In divination
A card of the past and of memories, looking back, as—for example—on childhood; happiness, enjoyment, but coming rather from the past; things that have vanished. Another reading reverses this, giving new relations, new knowledge, new environment, and then the children are disporting in an unfamiliar precinct.
Reversed: The future, renewal, that which will come to pass presently.
The library's note
Children play in an old garden, their cups filled with flowers rather than wine, and Waite reads the whole scene as memory's register, "a card of the past, looking back, as, for example, on childhood." He allows an opposite reading too, new surroundings rather than old ones, the same children now cast as strangers to an unfamiliar place. Either way the suit turns backward here, cups' feeling folding inward on itself after the outward grief of the Five, nostalgia standing in for the water this suit otherwise pours forward.