1. Tarot
2. Card meanings
3. Six of Cups

Minor Arcana · Cups

Six of Cups

• memories
• looking back
• happiness

Upright meaning

A card of the past and of memories, as Waite says: happiness looked back on, and the simple kindness of childhood.

Reversed meaning

Reversed, Waite reads the future and renewal: attention turning from what was to what is coming.

• renewal

Symbolism

Children in an old garden, their cups filled with flowers.

Group

Minor Arcana · Cups

Element, astrology

Not given by Waite, so we give none

Source

Our own plain-English summary of A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London: Rider, 1911), Part III §2 (The Lesser Arcana). The keywords are Waite’s own words. Waite’s fortune-telling lists also contain harsher terms; we keep to the reflective readings he gives and never state an event as certain.

Tarot is a tool for reflection, not a prediction of fixed outcomes. This is not medical, legal or financial advice.