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The Lovers Tarot Card Meaning
The Lovers tarot card means love, union and a choice made from the heart. A real connection, and a choice.
Upright
- Love
- union
- a choice made from the heart
Reversed
- Disharmony
- a hard choice avoided
- mismatched values
Yes or no
Yes
The Lovers is card VI of the 22 major arcana.
What the card shows
A naked man and woman stand beneath an angel whose wings spread across a blazing sun. Behind the woman is a fruit tree with a serpent coiled round it, and behind the man a tree with leaves of flame. A mountain rises between them.
This is the card as drawn by Pamela Colman Smith for the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck, which is in the public domain.
Upright meaning
The Lovers is read as a close bond and as a choice. It points to a relationship built on honesty and shared values, and to decisions where you have to pick what you truly want over what is easy.
The Lovers reversed
Reversed, it is read as two people out of step, a choice being put off, or acting against your own values.
Yes or no?
In a yes or no question, The Lovers is usually read as a yes. Readers differ on some cards, so treat this as one common reading. You can ask a yes or no question and draw a card for it.
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