The Lovers
The Lovers depicts the Fool's confrontation with difficult choices, especially in the arena of love where social expectations and personal desire clash. It emphasizes that some decisions have no clear logical right answer and must be chosen according to the heart and soul. The card highlights an internal struggle between head, heart, and external pressures, suggesting the heart as the truest guide. When reversed, it asks you to examine how you may be denying your desires and what hidden motivations are driving your choices.
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The Lovers
Description
After learning all about the rules, expectations, traditions, and mores of his culture, the Fool faces the challenge of making decisions. The Lovers card might seem to be all about love and romance, and in some ways it is, for it is in the realm of love that we face important choices. Do we pick an "appropriate" partner or do we pick one based on our own desires, even if common sense or tradition suggest otherwise? The Fool, as we all do, has to deal with the internal struggle of what to prioritize when making choices. Does he listen to his head? His heart? His friends and family? The angel at the top of the image suggests that the heart is the truest guiding star.
Divinatory Meaning
In a reading, this card can indicate a romantic situation, although it is much more than that. This is the card of the "hard choice." Hard choices aren't always "big" decisions. Choices are hard when there is no clear logical "right" choice. No pro or con list shows the winning option.
Advice
Because there is no clear, reasonable, justifiable choice in this situation, you must decide based on something else. This card advises that you pick whichever option you feel best aligns with what your heart and soul desires. It's as easy, and as hard, as that.
Reversed
If reversed, ask yourself: How am I denying my own desires? What else, if not my heart, is driving this decision? What is it that I really want but am afraid to acknowledge?
Visual Description
A winged angel with a radiant halo and outstretched wings hovers above two figures who embrace in the foreground. The pair — one dark-haired and the other pale with braided hair tied by a red ribbon — press foreheads together as red ribbons and heart-shaped arrowheads swirl around them. Clouds and a sunburst form the backdrop, and ornate decorative borders frame the scene; a banner at the bottom reads "The Lovers." The palette is dominated by soft pastels, pinks and blues, and the figures wear gold-green jewelry and flowing fabrics.
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