major arcana
THROAT CHAKRA
astrology: Gemini ~ mercury
element: Air
Key words
- the "Decision"
- Free Will
- divine union
- partnership in service of God
- the choice to awaken
- "the Unconditional 'Yes'"
- independence from pre-established order
- pure Love
"the synthesis of opposites through love"
"the union between your inner masculine and feminine"
also known as "the Twins" in some decks
the Lovers card is modernly recognized as a card that indicates love, partnership, soulmates, and all of that gooey stuff. But, it's way more than that.
What it's not is a partner that will "make you whole".
It's a partner that awakens in you the truth, that although you may represents opposite polarities, you are One.
Not that you "complete each other",
but that your partner triggers in you the truth that you are apart of everything.
It's a partnership that requires you to suspend your usual order of things, and choose Love
The Lovers Tarot card gives you the opportunity to choose Love and union over separateness ~ over the things that take your focus and energy away from the truth of Unity and the Divine/God.
the Lovers card has deep ties to the mythological and Biblical story of Adam & Eve
and is ultimately all about choice.
If the Lovers card is showing up in a reading for you, you have a choice to make...
You have the opportunity to choose a path of awakening
This choice requires that you step away from "the way things are"; whether deliberately, or as an indirect byproduct of choosing Love, this choice requires a change of what has been done.
This choice invokes independence
This choice requires you to, as Love often does, defy reason, rational, or convention, and prioritize the highest act of service = become one with your heart and "the other"
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this is not a choice between good and evil, but is a choice of whether or not to awaken
This card is also known as "the Unconditional 'Yes'"
This card may ask of you, with whatever decision you're making - leave no energy funneling into an escape route. Go all in on your heart. Unconditionally say Yes. Don't leave room for doubt.
Because choosing Love, means "the old order must be sacrificed if life and love is to flourish"
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Mythology
The story of Adam & Eve
The story of Adam & Eve is one that is subjective, as are so many mythological and Biblical stories, as we don't know how literal they were originally intended.
My gatherings of the story is that Adam & Eve were hanging in the Garden of Eden; naked, pure, with no consciousness of judgment of the self or other. God advised Eve not to eat from the 'Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil'; that she may die if she did so.
While in the Garden of Eden, a snake residing in the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil suggested that she eat an apple from the tree. She relayed God's message to the snake, to which the snake rebutted and said that she would "be like God" and "know about good and evil".
Adam & Eve both ate some of the apple from the Tree, and as a result experienced awareness. They developed consciousness of duality; good and evil, which granted them the ability to be independent and make decisions for themselves. This is why this card has to do with Free Will, independence, and making a choice to awaken.
*something I love, and wondered about when reading this story, was... what would it be like for an apple to grant you higher consciousness? an awakening. then, I thought of how that does exist in our realm, except they're not apples, but psychedelic mushrooms. Did Adam & Eve eat psychedelic mushrooms?
Eve chose to know.
She chose to evolve and gain awareness
some other cool symbols wrapped up in this story...
the Lovers is a #6 card, which many mystics break up as the woman (Eve) and man (Adam) depicted in the card to each represent 3.
The three facets of each person being: conscious, unconscious, and superconscious.
*Adam (which 'Adama' in Hebrew translates to 'Earth') represented the conscious
*Eve (or 'Chaya' in the Old Testament and Torah translates to 'Life') speaks with God, she speaks with the snake - she is the bridge between the earthly realm and the superconscious
*the Rider-Waite Lovers card shows the woman looking towards the Divine, while the man looks towards the woman*
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