Six of CupsTarot card meaning
The Six of Cups is a Minor Arcana card in the suit of Cups. In tarot it means nostalgia, innocence and old ties. As a yes or no answer, it leans yes.
A sweetness from the past pays a visit, a memory, an old friend, a childhood taste. The Six of Cups is warm nostalgia: let it soften you. Some old doors are worth reopening.
In a yes or no reading: Yes · yes or no tarot →
- Element
- Water
- Astrology
- The Sun in Scorpio
- Number
- 6
What the card shows
In an old courtyard, a boy hands a girl a cup with a white flower growing in it. Four more cups of flowers line the yard, and a guard walks away in the distance. Everything is safe, small and sweet. It is the taste of the past, offered in the present, and it asks to be received, not moved into.
Six of Cups reversed
The past has become a residence. Reversed, it asks whether you're visiting your memories or living in them, and what the present would need to compete.
How to read a reversed card →Six of Cups in love
In love, the Six of Cups is the one who returns from the past: the boy offering the girl a cup full of flowers, in a courtyard from another time. It speaks of a first love reappearing, of a relationship with someone who has known you forever, of the simple tenderness sometimes mistaken for lack of passion. The card asks whether it is nostalgia or love. Both can be true.
Is Six of Cups a yes or a no?
The Six of Cups answers yes, tenderly. A boy offers a girl a cup full of white flowers, in a courtyard that seems to belong to another time. What you ask has roots in something good from the past: an old friendship, a place, a way you used to be. It is a yes that returns, not one that arrives.
Compare: the same card in all four suits
| Card | Keyword | Element | Yes or no |
|---|---|---|---|
| Six of Wands | victory | Fire | Yes |
| Six of Cups | nostalgia | Water | Yes |
| Six of Swords | transition | Air | Yes |
| Six of Pentacles | generosity | Earth | Yes |
Cards that often appear with it
- Seven of Cups
The next card in the suit
- Six of Wands
The same number in the opposed element
- The Moon
The Major Arcana that rules this suit's questions
Number and correspondence
In the deck's old correspondences, the Six of Cups belongs to the Sun in Scorpio.
Will this card find you tonight?
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