Card of the Day for September 15 - The Lovers

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THE LOVERS  6

The Lovers card is represented by the number 6, which stands for responsible relationships of all kinds and the desire to relate personally – but with a sense of duty or obligation.

Attribution – Gemini

Rider-Waite Imagery

There are three figures on the lovers card. The 2 human figures are nude. This represents their openness, vulnerability and equanimity. They accept things exactly how they are. They can also see things very clearly, nothing is hidden. A man on the right is looking at the woman on the left. She is looking up at the angel above. The Angel is looking down at the two figures. The man represents conscious thought. The woman represents unconscious or sub-conscious thought. The angel represents super-conscious thought or your higher self.

The lesson from this card is to become in touch with your intuitive self and higher self. When these three are working in proper relationship with each other you can clearly see things how they are. A main issue this card represents is learning about choices and discernment.

The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)

Part I: The Veil and its Symbols

6. The Lovers or Marriage. This symbol has undergone many variations, as might be expected from its subject. In the eighteenth century form, by which it first became known to the world of archaeological research, it is really a card of married life, shewing father and mother, with their child placed between them; and the pagan Cupid above, in the act of flying his shaft, is, of course, a misapplied emblem. The Cupid is of love beginning rather than of love in its fullness, guarding the fruit thereof. The card is said to have been entitled Simulacyum fidei, the symbol of conjugal faith, for which the rainbow as a sign of the covenant would have been a more appropriate concomitant. The figures are also held to have signified Truth, Honour and Love, but I suspect that this was, so to speak, the gloss of a commentator moralizing. It has these, but it has other and higher aspects.

Part II: The Doctrine Behind the Veil

The sun shines in the zenith, and beneath is a great winged figure with arms extended, pouring down influences. In the foreground are two human figures, male and female, unveiled before each other, as if Adam and Eve when they first occupied the paradise of the earthly body. Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it. The figures suggest youth, virginity, innocence and love before it is contaminated by gross material desire. This is in all simplicity the card of human love, here exhibited as part of the way, the truth and the life. It replaces, by recourse to first principles, the old card of marriage, which I have described previously, and the later follies which depicted man between vice and virtue. In a very high sense, the card is a mystery of the Covenant and Sabbath.

The suggestion in respect of the woman is that she signifies that attraction towards the sensitive life which carries within it the idea of the Fall of Man, but she is rather the working of a Secret Law of Providence than a willing and conscious temptress. It is through her imputed lapse that man shall arise ultimately, and only by her can he complete himself. The card is therefore in its way another intimation concerning the great mystery of womanhood. The old meanings fall to pieces of necessity with the old pictures, but even as interpretations of the latter, some of them were of the order of commonplace and others were false in symbolism.

UPRIGHT

Love, romance, partnership, union, engagement, marriage.

Choices offered.

Trust.

Beauty, grace, dance.

Feng shui.

A love affair with a trial or choice attached.

A possible love triangle.

Excessive emotions.

Body chemistry that repels or attracts.

Harmony of the inner and outer, the embodiment of the harmony of opposites.

Conflict between desire and intellect.

Rely on intuition and not authority.

Creating a balanced situation.

The drawing together of opposites.

Difficulties overcome.

Productive alliances.

Discernment.

A fork in the road.

How would someone else solve this problem?

Love the soul within rather than fighting the reflection the rest of the world sees.

Carefully consider all the ramifications and consequences of a major decision before acting.

Conserve both opposites, in peace.

REVERSED

Making a choice that won’t fulfill you.

Choosing a partner for appearance rather than personality.

Attraction to characteristics that are unsuitable and will cause pain in the long run.

Loneliness.

Rebellion against authority.

Separation from loved ones.

Frustrated relationships.

Past relationships that block current/future relationships.

Danger of psychic crisis.

Infidelity, adultery, failed love affair, love on the rebound.

Difficult decisions or inability to make decisions.

Wrong choices.

Confusion.

Entwinement in earlier relationships.

Handling a chaotic relationship.

Temptation.

Doubts.

Resignation.

Bad tastes, low tastes, crudeness.

Colour blindness.

1. Greenwood
2. Faery Wicca
3. Celestial
4. Mythic
5. Sidhe
6. Master

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