The card I was assigned yesterday was the 6 of Cups. When I was younger, this card always made me feel happy as I looked at it. While it still brings me joy to see it, I think I’ve become more aware of the perils that are associated with the 6 of Cups.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a sweet card and it is associated with happy memories and relationships, but I am prone to ruminating on the past. Nostalgia is lovely, but we live in the present. I had a difficult adolescence and regularly found myself looking back on my even younger years wondering what went wrong with me. I think I picked age 6 as the year I would go back to if I could; that, however, is not how time works, and we can spend so much time looking backward (or forward, but this is not the card for that situation) we forget to be in the moment.
To the card… Once again, I’m using the Morgan-Greer Tarot deck which I’m still finding a little less detailed than other decks, but I don’t think I mind that. Often my mind is overwhelmed by the choice of symbolism in Tarot cards.
There are two children on the card as well as six goblets, each goblet holding white flowers. The two children are staring into each other’s eyes and one of the six goblets is held in their joined hands. I don’t know what the relationship between these children is, but I wonder about it. Personally, I think they’re friends rather than siblings because they are sharing the goblet instead of fighting over it.
The white flowers make me think of purity and innocence, and I feel like that’s the lens we apply to the past. Do you ever find yourself looking back on an event and thinking about how perfect it was compared to life now? Even if it wasn’t perfect, the edges of reality blur a little and time softens the memory.
Astrologically, the 6 of Cups is affiliated with Scorpio, the Fixed Water sign of the Zodiac, and I find that interesting. It is interesting to me because the Fixed signs are stalwart, and when they have a task to do, they do it, but they find it easy to become stuck in their ways even if their ways no longer work for them. I think this is a great correlation to the 6 of Cups because you can think back to a time when the ways that no longer work for you did and feel as though it worked successfully then and it can work successfully again.
Peace and balance,
Erin
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