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Six of Cups Tarot Card Meaning
The Six of Cups tarot card means nostalgia, childhood and kindness. Nostalgia and kindness.
Upright
- Nostalgia
- childhood
- kindness
Reversed
- Stuck in the past
- rose-tinted memories
- growing up
Yes or no
Yes
The Six of Cups is one of the 14 cards in the suit of Cups. Cups are the suit of water: feelings, love, friendship and intuition.
What the card shows
In the yard of an old village, a child hands a cup filled with white flowers to a smaller child. Five more cups of flowers stand around them.
This is the card as drawn by Pamela Colman Smith for the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck, which is in the public domain.
Upright meaning
The Six of Cups is read as happy memories and simple kindness. It points to childhood, old friends, a visit home, or someone from the past returning.
Six of Cups reversed
Reversed, it is read as living in the past, or leaving it behind and growing up.
Yes or no?
In a yes or no question, the Six of Cups is usually read as a yes. Readers differ on some cards, so treat this as one common reading. You can ask a yes or no question and draw a card for it.
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