The Lovers
The Lovers represents harmony and alignment between two people as well as between the masculine and feminine aspects within a single psyche. It highlights the importance of aligning one's values with one's actions and making major life choices with integrity. The card signifies love, emotional and sexual connection, and a sense of completeness when inner and outer elements are balanced. Its shadow side warns of cognitive dissonance, instability, disharmony, and potential loss when values and actions are not aligned.
Keywords
Card Name
The Lovers
Poem
Love's embrace can be fierce or sweet igniting sparks of intent when the two aspects meet. Yet bliss and danger both lurk here, as love and passion give life to fear. As flames of hunger bite the skin, one wonders if this union is of virtue or sin.
Meaning
The Lovers card is about harmony and alignment, both between two lovers and between the masculine and feminine aspects of a single psyche. The latter is reflected in the fact that both figures are androgynous, displaying both typically masculine and feminine traits — which can exist in anyone regardless of sex.
Meaning (continued)
The Lovers card is also about aligning one's values with one's actions. The shadow cast by The Lovers is one of cognitive dissonance, instability, and disharmony.
Upright keywords
major life choices, harmony, alignment of values, a balanced psyche, love, relationships, sexual connection, emotional connection, romance, desire, completeness
Reversed keywords
disharmony, an imbalanced psyche, trust issues, conflict, separation, lack of accountability, adultery, avoiding responsibility, love lost, broken heart
Visual Description
Inside an oval frame two nude figures are locked in a tender embrace and kiss; one has large pink butterfly wings and flowered pink hair, the other has long dark hair. A pale serpent coils above them against a background of flowering branches and a glowing circular disk. The scene is richly colored in pinks, blues and golds with petals drifting in the air. The card bears the Roman numeral VI at the top and the title 'The Lovers' on a banner at the bottom.
Children of Litha tarot
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