Tarot Card Meaning • Career

Six of Cups in Your Career

The Six of Cups in work is the return to something you once loved — an old field, a forgotten skill, or a simpler way of doing meaningful work. A cup of flowers changes hands in a garden, and an old dream asks to be taken seriously again.

Upright — Six of Cups in Your Career

The Six of Cups invites you to revisit work you once loved. Like two children trading flowers in a garden, this card points to a return — a field you left behind, an idea you abandoned, or a simpler, more heartfelt approach to your craft. Notice what you loved doing before the world told you what you should do, because that early joy is still a reliable compass. It asks you to bring that forgotten thing forward now, with adult skill and fresh eyes, and to trust that revisiting it could be deeply fruitful rather than a step backward.

Reversed — Six of Cups in Your Career

In reverse, the Six of Cups cautions against romanticizing the past of your career — the old job, the old team, the 'good old days' — to the point of ignoring the work and the opportunity in front of you. The past looks golden mostly because it's finished and can't ask anything of you. Ask whether returning is genuinely wise or just an escape from the present, and let that answer keep you honest.

A question to take with you

Reconnect with one dormant skill or idea this week and test whether it still lights you up. The answer — yes or no — is information, not nostalgia.