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Six of Cups

VI Cups

Upright

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  • nostalgia
  • innocence
  • the past
  • simple kindness

Cups of flowers carried between children. The Six of Cups is sweet memory — nostalgia, reunion, the simple kindnesses that formed you. Borrow the past's warmth; don't move into it.

Reversed

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│       VI · CUPS        │
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  • trapped in the past
  • rose-coloured memory
  • clinging

The amber glow of memory hardening into walls. Living on old glories, idealised history, habits of heart long outgrown. Honour then by growing past it.