Six of Cups
Minor Arcana · Cups

Six of Cups

KeywordsMemories, the past, innocence, reunion

The picture · Bright face · Shadow · Way through

Every card has four faces: what the picture shows, the bright face it turns when the situation supports it, the shadow when the same root is overdone or stuck, and the way through that the picture itself draws.

The picture

One child hands another a cup of flowers

Bright face

Old warmth returning; innocence, reunion

Shadow

Living only in the past tense

Way through

The flowers change hands now — bring the memory into today

As your card of the day

If Six of Cups is the first card you draw today, the day leans toward “Old warmth returning; innocence, reunion”. When it tips toward “Living only in the past tense”, remember the way the picture draws: The flowers change hands now — bring the memory into today.

Read Waite's 1911 text and the correspondences

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