Thoth Tarot · Minor Arcana
Six of Cups — Pleasure
Pleasure
pleasure · wellbeing · harmony · joy · fertility
A reflective starting point
What is Six of Cups — Pleasure asking you to look at?
Meaning changes with the position, the surrounding cards and your question. Take what follows as a language, not a verdict.
Upright
A period of joy and emotional harmony: welcome it with gratitude and let it renew your energies.
At first sight
Pleasure, wellbeing, emotional and physical harmony. It points to a period of joy, of health regained, of satisfaction in relationships and of desires that find natural fulfilment.
Within you
The ability to enjoy love and life without guilt and without excess; the emotional balance that makes pleasure nourishing and not compulsive.
On the path
Water in Tiphareth, the harmonious heart, with the Sun in Scorpio in the second decan: solar fire warms the deep waters. Pleasure is emotion in balance, the joy born of vital fullness.
The shadow
Ill-dignified, it signals hedonism, vanity, a pursuit of superficial pleasures.
Reversed
In the Thoth tradition a reversed card is read through its dignity with the neighbouring cards; this is its shadow side.
Pleasure that runs out or becomes habit; difficulty enjoying, nostalgia for a past wellbeing.
In love, work and spirit
Love. A harmonious, sensual relationship, wellbeing as a couple, a rediscovery of shared pleasure.
Work. Satisfaction, a positive climate, calm successes achieved without forcing.
Spirit. Pleasure as an expression of grace: sensuality made holy by awareness.
Correspondences
Tiphareth · Water · Sun in Scorpio
Crowley's note
In the Thoth deck six lotuses pour water into six cups without making them overflow: pleasure in its perfect measure, fertility without excess.
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