Six of Cups
The Card
An older child hands a cup filled with white flowers to a smaller child in a village courtyard. Other cups with flowers are arranged around them. A guard walks away in the background — the adult world is not watching. This moment belongs entirely to the children.
Symbolism
Six cups bearing white star-flowers — purity and memory. The village represents safety, home, and familiar comfort. The departing guard suggests we are briefly freed from adult scrutiny and allowed to simply be.
The sweetness of the past. A child offers a cup of flowers to a younger child — this is nostalgia, childhood joy, and the kind of uncomplicated goodwill we rarely encounter as adults. It may signal a reunion, a return to innocent pleasures, or a gift from the past.
Living in the past, naivety, leaving home, outgrowing childhood patterns.
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