Six of Cups
Six of Cups
There are six cups filled with five pointed flowers. These flowers are all white. A young boy seems to be smelling one flower and seems to be offering this filled cup to a friend. Everything is bright yellow which indicates great happiness. There is much going on in the background, perhaps someone working or doing his thing. It is a perfect sky on this day. The neighborhood is not a poor place, as a matter of fact it looks average or above. I think that the two friends have know each other for some time and it is not a new acquaintances. They are sharing old pleasures with lots of nostalgia. Perhaps there may be an inheritance.
You may be trying to escape into the past where you are remembering happy and beautiful. This card depends on the others, can mean an old friend coming back but the relationship will be new and different. You can't make the past again, just learn from it. Or maybe you should explore the ancient traditions of your own people rather than of other cultures.The card may indicate being at the center of something positive, ie family or friends, work relations. The flow is constant and even, warm and glowing. The number six can indicate a journey or movement and when it appears with cups (feminine, fertile, love, beauty) it can indicate a birth, growth, inception. The subject of the reading is likely to be at the center of attention.
A keyword I have for this card is "remembering." Whether that be through wistful nostalgia, news or a visit from the past, or thinking of another by giving a peace-offering or a gift (perhaps remembering someone's birthday).
A card of the past and of memories, looking back, as, for example, on childhood; happiness, enjoyment, but coming rather from the past; things that have vanished.
Meeting with a childhood acquaintance who has a gift for you. Happiness and enjoyment come from the past. Pleasant memories. New surroundings and opportunities. Possible inheritance.
Pleasure from the past, happiness, balance and peace, memory or renewal of past, gifts, friendship. Success after struggle. Memory, links to the past (old friend or lover may turn up soon) Childhood. Past efforts to be rewarded. The answer in question lies in a similar situation in the past. Possibly a move of home, closer to origin. Sentimental value.
Joy. You need to experience child-like joy. The child you were still lives within you and must be cared for. Allow yourself positive, nostalgic memories of childhood, friends and family. If you can, spend time with younger people.
In the film Parenthood there is a scene in which all the members of a large family come together to witness a birth. As the camera moves from person to person, we see as if for the first time the uniqueness of each one. The people talk and laugh, but their actions seem anything but ordinary. There is a sweetness in the air that builds until we see its very embodiment - the new baby. This is the spirit of the Six of Cups.
The Six of Cups is a card of simple goodness. It encourages you to be kind, generous and forgiving. The Six of Cups also represents innocence - a word with many shades of meaning. You can be innocent in the strictly legal sense of lack of guilt. You can be innocent of the truth - unaware of some secret. You can be lacking in deceit or corruption - innocent of ulterior motive. Finally, you can be virtuous or chaste. These are all possibilities that can apply to the Six of Cups, depending on the situation.
Notice that the two figures on the Six of Cups appear to be children. Often this card represents a baby or young child. In a larger sense, it embraces all of childhood and the feelings we associate with youth (ideally!) -being carefree, playful, secure and loved. Children are our treasure, and the sweetness of the Six of Cups is a quality to be treasured as well.
Having impure or sneaky motives. Feeling jaded, cynical or bitter. Not taking time out to 'play'. Feeling abandoned and/or unloved. Feeling that you've missed out on a happy and loving childhood. Encountering serious difficulties at a young age. An unhappy home life. An abusive parent or guardian. Child abuse. Family rifts and problems. And old friendship that turns sour. Being told that you can't have children. Death of a child.Living in the past instead of the present. Disappointment over inheritance.
Cut out a red paper heart the size of your palm. Write upon it this rhyme, "Joy to you, joy to me, joy to everything I see."Place it on the mirror to remind you of the child within you. For six days, six minutes a day. Try to see with the eyes of a child look at the miracle we call life. As if it were all new, it is new.