Six of Cups
Upright meaning
Memory, familiar affection, and the influence of the past. Nostalgia may offer comfort or idealize what came before.
Something to consider
A familiar person or memory may feel comforting. Let it remind you of what matters while checking whether the present situation is truly the same as the past.
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Waite: the card
Children in an old garden, their cups filled with flowers.
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Waite: divinatory meaning
A card of the past and of memories, looking back, as—for example—on childhood; happiness, enjoyment, but coming rather from the past; things that have vanished. Another reading reverses this, giving new relations, new knowledge, new environment, and then the children are disporting in an unfamiliar precinct.
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Waite: reversed
The future, renewal, that which will come to pass presently.
Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — A. E. Waite (1922) · Public domain
Mathers: meaning
44. Six of Cups.-The Past, passed by, Faded, Vanished, Disappeared; R. The Future, that which is to come, Shortly, Soon.
Source: The Tarot: Its Occult Signification, Use in Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1888) · Public domain