The six of cups challenge….
It looks like I’m being challenged to understand certain cards in the tarot deck that I don’t have an affinity with?
For example the 6 of cups. As I received it yesterday as my ‘best way forward’ in the pyramid tarot reading of yesterday.
And indeed it is a card of moving forward.
When it comes up in a reading I burbled on about moving forward by referring to the past, perhaps when life was simpler, of childhood, siblings, friendships, innocence, harmony, shared values….and to move forward by bringing this aspect into the future.
I personally really don’t know what that means. And don’t have a specific moment when this card has ever struck a cord. I don’t have a lot of childhood happy memories…..except I do remember my relationship with my sister, of walking in the woods and singing songs and making her laugh, they were joyful times. Perhaps later in my 20s, a gang of us just enjoying the good life…again my skill was making others laugh. Actually if I refer to the past and happy times, then being funny features highly.
A boy offers a girl a cup with a white flower representing innocence
In the card, the larger child (a boy) is handing a cup to a smaller child (girl) there are white flowers representing innocence….there’s a feeling of shared happy memories. Of nostalgia, it that good or bad? Bad, or rather more negative, I suppose would mean looking back at the past with rose tinted spectacles. Forward suggests returning to the simple pleasures of friendship, harmony, playfulness….
All the sixes in a tarot deck speaks of moving on…..
The 6 of swords I understand. Because it’s about having learned lessons, difficulty, but overcoming them to move forward, and with that card there’s a certain amount of respect and acknowledgement due you. The six of wands, I understand as a sense of achievement having used ones innate talents and again a measure of respect and recognition is due. The 6 of pentacles, seems to be about understanding that what we put into life we receive. All three so simple for me to understand but the 6 of cups. What do I do?
Revisit old friendships. Reconnect with old friends. Reconnect with simpler times is the best I can come up with. In terms of work, perhaps its meaning is in returning to something familiar that you enjoyed? Instagram?
This Queen holds a closed cup with angels standing on the handles
I have the same problem with the Queen of Cups. It’s all very well that she is proclaimed the quintessential mother who gives unconditional love, she has boundless compassion but she looks insecure to me sitting on a throne with sea all around her, yes the sea represents an ocean of emotion, but the way she’s looking at this enormous old cup in her hands, it’s as if she doesn’t know what to do with it. So that confuses me. And while I can imagine she must be the best mother, the kind who looks after her every child’s whim, who lies down on the bed so her children can sleep, except I just can’t quite respect loving everyone else above herself. As I don’t think that’s a very good thing to teach your children. Which says a lot about me obviously! Very much coming from I’d like to think Queen of Wands, who loves by being inspiring, or more likely the queen of swords, who’s a bit of a tough love character. I relate to the Queen of Pentacles as she brings practical love that enables us to flourish.
So these cup cards challenge me. Hence why I am writing this blog as the process of writing our my thoughts helps me absorb concepts that are not natural to me. I might being asked to develop the qualities of unconditional love, of compassion and sweetness…..
Making a cup of tea it suddenly occurred to me one of my favourite sayings to the children is ‘Get Cosy’. I even embroidered a cushion for a birthday present for Cressida when she was perhaps 3. Suddenly the six of cups is reminding me of reading bedtime stories, with us all cosying up, the kids either sitting on my lap or snuggling by my side. Oh joy, I finally have an association with the six of cups I can connect with!
scary photo of me getting cosy with Loosh
Do come and have a tarot reading with me in Battersea this weekend. Its very rainy and I’m in the mood to share. Or online, as online readings are just as helpful, nurturing, healing and informative.