Immediately we see six cups filled with white flowers and children playing under a cloudless sky. Children are a strong indication of innocence; they seem happy and relaxed, enjoying the simple pleasures of life. On the right side we can see a grown man walking towards a building, symbolizing worries that are now gone. The garden is old. This is a card about our past and the foundations the past has left us. The scenery of this card is domestic, calm and peaceful. We could even see this card as a childhood photograph in an old family album. The card is even somewhat nostalgic for innocent and carefree days.
On the card
In an old courtyard or garden, a boy in a red hood bends towards a smaller girl and offers her a cup filled with white, star-shaped flowers. Five more cups, also filled with flowers, stand around them, one of them set on a stone pedestal. Behind the children are old houses and a tower, and a guard with a spear walks away from them in the background.
The scene has the soft quality of memory. The children are dressed in clothes that seem older than their age, as if they belonged to another time, and the whole setting, with its old walls and quiet corners, feels like a place remembered rather than a place visited. The gift of the flowers is simple and freely given, the kind of kindness that asks for nothing back. The figure walking away can be seen as the adult world of duties and worries leaving the scene, or as protection that watches from a distance while the children play. The white flowers suggest innocence and purity of feeling, and the enclosed garden suggests safety. This is the past as a source of comfort and roots.
Upright
Happiness from the past, success based on past effort, kindness, domestic harmony, enjoyment of simple things.
Reversed
Nostalgia, attachment to the past.