Six of Cups

The Six of Cups is traditionally associated with nostalgia, childhood memory, and the particular warmth that the past — or a return to it — can carry. The Sun in Scorpio brings genuine illumination to the normally deep and searching sign: something hidden has come into the light, something that was once simple and sweet surfaces again. The card can speak literally to reunion, childhood environments, or contact with someone from the past; at a deeper register it speaks to the way we carry our earliest experiences of safety and joy, and sometimes need to revisit them. Its danger is an idealization that refuses to move forward; its gift is the genuine nourishment available in certain kinds of looking back.

Imagery

Often depicted as a small figure offering a cup overflowing with flowers to a younger or smaller figure in a courtyard or garden setting, with additional flower-filled cups nearby. The scene carries an easy, unhurried quality, the exchange uncomplicated and freely given.