When you meet someone special, you try to learn all you can about them starting with things you can easily connect on. Likewise the Lovers card is one of the first Tarot cards most people learn well. It’s a simple card on the surface just like a budding new romance. However, just like that romance, give the Lovers card time to show you it is just as deep as any other Tarot card in the Major Arcana.
Suit: Major Arcana
Element(s): Air
Numerology: 15
Planetary Ruler(s): Mercury
Zodiac(s): Gemini
Most people seek this card when they meet someone new that they hope is “the one”. That is fine for the rose-colored glasses moment, but Tarot isn’t just roses and rainbows. It, like any other art, mirrors life. Beyond the surface meaning of love is understanding, forgiveness, knowing you don’t always see eye-to-eye but choosing the other person anyway, and a lot of trust. The Lovers card seeks to teach that once that initial giddiness is stripped away you must have a foundation to stand on that can bridge your differences. Otherwise, there is no hope for partnerships to last through the Tarot journey or the journey of life.
Upright Meaning
Choices, commitment, partnership, relationship, harmony, duality, trusting, security
Reversed Meaning
Failure, disharmony, infidelity, separation, distrustfulness, uncertainty, plans gone awry
Important Symbols
- Lovers
- Partners on opposite sides
- Balancing each other while meeting on equal ground
- Angel
- Rising above disharmony
- Seeing the bigger picture
- Sun
- New beginnings and Hope – Dawn
- Losing light/sight – Dusk
- Tree of Knowledge
- Temptation to stray away
- Understanding even if it’s not the answer you want
- Tree of Life
- Keeping secluded
- Burning passion
