The Lovers

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The Fool, The Magician, The High Priestess, The Empress, The Emperor, The Hierophant, The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength, The Hermit, The Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, The Moon, The Sun, Judgement, The World.
Wands Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King.
Cups Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King.
Swords Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King.
Pentacles Ace 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King.
Aces, Twos, Threes, Fours, Fives, Sixes, Sevens, Eights, Nines, Tens, Pages, Knights, Queens, Kings

A tarot card. Position 6 in the Major Arcana.

Contents

Description

Rider Waite Deck

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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 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.

Meanings

  • discrimination, smell
  • Decisions, abillity to decide things
  • Develop an understanding of the interdependant relationship between the superSelf and The Other
  • love, erotic love rather than agape
  • puberty, awaking to sexual love, the interplay of dependence/independence of others
  • awakening to reason, developing decision making skills (the present of the snake in the paradise garden)

Reversed Meaning

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Correspondences

  • Links Binah to Tiphareth as path number 17 of the Tree of Life
  • Colour orange
  • Gemini in the zodiac
  • The direction East-above (from the Sepher Yetzirah)
  • Yetziratic Intelligence - the Disposing intelligence
  • Musical note D (Paul Case)
  • Hebrew letter HEBREW:Zain meaning Sword and also the number 7
  • Organic Time - The Cambrian Explosion The linking of single-celled organisms into multicellular organisms that can replicate their forms. What's more important than Love when loving another? Understanding them as another individual in the system, living with you in the universe, not living for you to love. It's called teamwork, baby. <i/>In Time, everyone is together, every Other Self is part of It/Us/You.</i>


External Links

Resources

  • Waite, A.E. (1911) The Pictoral Key to the Tarot: Being Fragments of a Secret Tradition Under the Veil of Divination. London: Rider.
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