Cups · Minor Arcana
Children in an old garden, their cups filled with flowers.
Two children in a sunlit garden, one giving the other a cup of white flowers. The old house stands behind them. This is the soft remembering — the taste of something your earlier self once knew and forgot.
Element
Water
Numerology
6— love, responsibility, balance restored, nurture
What the card says to you is truer than what anyone else says it means.
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Children in an old garden, their cups filled with flowers.
Source: “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” by A.E. Waite (1910). Public domain.
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