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Six of Cups Tarot Card Meaning and Art Visconti A Tarot Deck Fragment

Designation

Six of Cups

About the Deck

Visconti A Tarot Deck Fragment

(aka Cary-Yale Tarot Deck or Visconti di Madrone Tarot Deck) One of the earliest Tarot Decks, the Cary Yale Visconti Deck is entirely gilded, with fine paintings upon it. Like the other Visconti decks, it features numerous heraldic devices. Unlike the other Visconti decks, it features a maid and a lady among the court cards.

Traditionally said to have been commissioned by Fillipo Maria Visconti for the 1441 marriage of Bianca Maria Visconti to Francesco Sforza I.

Provenance

Italy, c. 1441.

Tags

cups-6, six-of-cups, six, cups

According to Many Schools of Thought

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

Obstacles insuperable. Widowhood. Separation.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Upright

Pleasant memories.

Reversed

Inheritance to fall in quickly.

Mme. Le Normand's Divinatory Meanings

Good fortune. Happiness. Reverses. Troubles.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

The Past, passed by, Faded, Vanished, Disappeared

Reversed

The Future, that which is to come, Shortly, Soon.

Mme. Le Marchand's Divinatory Meanings

much domestic happiness; every year a christening; children will receive rich presents from godfathers and godmothers.