Six of Cups

A youthful figure offers a cup filled with white flowers to a smaller child while five other cups stand nearby and a pastoral cottage waits behind them — the Six of Cups is the sweetness of memory and the kindness between who you were and who you are. A reunion is close — with a person, a place, a quality of innocence you had forgotten was yours.

Living too much in the past — idealizing what was, or refusing to grow beyond the child-self that first learned to love. Alternatively, a long-held wound from childhood finally asks to be addressed so you can move forward.

✦ The Illustration

A youthful robed figure gently handing a flower-filled gold chalice to a smaller child, five more cups arranged around them in a gentle arc, and a small pastoral cottage in the misty background.

✦ Affirmation

“I carry the tenderness of my past into my present with care.”