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Six of Cups Tarot Card Meaning

Six of Cups belongs to the suit of Cups — the water suit of emotion, intuition and relationships. Upright it speaks of nostalgia, childhood, innocence; reversed, of stuck in the past, unrealistic memories. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's archetype and its astrological correspondence.

Six of Cups tarot card — hand-illustrated Lunara deck
Minor Arcana · CupsWaterSun in Scorpio

Upright 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”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: nostalgia, childhood, innocence, reunion, memory.

Reversed meaning

“The future, renewal, that which will come to pass presently”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: stuck in the past, unrealistic memories, moving forward.

The archetype

In the language of the feeling function (relationship, emotion and imagination — the water of the heart): harmony restored — exchange between conscious and unconscious.

Astrology

Decan: Sun in Scorpio. Water triplicity (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces).

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