Pamela Colman Smith · RWS deck
The Minor Arcana
Six of Cups
Tiphereth in Briah
- Suit
- cups
- Rank
- Six
- World
- Briah
- Station
- Tiphereth
- Verb
- I create
Tiphereth, identity
Tiphereth is the centre: what identity looks like in this world. The Six is what recognition at the centre intends, and the Ten shows what actually arrives.
Upright
Flowing. The self at ease giving what it has made: generosity from an identity rooted in its source. In the world of creation, the centre is a self that has nothing to prove, and what it gives is simply what it is.
Misdirected. Living as an earlier version of yourself, or giving that keeps the other small.
Reversed
Blocked. The self cannot give from its roots, cut off from its source.
Flooded. Giving from the past without limit, nostalgia flooding the present.
The image
In a quiet courtyard a small boy offers a cup full of white flowers to a smaller child. More cups of flowers stand around them, and a guard walks off in the background. The picture fits the station only partly. It shows the giving, and less of the identity it comes from.
Learn how to read Six of Cups in a spread
This page shows you what Six of Cups means. Knowing how to read it — how it shifts next to the other cards, what the reversal is really telling you, and how to turn a spread into a clear answer — is what the RWS Decoded course and book teach, card by card.
