Six of Cups
The past returns through memory, innocence, or emotional healing.
Upright Meaning
The Six of Cups represents memories, childhood, the past, innocence, and emotional comfort. It suggests looking back, reconnecting with simpler feelings, or receiving happiness from something familiar.
Reversed Meaning
Reversed, the Six of Cups points to the future, renewal, and something new arriving soon. It can suggest moving beyond nostalgia and opening to fresh emotional experience.
Symbolism
Children and flower-filled cups in an old garden symbolize childhood, memory, simple joy, and emotion from the past.
The flowers filling the cups suggest feeling nourished by tenderness, nostalgia, and harmless sharing.
The card points chiefly to past happiness, vanished things, and remembered satisfaction, though it can also be reversed toward new surroundings and relationships.
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