An empty crossroads on a heath at night, a leaning signpost and poppy heads in the verge.

Cups · VI

Six of Cups

Lord of Pleasure

The face of Six of Cups, engraved in gold on black, with its title, Lord of Pleasure.

An old sweetness returns. Let memory heal you without asking you to stay.

Upright

Nostalgia, innocence and kindness. Memory, childhood and simple gifts.

Reversed

Living in the past, or a sentimental pull towards what you have outgrown.

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The spirit work

In the Goetia, Gusion resolves questions and reconciles friends by day; Vual procures friendship by night. Write a letter to someone from the past and keep it.

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Correspondences

DecanSun in Scorpio, 10° to 20°, the second face
Tree of LifeTiphareth in Briah
Governing angelsNelchael by day, Yeiayel by night
Image of the decanA naked man and woman; a man sitting on the earth, two dogs fighting before him.
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Day spiritGusion, duke
The seal of Gusion

Appears as a xenopilus (a strange beast of uncertain form). Tells past, present and future, resolves questions, reconciles friends, gives honour. Goetia 11.

Night spiritVual, duke
The seal of Vual

Appears as a dromedary, then a man speaking imperfect Egyptian. Procures love, tells past, present and future, makes friends of foes. Goetia 47.

Six of Cups in the guidebookAll seventy-eight cards

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Notes on sources

The meanings, the questions and the correspondences are the guidebook’s own. The paths, letters and astrology follow the Golden Dawn’s attributions; the angels are the Shem ha-Mephorash, as the deck gives them; the spirits, shown only when you ask for them, are the seventy-two of the Goetia. Where each comes from, and what is old and what is modern, is set out in the guidebook’s Notes on sources and seals.