A flutter like first love comes back to life. A hello text arrives from an ex, or a friend from school days suddenly feels different. For a long-time couple, simply going back to where you had your first date can greatly change the air of the relationship. It is also a sign that the attitude of those days, giving your heart without calculating, is needed again now.
Offering white flowers
Six of Cups: Card Meaning
Six of Cups: Card Meaning
Reading It Upright and Reversed
Six of Cups · Minor Arcana · Cups · Six
In the Six of Cups, a taller child bends to offer a younger child a cup with white flowers. Upright, it means a tender flow in which memories of the past bloom again and old bonds return with unspoiled faces.
In a courtyard surrounded by crumbling walls, a bigger child bends at the waist to hold out a cup to a younger one. The cup is heaped with star-shaped white flowers, and cups holding the same flowers stand in a row on the stone ledges around. On the road behind, a single guard is walking away. It is a yard where you feel safe even with no one watching.
The hand offering the flowers shows no sign of wanting anything back. Between children there is no room for calculation, which is why the word innocence follows this card around. The setting inside the walls matters too. It is a place the noise of the outside world cannot reach, so the time this card shows is always some day gone by, not the present.
If the Six of Cups appears, will I hear from an ex?
It is true that it is a flow of reconnecting with past bonds. But that bond does not necessarily mean a lover; a friend, a former workmate or a relative you have not seen in a while may fill that role. If news really does arrive, apart from the gladness, first go over why you parted. If that reason has been resolved, it leads to a happy reunion; if it remains, it ends with simply confirming the memory once more.
Six of Cups: Love
Upright
Reversed
You are laying the image of someone from the past over the person you are with now. Sometimes the real reason you feel let down by your current partner is that they are not like the old one. If you are considering getting back together, first check whether the cause of the breakup has truly gone. If that reason remains, you will part again in the same place in the same way.
Six of Cups: Money
Upright
Money returns from seeds planted long ago. A forgotten savings plan matures, something you stored away sells at a fair price, or a former client gives you work again. Pocket money from parents or close relatives belongs here too. Reviving what was already there pays off far better than setting up a new game.
Reversed
You are spending today’s money by old standards. You keep spending as you did when you remembered earning well, or you cannot let go of habits picked up in your heyday. Sometimes you cannot throw away things steeped in memories, so storage fees keep going out. Rebuild your budget around the actual income in last month’s account, and it straightens out quickly.
Six of Cups: Work
Upright
Former colleagues or a previous company take the stage again. Someone you worked with connects you to a position, or the company you left offers to have you back. It is a period when your accumulated materials and know-how are used intact in your current work. The phrase your first heart may sound stale, but in this card it is a strategy that actually works.
Reversed
Clinging only to the tricks you know, you are being pushed out of the current. If you repeat only the old way without learning changed systems or new programs, you end up working by habit rather than skill. Boasting about your former company also easily grates on current colleagues’ ears. Learning even one unfamiliar function within this week changes the air.
| Card | Six of Cups — Minor Arcana · Cups · Six |
|---|---|
| Suit | Cups — Element: Water. Feelings and relationships — it shows what the heart holds and what it lets flow away. |
| Rank | Six — Six — the place where what was scattered is set evenly again. |
| Upright Keywords | Memories · old ties · innocence |
| Reversed Keywords | Stuck in the past · romanticising · ignoring the present |
Six of Cups Upright
Memories · old ties · innocence
Days gone by come knocking. A friend you had not heard from in a while gets in touch, an old photo in a drawer happens to come into your hand, and you end up passing through your childhood neighbourhood. If not a person, it may come as a sense, like the smell of a soup restaurant you used to love bringing that whole era back to life.
People who left reappearing is common too. An ex, a former colleague you lost touch with or a client whose business stopped shows up again. For this flow to lead somewhere welcome, there is one condition. You must be able to recall what actually happened back then as it was, without painting the times you shared prettier. Only then will a reunion not repeat old mistakes.
Six of Cups Reversed
Stuck in the past · romanticising · ignoring the present
The past takes over today’s place. You compare the person beside you now with someone from before, measure your current job against your old company, and keep saying that it was better then. But memory gets retouched. The hard parts fade and only the shining scenes remain, so in the end a past far more appealing than the real one is complete.
This is also exactly the point to be wary of when an old bond returns. You need to tell whether the person in front of you is that person from back then or a picture left in your head. And one more thing: there are also times you hide in memories to avoid today’s work. The longer the day you spend turning album pages, the more often today’s postponed tasks are piling up.
Something to Try the Day This Card Appears
Spend just ten minutes leafing through an old photo album or past message history. Pick one face there you still feel grateful to when you recall it, and send a short hello naming exactly the help you received back then. Memories give strength when you take them out and use them today; kept only in a drawer, they become a burden. Make today a day for putting memories to use.
Cards from Other Groups
Cups: 14 Cards
Ace of Cups
Two of Cups
Three of Cups
Four of Cups
Five of Cups
Six of Cups
Seven of Cups
Eight of Cups
Nine of Cups
Ten of Cups
Page of Cups
Knight of Cups
Queen of Cups
King of Cups
A card read on its own means something slightly different from one placed beside other cards. If something is on your mind these days, pick four cards to read on, and if you are curious about your inborn nature, open a Saju reading as well.