Six of Cups and Six of Swords

The past and the leaving of it. The Six of Cups looks back with real fondness; the Six of Swords is a slow crossing away from something. The tradition reads the pair as departure that is not a rejection: the thing behind was genuinely good, and it is still behind.

Associated with moving on from a relationship that was not a mistake. The pair is unusually gentle and unusually final.

Leaving somewhere you were happy. Read as growth rather than as escape, which distinguishes it from most departure pairings.

The Six of Swords carries its passengers with their possessions. Nothing in this pairing asks you to pretend the past was worse than it was.