tarot card meanings · minor arcana · cups

six of cups tarot card, original ink-line art

six of cups — tarot card meaning

Flowers passed between children; memory, kindness, the past visiting.

reversed

Nostalgia as a place to live; the past editing itself.

two philosophical anchors, cited

Pleasure in remembering well · Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus · after Hicks/Bailey

“Among the goods, the memory of past goods is secure - the wise man is grateful.”

The uncarved past · Daodejing, ch. 28 (spirit) · after Legge

“Return to the state of the infant - innocence revisited, not reinhabited.”

the question we would ask

Is this memory feeding your present, or is your present feeding the memory?

how a reading is composed — and why it ends with a question, not a prediction.