Six of Cups: tarot meaning, upright and reversed

A child offers a flower-filled cup in a sheltered courtyard.

Upright

memory · kindness

A memory or simple act of care reconnects the present with an earlier experience.

Reversed

idealised past · outgrowing

Nostalgia may obscure what has changed or needs to be left behind.

In a reading

The position gives this card a particular task: a description of the situation, a challenge, or guidance. Read its image and meaning alongside the other cards and the question that brought them together.

Golden Dawn correspondence

Sun in Scorpio, 10–20 degrees. This is the attribution in Book T.

Sources

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot. These notes are original interpretations of the Waite–Smith imagery, informed by that text.