Six of Cups
Overall meaning
Six of Cups represent nostalgia, childhood memories, focus on the past. When this card appears in a Tarot spread, you may be affected by past events, reminisce about the past, or think about someone from your past. The card can also mean homesickness.
Description
Six of Cups shows a boy and a girl standing in a castle garden. The little boy hands a cup with a flower in it to the girl. Around them are five other cups with flowers in them. There is an atmosphere of openness, vulnerability and trust. The cups with flowers symbolize that creative efforts will lead to reward. The card indicates a readiness to engage in a pleasurable exchange with a loved one or a project – possibly surrendering to one’s own emotional richness.
Interpretation
Six of Cups stands for enjoyment and indicates that you should enjoy everything that life gives you to the fullest. This is the best way you can express your gratitude. The card encourages you to accept and devote yourself to the joy, the desire, the enjoyment on both the bodily, the sensual and the spiritual level.
It can be about letting the inner child come forward and express wonder, gratitude and love. It can also be about clinging to memories, becoming nostalgic and idealizing the past. Here it will be important to invest energy in current or future projects, because it will be now that a dream is ready to manifest itself for you.
Keywords
Other words that can be applied to the Six of Cups are: attention to the past, seeing the world through a child’s eyes, childhood memories, past influences, longing, homesickness, nostalgia, simplicity, childhood, immaturity, support, protection. That past efforts are paying off now.
Numbers
The tarot card is associated with number 6, which means that you must pay attention to this number in relation to the challenge you are asking the tarot about. This is often expressed in the way that in the next 6 days | weeks | months | years it will be advantageous for you to experience pleasure as a refreshing and renewing element.
Astrology
Sun in Scorpio. You will be able to experience pleasure (Sun) on a very deep level (Scorpio).
Affirmation
I am open and trusting. I enjoy the fruit my actions have borne. I enjoy what life gives me.
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