The Lovers - Meaning of The Lovers in Tarot Cards

The Title for The Lovers Tarot card is, ‘The Children of the Voice, The Oracle of the Mighty God’. The image is that of a young prophet in the sign of Osiris risen. The Lovers can be related to the  impact of inspiration on intuition, resulting in illumination and liberation - the sword striking off the fetters of habit and materialism, Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the Dragon of fear and the waters of Stagnation. The colours that can be related to The Lovers Tarot card are orange, violet, purplish grey and pearl grey.

The flashing colour of orange gives deep vivid blue while the flashing colour for violet is golden yellow. The flashing colours may always be introduced if they bring out the essential colour meaning more clearly. In practice, this card usually signifies sympathetic understanding. The Lovers Tarot card can be related to inspiration. This card can be considered to be passive and in some cases neutral, unlike, The Magician, The Hierophant and The Prophet. Motive, power and action arising from inspiration and impulse are other things that can be related to The Lovers Tarot card.

The Lovers Tarot card is all about love affairs and love. But, this card usually implies a doubt or hesitation about the position of a relationship. A weak Lovers card shows a lack of faith in our ability to make choices. There can be an obsession about choice with this card. Of course, choice is not necessarily wide, but we are given the illusion that there is more on offer. Making a choice does not have to be unalterable; you can change your mind, but do it because the merits of the choice have changed.

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.

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.