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The Rider-Waite-Smith-Six of Cups Tarot Card is staying with a more mundane meaning than say the more metaphysical Thoth Tarot as it, shows the beginning of pleasure as an image of flowers emerging from the cups. The card is yellow and bright acknowledging the Sun's influence on this card. The scene of the Children in a garden, suggests a card of pleasurable memories. Hence, this is a card reflecting on past childhood memories of happiness, enjoyment, which come from the past things that have vanished. Waite, keeping to his lodge oath, truly shows little of the Arcane in his cards, be they major or minor arcana. Therefore, Pamela Coleman Smith, the artist, was left with mundane pictures that didn't truly convey the deeper arcane meanings. That is the reason Alister Crowley and Lady Frieda Harris collaborated to artfully place all that could be pictured into occult or arcane meaning available in the Thoth Cards---my favorite Tarot Cards. Crowley never liked lodges and believed that this "arcane knowledge" of self should be available to all who dared to seek out their True Self and leave the common controlled paths of the indoctrinated and dogmatized mundane masses.

The Connolly Tarot-6 of Cups represents happiness from the past. This scene replaces the Waite card's white lilies that represent purity with red roses which represent love. However, both cards show the beginning of love and pleasure among family and friends. Therefore, this is a pristine environment, new relationships with past friends and new knowledge where one is meeting old friends. Thereby, signifying a more mundane state of pleasure than the more non-traditional cards of modern Tarot, such as The Thoth Tarot, whose 6 of cups is not about a mundane outer pleasure. but he inner marriage of Animus and Anima, where this inner pleasure is called the "Rapture".

This card also represents nostalgia over the past. There may be reminiscence over past pleasures, or a childhood hurt. In any case be kind to your past self and forgive mistakes, for mistakes are 50% of Wisdom. Correction turns "mistakes" into wisdom.

However, this card also implies the group is much more important than the individual who perceives purpose only in terms of that group. This may be an important phase, as in the case of teenagers who seek out peer support or it may be a problem. Besides a severe attachment to external things, to people and to possessions, is extraordinarily strong and relationships are deeply felt. Hence, there is a strong attachment to material objects which may bring a sense of "'roots" and security.

When the 6 of Cups is thrown in a divination, it implies:

• Emotional pleasure, in a period of 6 weeks or 6 months of giving to and receiving pleasure from others.
• A period of innocence and taking immense pleasure in one's childlike qualities.
• An orgasmic rush of feelings, a wave of ecstasy that even when sad feelings are being actively expressed, the release feels pleasurable.
• Sweet memories of the past, as past efforts bring present rewards.
• Wellbeing, harmony of natural forces without effort or strain.
• The "adorable Fire", a flowing of deep spiritual warmth in a relationship.
• Ease and satisfaction on a deep inner spiritual plane of pleasure.
• Note: Foreign to the Western Hermetic Qabalistic idea of this card, is the gratification of artificial or natural desires, as it is pleasure understood in the highest inner sense.

If Reversed:

• The future.
• Renewal.
• That which will happen presently.
• Moodiness, withdrawal from friends.
• Masochistic behavior. 

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