Western Tarot symbolism
Six of Cups
The main description places children in an old garden with flowers in their cups. Its first reading concerns childhood memories, but a second treats the same children as playing in a new environment. The supplementary list returns to pleasant memories and assigns an imminent inheritance reversed. The main reversed list instead concerns the future and renewal in broader terms.
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In the sources
The card account
LiteraryThe main description places children in an old garden with flowers in their cups. Its first reading concerns childhood memories, but a second treats the same children as playing in a new environment.
Comparing the lists
LiteraryThe supplementary list returns to pleasant memories and assigns an imminent inheritance reversed. The main reversed list instead concerns the future and renewal in broader terms.
Context & interpretation
The active library scan carries L. W. de Laurence’s name and reproduces material associated with A. E. Waite’s Tarot exposition. This entry follows that supplied edition’s card prose and supplementary lists. Historical divinatory assignments and period character labels are distinguished from the pictured symbolism and from independently supported judgements about people or future events.
Original passages
Source 1
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Children in an old garden, their cups filled with flowers. Divinatory Meanings: A card of the past and of memories, lock- ing back, as—for example—on childhood;Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; card description, active reader leaf 114
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0114
- Original scan leaf
- 120
- Recorded leaf number
- 120
- Current Reader position
- 114
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Pleasant memories. Reversed: Inheritance to fall in quickly. Five.—Generally favorable ; a happy marriage ; also patrimony, legacies, gifts, success in enterprise. Reversed: Return of someOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, supplied de Laurence edition; additional meanings, active reader leaf 151
Exact supplied-edition extracted passage actually read; whitespace-normalised quotation anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Image descriptions attributed to printed prose; no new full-plate visual inspection asserted.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0151
- Original scan leaf
- 157
- Recorded leaf number
- 157
- Current Reader position
- 151
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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