From Touchstone TarotTM by Kat Black
Six of Cups
Meanings
Happy memories. Loving care and brotherly protection – although at times that can be a little too smothering. Yearning for the past rather than embracing the present.
Reversed (?)
Look forward. Some painful memories have haunted you in the past, but you are moving on now, and the future is looking brighter.
Description
A young boy and girl sit in a courtyard beside a stately home. They are lavishly dressed and well groomed. The boy holds a cup full of flowers, and five more cups containing flowers sit on a wall in front of them. The sky is bright blue, and a tree shades the courtyard.
Artwork
- Cup: MEMLING, Hans, St John and Veronica Diptych, c.1483, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
- Tree, blue sky: CORTONA, Pietro da, Romulus and Remus Given Shelter by Faustulus, c.1643, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
- Building: AVERCAMP, Hendrick, A Scene on the Ice near a Town, c.1615, National Gallery, London.
- Boy: DYCK, Sir Anthony van, George, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Lord Francis Villiers, 1635, Royal Collection, United Kingdom.
- Girl: BRONZINO, Agnolo, Bia, The Illegitimate Daughter of Cosimo I de' Medici, c.1542, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
- Stone ledge: BOUTS, Dieric the Elder, Mary and Child, c.1465, National Gallery, London.
- Bunches of flowers: HIEPES, Tomás, Still Life with Fruit and Flowers, 1642, private collection.
