tarot card meanings · major arcana · VI
the lovers — tarot card meaning
- love
- choice
- union
- alignment
The card of human love as part of the way, the truth and the life - and of the choice it demands (Waite, 1911).
reversed
Reversed: disharmony, avoidance of choice, temptation — the same force turned inward, blocked, or overdone.
- disharmony
- avoidance of choice
- temptation
two philosophical anchors, cited
The ladder of love · Plato, Symposium 211c (Diotima) (tr. Jowett)
“Begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty.”
Love of one person, honestly pursued, becomes an education in what is worth loving at all.
The self as friend or enemy · Bhagavad Gita 6.5 · after Besant
“Let a man raise himself by his own self; the self alone is the friend of the self, and the self alone is its enemy.”
Every union is also a choice about which version of yourself you feed.
the question we would ask
Does this choice enlarge what you love, or only what you want?
how a reading is composed — and why it ends with a question, not a prediction.