Was he unfaithful?

One question I find the tarot can always accurately answer is ‘ is s/he having an affair’ 

However recently I did a reading where a woman asked,  ‘did he sleep with other people while we were together?’ and she drew 

King pentacles / 9 of swords / 6 cups R / 4 cups. 

She felt he could have been a good boyfriend/ but also felt huge anxiety/ she needed to see the situation very clearly, without rose tinted glasses or being overly romantic/ and she was getting lost in her own thoughts.

That is not a clear answer and I was puzzled.  Usually the cards are really specific around this question.

6 of cups

 

So I asked more about the relationship.  Turned out her big fear was that he would be pressured by his family to have an arranged marriage.

Now I can understand the cards. They indicate that he did not sleep with anyone else while they were together, but he was emotionally unfaithful; he did let his family introduce him to other women.  There was no sex, but he did think about marrying them…   

The second I said that she nodded vigorously, that made complete sense to her.

4 of cups

Those cards, they are so subtle...

6 of cups

This is a complex card, which can have very different meanings depending on where it falls in the reading. It’s a card showing two children, one older than the other, exchanging a gift. It implies nostalgia or gifts from childhood. It’s a card about the small joys of childhood, and how those memories can warm us. Twice lately I’ve found this card in layouts for school teachers. This is card reminding us what children can teach us, and also what our past can teach us. 

But sometimes it’s about being childlike in a situation which requires more adult or astute reactions. Don’t let nostalgia for ‘the good old days’ or rose colored glasses prevent you from seeing the present accurately.