Upright: Passion, Devotion and unification of opposites, Choice to be made, A new love comes into your life, Excitement and pleasure, Temptation and attraction, Harmony between the inner and outer aspect of life, Sexuality, Sensuality, Union, Pleasure, Desire, Attraction, Affinity, Bonding, Romance, Love, Heart, Body, Tension, Infatuation, Eros, Joy, Eroticism, Oath, Alliance, Decision, Feelings, affection.
Reversed: Tension, Temptation, unattainable ideal of love, repressive neurosis, Poor choices, adolescent crushes, parental meddling or other interference in relationships. An affair or relationship gone sour. A breakup. Quarrels and the need to stabilize your emotions. A choice made out of haste or fear.
Message of The Lovers:
We are your erotic desires, wants, and needs that feed creativity. We embody the choices you make in your life. We are the Union of opposites in what you attract. We represent the wave of desire and attraction you feel toward people and objects. Our energy keeps humanity moving forward. We urge you to choose wisely, passionately, and feel everything.
""I will be loving and good to myself and follow the path of unconditional love towards others.""
Have I found a balance regarding the male, female, and non-binary aspects of myself?
What binds me to__________? How does my philosophy of life inform this relationship?
The Lovers as an Action:
As an action to take, the Lovers represents all that needs to be done to remain in harmony which leads to growth with a loved one, an family, a business partner or yourself. "Love" is not something that you declare once and it's done. Love in action requires identifying the barriers to clear communication and removing them. Love in action is anticipating the needs of another. Love is a work, an action, of justice, mercy, forgiveness, and compassion.
The Lovers as Advice :
Do not expect from a partner what only the marriage of your internal disparate parts can give you. Inner Peace, salvation, fulfillment must be nourished in your own heart before sharing with other/s. “ Love yourself and it doesn't matter who you marry.”(Eva M. Zurhorst)
The Lovers as Desires in a Person:
Physically the desire can be passion or lust. Mentally, the desire is for a meeting of the minds.
The Lovers as Desires in a Situation :
The upright Lovers points to a positive union in most situations.
The Lovers as Feelings about a Situation :
You have the possibility of combining two opposing things into a positive outcome. How can you bring harmony and enlightenment to this situation?
The Lovers as Feelings for Someone :
The Lovers can represent the positive feelings of love, compassion, desire, and devotion. Negatively, the card can represent indecisiveness, lust, self-indulgence, or bad choices. Pay attention to determine what is being directed towards you.
The Lovers as an Outcome:
In the outcome position in a tarot reading, The Lovers gives hope that a new relationship is possible. This can be in love or business. Also, it can be the possibility of developing a better relationship with your beloved. This is the reconciliation of opposites. What anger, fear, or hurt can you put aside to begin anew?
The Lovers as a Person:
As a person, The Lovers represent a lover, a spouse, a partner, or the Union of your Mind and Heart, Body and Soul.
The Lovers as Timing:
The Lovers are associated with the sign Gemini(May 21st to June 20th). Things are moving quickly. Also, nights of love, particularly the first night of love or the first union with a new partner.
The Lovers as Yes/No:
Yes
Archetype: Eros
Astrology: Gemini (The Twins): May 21st to June 20th, Also, Venus/Mars or the higher plane of Sun/Moon
Element: Air
Rune: Yr (“z” sound): Bow made from the Yew tree, the movement of the waxing/waning Moon
Stones: carnelian, red coral, agate
Tree of Life (Kabbalah): The connection between Binah and Tiphareth
Numerology: 6= hexagram, six pointed star, the number of the union of opposites and of mutual penetration
Ogham tree and Letter: Rowan tree, Luis/L
Plant/Fragrance/Essential Oil: musk, sandalwood, dragon’s blood
Day/Sabbath/Ritual: nights of love, consummationCartomantic interpretation, Levi(1855): The Hebrew letter Vau, Vice, and Virtue. Interlacement, lingam( the Hindu term for phallus, which Levi introduces in his “Doctrine of Transcendental Magic” as a kabbalistic symbol of Venus)
This is love:
to fly toward a secret Sky,
to cause one hundred veils to fall each moment.
First, to let go of life.
Finally, to take a step without feet.
A life without love is of no account. Don’t ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western. Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! The universe turns differently when fire loves water.
I yearned for You,
Before Our Time,
Anticipating...
Love Divine,
In Dreams of Night,
And Dreams of Day,
I practiced all,
We'd do and say,
Our speech with Music,
Art, replete,
My secrets safe,
Within Your keep,
Affection sought and
Given freely,
Our skin enmeshed,
Entwined so sweetly,
Desiring True Love's
Beating Heart,
To drum sweet Passion,
From the start,
Mind to mind,
Soul to soul,
Communion Union,
Breathes Us Whole,
We were Before,
and will Again,
Be ever joined,
In Spiral Spin,
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.