Tarot card meanings · Minor Arcana · Cups

Six of Cups

Movement toward ease, help given or received, a gentler passage — in the realm of feelings, relationships and what you let in.

Six of Cups
Lunara deck · ▽

How Lunara reads it

Upright: Movement toward ease, help given or received, a gentler passage — in the realm of feelings, relationships and what you let in.

Reversed: Help with strings attached, or nostalgia standing in for progress — in the realm of feelings, relationships and what you let in.

Keywords: relief, feeling · reversed: imbalance, feeling

Correspondences

  • Element: Water
  • Planet: Sun
  • Zodiac: Scorpio
  • Yes / no: yes · reversed: maybe

When it appears upright

  • Donating your time and talents to others
  • Taking satisfaction in knowing how your efforts will aid others
  • Creating a "win-win" scenario
  • Giving even when you know repayment is not possible
  • Being motivated to do a good deed

When it appears reversed

  • Linking your sense of self-worth to the appraisals of others
  • Striving to appear more needy than you really are
  • Taking undeserved or unmerited charity
  • Bragging about your charitable efforts
  • Profiteering in times of distress
  • Refusing to share a burden

Classic readings

  • A stingy spirit is strangling your enjoyment of life
  • Loosen up and think of others for once, why don't you?

In love

Upright: past love, romantic nostalgia, reunion with an ex, innocent affection. Reversed: stuck in the past, idealized memory, releasing old ties, growing up.

In work and money

Upright: returning to a former career, familiar workplace, mentoring others, nostalgia influencing career choices. Reversed: clinging to the familiar, releasing old roles, nostalgia fading, moving forward.

Inner life

Upright: healing the inner child, ancestral memories, spiritual innocence, reconnecting with simple joy. Reversed: releasing the past, outgrowing old comforts, healing memory, moving forward.

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