Six of Cups — The Institutional Memory

▲ Upright +1

Someone on the team remembers why the code is like that. The Six of Cups is institutional memory — the engineer who was there when the original architecture decision was made and can tell you, unprompted, which three things will break if you change that config. This knowledge is a gift. Write it down before they leave.

▽ Reversed -1

Nostalgia as a blocker. 'We tried that in 2019 and it did not work' — said about a completely different system, by someone who cannot let go of how things used to be. The Six of Cups reversed is the team anchored to a past that no longer applies, vetoing good ideas with outdated war stories.