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Six of Cups tarot card meaning: upright and reversed
Cups · Water · VI · nostalgia · innocence · the past returning
Upright meaning
Flowers handed between two children. Nostalgia, simple kindness, something from the past coming back around — an old friend, a familiar place, a gentler way of relating.
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Six of Cups reversed
Living in a memory that has been polished until it stopped being accurate.
Reversal does not flip Six of Cups into its opposite. The same force is present but blocked, turned inward, or overdone — which of the three applies is decided by the cards around it. The keywords shift to stuck in memory, idealising, letting go.
In love
An ex reappearing, childhood connections, or a relationship with genuine tenderness in it.
In career and money
Returning to earlier work, or a contact from the past becoming relevant again.
Yes or no?
Yes. Drawn in answer to a direct question, this card supports going ahead. Want it read against your actual situation rather than in general? Pull a card here.
The playing-card counterpart: Six of Hearts →Cups pair with Hearts, and the number stays the same. How cartomancy reads it, its yes or no and its birthdays.Zodiac sign and astrology
A decan card: one third of a sign · Golden Dawn
- Sign
- Scorpio
- Decan
- 2nd · 10°–20° Scorpio
- Planet
- Sun in Scorpio
- Dates
- November 2–12
- Book T title
- Lord of Pleasure
Simple cheerfulness is too narrow a reading of this correspondence. The Sun in Scorpio is read as vitality and the wish to be seen working through sustained feelings and attachments. You might recognize this in meeting an old friend and slipping into a familiar kindness: remembering how they take their tea becomes a way of saying that you still know them.
Read with: Death · The Sun · Five of Cups · Seven of Cups
