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6 of Cups, Rider-Waite-Smith
Minor arcana · Cups

6 of Cups

The Six of Cups brings back images of the village and of childhood. The flowering cups pass from one child to the other and make the scene familiar.

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What the card shows

A child holds out a cup filled with flowers to a smaller one, in a village street. The flowering cups occupy the front of the scene, and the houses rise behind the two figures.

Its light

The gift received long ago stays useful when you take it for what it was. What you learned feeds the bond of today, and you pass it on without embellishing it.

Its shadow

Childhood becomes a setting where you store your memories and compare the present to embellished images: what lies here loses its colour in your eyes.

Keywords

memorychildhoodnostalgiasharingsimplicity

Notes on the symbolism

RWS. Six of Cups. The enclosed garden of the English tarot frames the meeting, and Waite reads an older time there and the gentleness of an exchange.

What this card invites you to do

Sort what your past truly left you, keep what still nourishes, and compare your memories to the present as it stands.

A card does not decide for you.
It shows you where to look.

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