Six of Cups

Artist: Mia Timlin

The Six of Cups is the card of nostalgia. It is a depiction of the purity of childhood and the things that can come out of that: safety, generosity, compassion, playfulness. But it can also represent an ability to accept the past for what it really was—too look at childhood through rose-tinted glasses. It can hold you back from growing or represent an inability to move forward. My card places two youngest-sibling characters from children’s literature and puts them in the middle of a fragmented fairytale garden. They are surrounded by magical elements, but they feel patched together—unreal.