Six of Cups
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Sun in Scorpio
Lord of Pleasure
Cups is the suit of emotion, inner states, feelings, relationships, memories, spiritual experiences. This suit talks about friendship, family, love and happiness.
Sixes represent harmony within flux. Equilibrium, fairness, balance restored, peace, reward, values, benefits from past behaviour. Sixes indicate a search for harmony, the feminine, beauty, choice, decision, adjustments in thoughts or attitudes and the ability to transcend difficulties.
This is the card of the past.
Lord of Pleasure
Cups is the suit of emotion, inner states, feelings, relationships, memories, spiritual experiences. This suit talks about friendship, family, love and happiness.
Sixes represent harmony within flux. Equilibrium, fairness, balance restored, peace, reward, values, benefits from past behaviour. Sixes indicate a search for harmony, the feminine, beauty, choice, decision, adjustments in thoughts or attitudes and the ability to transcend difficulties.
This is the card of the past.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)
Children in an old garden, their cups filled with flowers.
Divinatory Meanings: 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.
Reversed: The future, renewal, that which will come to pass presently.
Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana: Six
Upright: Pleasant memories.
Reversed: Inheritance to fall in quickly.
Divinatory Meanings: 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.
Reversed: The future, renewal, that which will come to pass presently.
Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana: Six
Upright: Pleasant memories.
Reversed: Inheritance to fall in quickly.
Upright
Nostalgia, home, childhood, innocence.
Simple goodness, trust and innocence.
Gifts, giving and receiving.
Karmic ties.
There is a connection or a reconnection to something in the past.
Acknowledge your gift of intuition and accept it as your own.
A pleasurable realization of a long held dream.
Something will be returned to you.
If you are considering a course of study, now might be the time to pursue it, for it is truthful and without deceit.
Enjoy your home and family today.
Think about old times, old friends, old memories. It is a day of family first.
Recover and deal with any feelings or emotions from your past.
Celebrate who you are and where you come from.
Happy memories.
Feeling supported and satisfied by your relationships and circumstances.
Not taking the emotions of another seriously.
Playing, the child inside. Don't be afraid to remember what it was to be a child.
Friendship.
Sharing in a loving way.
Resourcefulness brings love and harmony.
That which has passed away, faded, stale, long ago, previously, since the first instant, long since, in the past, age, decrepitude, antiquity. A minor card, referring to matters of the past. Also may signify inconstancy of affections, a rupture in love or friendship. (Paul Huson)
Simple goodness, trust and innocence.
Gifts, giving and receiving.
Karmic ties.
There is a connection or a reconnection to something in the past.
Acknowledge your gift of intuition and accept it as your own.
A pleasurable realization of a long held dream.
Something will be returned to you.
If you are considering a course of study, now might be the time to pursue it, for it is truthful and without deceit.
Enjoy your home and family today.
Think about old times, old friends, old memories. It is a day of family first.
Recover and deal with any feelings or emotions from your past.
Celebrate who you are and where you come from.
Happy memories.
Feeling supported and satisfied by your relationships and circumstances.
Not taking the emotions of another seriously.
Playing, the child inside. Don't be afraid to remember what it was to be a child.
Friendship.
Sharing in a loving way.
Resourcefulness brings love and harmony.
That which has passed away, faded, stale, long ago, previously, since the first instant, long since, in the past, age, decrepitude, antiquity. A minor card, referring to matters of the past. Also may signify inconstancy of affections, a rupture in love or friendship. (Paul Huson)
Reversed
A discovery of important information.
Future events.
A disappointment.
Regrets.
Unproductive nostalgia.
Unhappy with everything.
Sad or bitter memories.
Failure to move on, living in the past.
Serious emotional problems with past experiences.
Emotional immaturity.
Expecting something for nothing.
Social climbing.
Constant longing for the past.
Pensiveness and remorse.
Disappointment over an inheritance.
News from the past that could be disruptive to you.
Clinging to outdated ideas.
Escapist literature.
That which is to come, future, after, at last, afterwards, ultimately, regeneration, reproduction, renewal, reiteration. (Paul Huson)
Future events.
A disappointment.
Regrets.
Unproductive nostalgia.
Unhappy with everything.
Sad or bitter memories.
Failure to move on, living in the past.
Serious emotional problems with past experiences.
Emotional immaturity.
Expecting something for nothing.
Social climbing.
Constant longing for the past.
Pensiveness and remorse.
Disappointment over an inheritance.
News from the past that could be disruptive to you.
Clinging to outdated ideas.
Escapist literature.
That which is to come, future, after, at last, afterwards, ultimately, regeneration, reproduction, renewal, reiteration. (Paul Huson)
Links
- Open Tarot
- Directory of tarot and occult sites.
- Paul Huson
- The website maintained by Paul Huson, author, screenwriter, and designer.
- Learning theTarot
- Six of Cups from Joan Bunning's free online Course for Learning the Tarot.
- ATA
- Essay about the Six of Cups by James Rioux (The Black Shadow).
- Angel Paths
- Six of Cups. Tarot resources, readings, cards, decks, forums, big New Age shop, spiritual holistic healing.
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