Six of Cups
"A child offers a flower-filled cup to another: the simple sweetness of what comes from the past."
Upright meaning
The Six of Cups is tender memory: childhood, a sweet recollection, a generous gesture with no hidden motive. It speaks of reunions, of people from the past returning, of innocence that heals. It is the warmth of the familiar and of what is given freely.
Reversed meaning
Reversed, nostalgia becomes an anchor. Living on memories, idealizing a past that was not quite so, or clinging to an old version of yourself that no longer serves today.
In love
A past love resurfacing, or a relationship recovering its early tenderness. Reversed, beware of getting trapped in what used to be.
In work and money
Collaborations with familiar people or a return to something you have done before. The familiar works in your favor without holding you back.
The card's advice
Honor the good you carry from the past, but live it in the present: yesterday is a root, not a house.