Six of Cups

The pastMemoriesChildhoodHappiness

Upright

A card of the past and of memories, looking back, as—for example—on childhood; happiness, enjoyment, but coming rather from the past; things that have vanished. Another reading reverses this, giving new relations, new knowledge, new environment, and then the children are disporting in an unfamiliar precinct.

Reversed

The future, renewal, that which will come to pass presently.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

The picture

Children in an old garden, their cups filled with flowers.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §2

Older readings

Pleasant memories. Reversed: Inheritance to fall in quickly.

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III §4. Waite collected these and says they often disagree with the main meanings.

Waite wrote in 1911 and some of his meanings show it. Tarot is a tradition of reflection, not a prediction, and no card decides anything for you.