Tarot has been a part of Barbara Moore's personal and professional lives for nearly twenty years. Right from the start, tarot intrigued her with its marvelous blending of mythology, psychology, art, history, mystery, and magic. She has studied under...
Almost everyone likes falling in love or being in love because of the way it makes us feel. This is a complex card about the union of opposites, communion with the Divine, and completion, but at the end of the day it is really about making a choice. Specifically, it is about making a decision that makes you feel as good, as certain, as strong (and maybe even as scared and vulnerable) as being in love makes us feel. The decision can be about any aspect of our lives. The choices can be many or few. What matters with this card is picking the option that resonates with your heart, makes you feel good about yourself, and creates the sense that all is right with the world.
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The Universal Waite card shows the idea of opposites mentioned earlier: man and woman, earth and fire, human and angel, obedience and temptation. There are choices to be made here. The angel represents the all-consuming love for and guidance of the Divine that dwells in our hearts. The angel is huge and the sun is shining brightly on it, indicating that this really is an obvious decision.
Core meaning: Making a decision that makes your heart glad.
#MOUNTAIN
We'll end the journey of this particular lesson with the single mountain in the landscape of The Lovers. It rises to meet a welcoming archangel, who brings the battle of the sexes, all the endless oppositions of the masculine and feminine pillars, to a resolution in an orgasm of union. It is the final act of healing, and the mountain is the experience of coming home at last.
#SUN
The sun in The Lovers is pure Qabalah, though it also accords well with Freemasonry. Everything that was unified in the upper reaches of the Tree of Life becomes openly divided into pairs of polar opposites on the path of The Lovers. From this point onward in the creative process, nothing can be seen or understood without reference to its opposite. There is no light without darkness, no love without hate, no good without evil.
All the pairs of opposites are symbolized by the man and the woman in the picture. But the unifying angel between them shows the way to bring opposites together, and the sun behind the angel is the glory of the middle way from which all opposites emerge and to which, in time, they will all return.
This sun has forty-five rays, referring to the numerical value of the name of
Adam in Hebrew. In Adam, male and female were originally united and will eventually be reunited. The sun reminds you that both sides of every issue need each other and that every apparently irreconcilable argument has a resolution.
#ANGLE
Raphael in The Lovers
• The Lovers: Raphael is the healer, the reconciler, and uniter of all things wounded, sick, broken, and dysfunctional. He is the angel of love and joy.
#FEATHER
In all three cards, an archangel spreads his wings close to the source of a fire, giving them a fiery color. They are redder at the top and more purple or violet lower down, showing the intensity of the heat cooling as the feathers get further from
In The Lovers, the wings of the Archangel Raphael protect the human form from the intolerable blaze of divine energy. They allow a person to stand naked before the eye of God. The path of The Lovers on the Tree of Life is even higher than the spirituality of Tiphereth. It is one of five paths by which you can reach what is perfect in yoursel
