LEARN TO DO YOUR OWN TAROT READINGSThe Six of Cups in The Minor Arcana
In the Six of Cups two child-like figures stand in a garden. The little boy, dressed in a green jerkin, boots and red hose and hood hands a golden cup to the little girl. The girl also wears a red hood but with loose robes. She wears a glove on her left hand. A second cup stands on a stone pedestal and four other cups are lines up at the front of the picture. Each cup contains one white flower and foliage.
In the background of the garden there are two buildings. One building looks like an ordinary house yet it has an almost ecclesiastical window. The other building resembles either a keep (a little like the one in the Five of Cups) or a church. Just in front of the building there is a man holding a staff.
The Six of Cups represents the innocence of childhood. It asks the querent to remember the forgotten feelings of being young, the wonder and happiness as yet untainted by experience. When the Six of Cups appears in a reading it indicates that there is a need to value and embrace innocence in whatever form it appears in the querent's life. This could mean simply a lack of guilt or a lack of knowledge - something going on that the querent is unaware of.
The card can also stand for a baby or young child who may have some involvement in the questioner's life.
This is a lovely card. The children's six cups are overflowing with flowers, symbolic of joy and innocence. The Six of Cups asks you to embrace tha long-forgotten essence of childhood.
Summary: My cup runneth over.
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