| Arcana | Minor |
| Suit | Cups |
| Element | Water |
| Attribution | Sun in Scorpio |
6 of Cups
Six of Cups
In shortThe past visits, and it is kind.
Upright
nostalgiainnocencekindnessthe past returningsimple pleasure
This is nostalgia, childhood, and uncomplicated generosity — someone from before reappearing, a memory that comforts, a kindness given with nothing expected back. It is gentle and a bit wistful, and it often signals returning to something you loved before it got complicated.
Reversed
stuck in the pastidealised memorymoving forwardnaivety
The past has too strong a grip. Memory polished up better than it was, a relationship kept alive on what it used to be, or a reluctance to grow up. Alternatively, and more happily, the past finally lets go of you and you start facing forward.
In the pictureAn older child offers a younger one a cup filled with white flowers, in the courtyard of a manor. Five more flowered cups stand about. A figure walks away in the background — the adult world, leaving them to it.
The turn
Do the small kind thing for no reason. That is the whole instruction.