Six of Cups

Key meanings

• nostalgia
• warm memories
• innocence
• tenderness
• childhood

Six of Cups upright

Warm nostalgia and a pure heart: sweet memories and simple kindness.

The shadow side

Slipping off into a warm 'once upon a time' when life is calling you into today.

Six of Cups reversed

Getting stuck in the past, idealizing 'how it used to be,' an unwillingness to grow up.

Six of Cups as the card of the day

Today your heart leans back toward the past, toward simple joys and a sweetness where everything felt warm and kind. Let yourself have that tenderness, like a sip from a childhood cup. These bright roots are good to draw from, as long as you don't move in and live there.

The question this card asks

What warm memory feeds you, and could it be quietly keeping you in the past?