The Lovers
The Lovers symbolizes human love, affection, and the desire to share one's heart with another, emphasizing that love is an active choice rather than a fixed destination. It contrasts attachments born of love, desire, and compassion with societal ties and worldly ambition, and highlights that choosing the path of love may be irreversible. The card acknowledges the possibility of heartbreak along the journey but also the potential for sudden healing and fulfillment. Ultimately, it speaks to mutual attraction, deep-rooted connection, and the ongoing creation of relationship through conscious choice.
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Title
6. The Lovers
Description
The quintessential expression of human love and affection, the Lovers represents the need and desire to share the treasures of our heart with another. While the Hierophant represents the yoke of society and the ties that bind us with worldly ambition, the Lovers symbolizes attachments built from love, desire, and compassion felt between individuals. Pursuing fulfillment of this natural desire for love is but one choice that may be made, and if this path is chosen, one should be aware that it's often a route that can never quite be retraced. Your heart may be broken at each step of the journey, but it can also find healing and fulfillment in an instant. The Lovers reminds us that love is a choice we have every moment of every day. It is not so much a destination as an active creation, and a path from which there is often no turning back.
Divinatory Meanings
A romance; true love; a desire for love; a relationship; the choice between the spiritual life and the domestic life; mutual attraction; an expression of affection; a passionate and deep-rooted connection; a favorable partnership; chemistry and compatibility; a consuming and undeniable crush.
Reversed
An unrequited love; a wrong choice in a romantic matter is made; a breakup; lovers at odds; a rejection of the traditional domestic lifestyle; giving up on finding love; incompatibility; a relationship is not as meaningful or as satisfying as what one had hoped; a broken heart.
Magickal Uses
Excellent for love and romance magick, or in spells and charms to boost the passions or to increase one's charm and attractiveness. Also good for magick intended to end arguments and encourage compassion. Reversed, it can be used to represent quarrels, disharmony, and distance.
Visual Description
Two robed figures stand facing each other on grassy ground near a river, their hands bound together with a blue ribbon. One wears a red robe, the other a grey robe, and both have their hoods up. To the right is a stone altar holding a golden chalice and a small plate, and behind them a bright radiant heart glows in the sky with a cross-like mark at its center. A rainbow arcs across the blue sky above, and trees and reeds frame the riverside scene.
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