six of pentacles and six of cups

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 03 Jul 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.

destinyawaitsme	03 Jul 2002
The past three days I've had some weird...well, interesting daily readings. I have been drawing 3 cards (challenge, advice, outcome) 2 of the 3 days Judgement has been the challenge card. I am pretty sure I know what this means, but I needed some help as to what the advice cards mean. The first two days I got the 6 of pentacles. I thought it was possible that I just wasn't shuffling good enough so I gave it a good shuffle. and I got Judgement, 6 of cups, and king of cups. I'm just having trouble determining what this could mean. The 2 cards are both sixes and if you look at them (RiderWaite) you can see that they both show giving and recieving....but still..I'm drawing a blank here. Any insight on these 2 would be appreciated. Thanks in advance,

Geenius at Wrok	03 Jul 2002
6:OS is the card of charity. Sometimes it's an exhortation to be generous and compassionate, but more often it's telling you something about your own resources: knowledge, power, material security. Specifically, it addresses the belief that those things are sort of out of your hands, that you receive them by someone else's grace. External locus of control, if you speak psych jargon. 6:CS is a card of childhood and innocence. There's a romantic aspect to it, and a happy, peaceful aspect that stands in contrast to the more desperate overtones of 6:OS. The giving in this case is not charitable but affectionate, a token of kindness rather than an act of benevolence. 6:OS: "I am giving you this because you need it." 6:CS: "I am giving you this because I feel like giving you something." 6:CS and K:CS together might signify a process in which you let go of grown-up cynicism and mistrust and thereby become a more tolerant and compassionate person—a better sort of adult than the person who's lost his childhood simplicity but found nothing better to replace it with. I lean even more strongly toward this interpretation given that these two cards follow the "rebirth" of Jmt. Birth, childhood, adulthood—how classic a storyline is that? You didn't say what card 6:OS was followed by, so I can't comment on how they would relate to each other.

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