41-Six of Cups – Reversed Thoth Deck

Your Chosen Card – Six of Cups Reversed Thoth Deck

When reversed, the Six of Cups can refer to things that will happen shortly or at some unspecified time in the future. This card can also indicate a desire to take refuge in pleasant memories of past pleasures rather than facing your current situation. Nostalgia can become a form of escapism. For some reason you may be having difficulty experiencing joy and satisfaction in your life at this time.

Keywords Reversed: In the future, yet to come; also, clinging to the past, not letting go of an old relationship, wallowing in past hurts, retreating into nostalgia.

Timing: 10 Scorpio–20 Scorpio. Tropical, 3 November–12 November. Sidereal, 26 November–5 December.
Astrology: The mighty Sun in the second decan of watery Scorpio, realm of the Waite King/Thoth Prince of Cups (Air of Water) and Death (Scorpio).
Number Symbolism: 6 – harmony, communication, sharing, compassion.

Etteilla: Then! The past, formerly, in the past; age, antiquity, times gone by, decrepitude; (R) the future, in the future, yet to come, renewal, advent, reproduction, regeneration.

When Six of Cups is reversed you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If Six of Cups is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is Six of Cups is trying to tell you.  If you had a particular issue in  mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.

This chosen card is part of your reversed card reading for Six of Cups using cards from the Thoth Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.


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Complete Book of Tarot
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Complete Book of Tarot: The Golden Dawn used number associations in various ways to assign meanings to the tarot cards. One of their fundamental ideas was to pair the thirty-six pip cards numbered two through ten with the thirty-six decans of the zodiac. What is a decan?

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Complete Book of Tarot: When reversed, the Six of Cups can refer to things that will happen shortly or at some unspecified time in the future. This card can also indicate a desire to take refuge in pleasant memories of past pleasures rather than facing your current situation. Nostalgia can become a form of escapism. For some reason you may be having difficulty experiencing joy and satisfaction in your life at this time.

Complete Book of Tarot: Fact 13: All tarot cards are neutral; they merely present universal archetypal images that are part of the human experience. The ‘goodness’ or ‘badness’ of a card depends entirely on what we choose to do with the energy represented. Yin is balanced by yang; every positive in life has its shadow side, and vice versa. A knife in the hands of a surgeon can save a life, but the same knife wielded by a terrorist can wreak havoc. A Zen Buddhist proverb illustrates this idea: A farmer’s horse ran off, prompting the neighbors to lament, ‘That’s bad.’ The next day the horse returned along with three wild horses, and the neighbors declared, ‘That’s good.’ When the farmer’s son broke his leg trying to tame the wild horses, the neighbors commented, ‘That’s bad.’ The next day, the army came to draft the farmer’s son for an impending battle but because of his broken leg, they didn’t draft him. It so happened that all the soldiers who fought in the battle died, but the son survived because of his fractured limb. This time the neighbors kept silent. They had learned the futility of judging situations in terms of black and white, good and bad.

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Complete Book of Tarot: The Golden Dawn’s idea was straightforward. In Western astrology, the zodiac is based on the seasons of the year. Working with the cards numbered two through ten in each of the four suits, the Golden Dawn assigned: