Six of Cups and Seven of Cups

Memory becoming fantasy. The Six looks back at something that genuinely happened; the Seven is seven cups in the clouds holding treasures, a face, a dragon, none of them chosen and not all of them real. The tradition reads the run as the past being embroidered.

Associated with an idealised version of something that was more ordinary at the time. Read as a warning delivered kindly.

Nostalgia for a former role or era, and unreal expectations built on it. Frequently read where somebody wants to go back.

The Seven of Cups is the deck at its most direct about illusion. Whatever the Six is remembering, the pair suggests checking it against what was actually the case.