used to do it" is blocking change. Keep what made that era good, but don't import its methods wholesale.
Advice from the Six of Cups
The past is not a place to return to — it is a drawer to draw from. When nostalgia calls, don't go back; bring its warmth into today.