Lovers

-9.  Lovers

The Lovers card exemplifies pure, heart-felt love. Just as the rose blossom welcomes the bees to partake of its nectar, so the Lovers open their hearts to give and receive love with one another. The Lovers card offers a love that is without condition. It has no ulterior motive. It has no restraints or limitations. It is a love that is long-lasting, sustainable, and ever-growing. Deep and abiding, it has endured the test of time. Despite its maturity, it retains a quality of passion and intrigue, a living witness to the mystery and wonder of love. If this card has appeared today, you offer an open and loving heart. You are engaged in something beautiful and profound. Receive the grace of rare and pure love.

If this card was pulled with the intent to provide advice:

The Lovers card reminds us to offer an open and loving heart. Purify your thoughts, mind, and actions through the filters of compassion and unconditional love. Give freely. Receive openly. Be the ever-flowing stream of true and lasting love.

Key descriptors:

Passion, true love, the intoxication of living, open-heartedness, heart-centeredness, ecstasy, unconditional love, pure love, calculated risk, willing seduction, losing oneself to love.

Introspection:

  • Where am I called to be fully present or unbridled right now?

  • Is there a situation, person, or opportunity that I can open my heart fully to?

  • Can I find love, even in tragedy?

Advanced play:

Native Dimension: Adventure
Incompatible: -9 <> -22: Lovers (love) / Poppy (greed)