Six of Cups

Upright

nostalgia · kindness · the past visiting

Something sweet from earlier returns — a person, a place, a way of being cared for.

Reversed

stuck in the past · idealising · letting go

A memory kept better than it was, or finally set down.

Why this astrology

The pips two through ten map onto the thirty-six decans, ten degrees of the zodiac each, so Six of Cups is the sun in scorpio · second decan — a planet working through a particular third of a sign. Aces are the root of their element and the courts carry it as temperament.