CUPS · VI

Six of Cups

Innocent exchange, old sweetness, a gift from a former garden. Recovery through what was once simple. Visit; do not move back in as if time were a door you own.

ELEMENT: water
NUMBER: Six — recovery: children in a garden, flower cups, the past as a living gift.
SYMBOLS: two children in a walled garden, one offering a cup filled with a white flower · six cups of blossoms, memory as a bouquet not as a cage · a guard or older figure walking away, the present leaving the scene a little space · an old house, the architecture of then

UPRIGHT

+tenderness without a strategy
+repair with someone from before
+drawing water from a clean memory
−nostalgia as a refusal of the adult life
−idealizing a childhood that was not safe
−using 'we go way back' to skip present consent

IN LOVE: An old flame, a familiar kindness, the child-self in the bond. Sweet. Check that both of you are grown now.
IN WORK: A reunion, an old skill, a former colleague. The garden can fund the present if you do not live there.
IN SELF: You may need a flower from the earlier you. Receive it. Then walk out of the walled yard.

REVERSED

The garden is locked, or you will not leave it — stuck in then, or cut off from a sweetness you still need.

Blocked — the upright current exists and is dammed.
Excess — the current is overplayed.
Internalized — the drama is inner rather than worldly.

Blocked Six of Cups cannot receive the old gift. Excess Six lives in then. Inner Six is a private childhood still running the tap.

PAIRS WELL WITH: The Star Ten of Cups Two of Cups The Sun
TENSES WITH: The Devil Eight of Cups Death Five of Cups

WHAT WE WILL NOT SAY ABOUT THIS PLATE

an ex is coming back
those were the good old days
heal your inner child and all will be well