memories, innocence, an old connection
Six of Cups Tarot Card Meaning
What Six of Cups means upright and reversed, with readings for love, money and career.
The picture and its symbols
Six of Cups shows a child handing another a cup filled with flowers in an old village. It belongs to the suit of Cups, the element of water (feelings, relationships and intuition), and its rank carries the theme of harmony and recovery (Six). The card of old memories, old ties and an innocent heart. A reader looks at whether the past is returning as a gift or keeping you in place.
Upright meaning
memories, innocence, an old connection. Warm memories of the past or an old connection come to mind.
- Love
- You may reconnect with a former partner or an old friend.
- Money
- Help from family or a small gift arrives.
- Career
- You work again with someone you worked with before.
- Yes or no
- Yes
- Advice
- Putting what you feel into words is the key that opens the way.
Reversed meaning
clinging to the past, refusing to grow. You are living in the past and missing the present.
- Love
- Do not compare a past romance with the present one.
- Money
- Insisting on the old way costs you.
- Career
- The formula that worked before no longer does.
- Yes or no
- No
- Advice
- Notice whether you are holding feelings down or being swept away by them.
Timing
Because this is a Cups card, change is likely to show over a few weeks to a couple of months.
The question this card asks
Do you miss that person, or who you were back then?
Draw the cards yourself
For entertainment and self-reflection only. Do not use a reading to make health, legal or financial decisions.