The Lovers and Six of Cups

Choice and memory. The Six of Cups is flowers handed over in a remembered place, all innocence and looking back. Beside the Lovers the tradition reads a decision being made with the past heavily in the room, and asks whether the past is informing the choice or making it.

The most nostalgic pairing here. Associated with somebody returning, or with a choice weighed against an earlier one.

A decision shaped by how things used to be. Frequently read where the comparison is not to a real former state.

The Lovers requires a choice between things as they actually are. The Six of Cups is not a reliable witness about that, and the pair says so gently.