The Meaning of The Lovers Card in the Tarot System

VI: The Lovers Tarot Card

General Meaning

Planets: Venus, Jupiter

Zodiac signs: Gemini, Leo

Planet in sign: Venus in Taurus

Element: Air

Choice, decision-making, cooperation, partnership, falling in love, union. Multiple options. Multiple partners. The relationship between a man and a woman.

The Lovers card indicates that troubles and trials may lie ahead. You will have to make a choice between two possibilities. These are opposites, like past and future, losses and achievements, the old and the new. A serious conflict may arise — a dispute played out between the heart and the mind.

This card clearly shows that the choice will be extremely difficult for you, and you will be torn between two options. Still, you must show willpower, because your choice will shape how events unfold in both the near and distant future. Moreover, the decision will affect your personal life, career, studies, family matters and travel. It is important to understand that The Lovers is fundamentally a positive card.

It is hard for you to decide and settle on one thing, yet you have enough wisdom to avoid making a mistake with your decision. You hold on to kindness and trust your soul. The card may also point to a decision in the romantic sphere, where you will find the courage to confess your love. Sometimes this arcanum indicates that fate will test your strength, or that a trial must be passed.

The Lovers Card in Different Tarot Decks

Meaning in Situations

First and foremost, the appearance of this card signifies a romantic adventure — but an adventure that will lead you to a very important, perhaps even fateful, decision. It may mean settling a sexual relationship or, possibly, marriage. However, The Lovers advises weighing all the options very carefully before making any decision. The card can mean that you stand on the threshold of a new stage of development, or at a crossroads. A new personal relationship or partnership may be beginning for you. If you asked about your health, it promises recovery.

In a spread that concerns not the personal sphere but work, business or money, it means a choice. In a relationship spread — love in its pure form (it does not speak of sexual relations). Its influence is strengthened alongside The Empress, The Hierophant and Strength. It can signify balance.

Work

A dating agency. A balanced state of affairs. Speaks of the need to make a decision, though there is still time to think it over. Never a bad omen. Can mean a vacation, more rarely an office romance. A choice may present itself in a job search. Stable, reasonable income (neither too much nor too little).

Health

A stable condition. Nothing to worry about.

Relationships

Love. Does not signify marriage. Sometimes speaks of a person who cannot decide — her or someone else? The wife or the mistress?

Personality Type

Very charming, sexually attractive. Talented (art, science, business). Active, sociable, an organizer.

Advice and Warning

In relationships — love, show your affection. May speak of a situation involving a very important choice for the future. The advice is to bring order and restore harmony.

Yes or No

Mostly “yes” (if the question is asked in a favorable way). Sometimes it may speak of a difficult situation that will resolve itself if the person makes an independent choice.

Reversed Card Meaning

You may encounter unhappy love, or serious intimate problems may arise in your relationship with a loved one. The card creates an atmosphere of chaos in which it is hard to think through your decisions rationally and act sensibly. Illusions gradually push common sense out of your head, and the querent makes mistakes. For example, you lose sight of your goal and head in the wrong direction. The card shows that you are confused and caught in inner conflict. You risk failing the test and being unable to cope with life's difficulties. Serious problems may arise in your dealings with other people. You cannot express your needs clearly because you do not understand exactly what you want. Your actions will attract problems and troubles and lead to failures. Your plans lack realism, so do not count on them coming true.

The appearance of this card in the reversed position means that you have hurt someone's feelings, or someone else has hurt yours. You may have missed the chance to begin a new relationship. A separation or the breakdown of a relationship may await you. The card speaks of contradictions that prevent you from making an important decision. On the other hand, it warns you against hasty decisions or judgments, because your future fate depends on your choice. That is exactly why you must learn to answer for your actions and take responsibility for the decisions you make. The reversed Lovers can also speak of a divided personality and a conflict with yourself.

Reversed Meaning: Work

Time for immediate action, before it is too late. You need to give a clear answer to an offer.

Reversed Meaning: Health

A crisis caused by the worsening of an illness. The onset of an illness.

Reversed Meaning: Relationships

A decisive moment, an important conversation (it is unclear how it will unfold); there is no threat, but there is stress. Jealousy (if it comes as the answer to the question: “what are they thinking?”).

Reversed Meaning: Personality Type

Decisive, unwavering, has already made a choice (which one? — the other cards will tell).

Reversed Meaning: Advice and Warning

Do not delay the decision. Answer right away.

Reversed Meaning: Yes or No

Most often “yes” (of the many alternatives, this is the most correct decision — do not hesitate to follow the advice).

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VI Guided Tarot Meditation “The Choice”

This meditation is dedicated to The Lovers arcanum of the Rider-Waite Tarot. The Lovers arcanum speaks of love, unity and choice — when logic comes into union with intuition, finding the inner balance between the masculine and feminine sides.

In this meditation you can find answers to questions such as:

• How do I handle the relationships in my life?
• Who do I truly love?
• Who truly loves me?
• What should I choose — a career or a business?
• In which area of life will I find fulfillment?
• Should I change something in my life, or stay where I am?

The meditation also suits people who wish to understand this Tarot arcanum more deeply and feel its energy. It can be especially helpful if you have been unable to make a decision or a choice for a long time.

Do you feel inner contradictions between your mind and your heart? Does it happen that your emotions sometimes pull you into bad decisions, even though rationally you understand you are making a mistake? How many of your recent purchases turned out to be useful, and how many proved unnecessary and ended up in the trash — simply because, when buying them, you were guided purely by emotion, ignoring the voice of reason? Mind and feelings must be in harmonious union for you to live easily, wisely and happily, and to reap the fruits of right decisions. The meditation “The Choice” is an excellent practice for balancing heart and mind.