Tarot card meanings · Major Arcana 6
What does The Lovers mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Lovers upright means “Attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome”, and reversed “foolish designs”.
Upright
Attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Foolish designs.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
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.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 2
Where does the Lovers fall in a reading?
The Lovers belongs to the Major Arcana. On this site you draw three cards, which take three of the places in the ten-card method Waite describes: “This covers him”, “This crosses him”, “This is before him”. The same card reads differently in each place, and the I Ching cast beside it may agree or disagree.
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Draw three cardsWaite's words are quoted as printed, and left out where they speak of money, law, illness or disaster. The pictures are the 1909 deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. For entertainment and self-reflection.