The blade is inspired by a mythological scene: the young Hercules, having completed his education with the centaur Chiron, must choose about his future existence. Two young women then appear to him, virtue and softness, which promise him different ways and advantages.
Like the Greek hero, the young man of this arcane hesitates before the austere woman, who prefigures only moral satisfaction, and the courtesan, giver of pleasures; her red and green dress, complementary colors, indicates her human nature, undecided in the face of the question. The virtuous Queen dresses, like the Popess, in red and light blue, the bacchant in yellow and green, the colors of the material.
The Lover is the initiate who has completed the apprenticeship period; Cupid's bow and arrow, which spies on his choice from the sky, put him in relation to Sagittarius, Gemini, and Virgo, to the month of September, to Wednesday, to the element Earth, to the planets Mercury, Neptune, and Venus and to Tiphereth, the Sephirah of beauty, love, attraction, lungs, arms.
The Lovers' blade foreshadows the positive a decisive choice in the emotional field, an important meeting, a platonic love, but also dedication, fidelity, marriage; art, fantasy, harmony, sincerity, happiness, passed exam, good heart health, and circulation, wishes fulfilled, need to undergo a test; beauty, travel, commerce, daily work, hospitals, dietetics; indicates a fickle, indecisive person, a young individual, a relative, children, a heartthrob, a doctor, a pharmacist, an architect, an engineer, an artist, an employee.
In the negative: this arcane symbolizes temptation, infidelity, falseness, separation of the couple, pains of love, doubts; indecision, jealousy, unfinished business to be sifted, disorder, celibacy, backbiting, deception, trial failure, annihilating plans, and broken promises; nervous depression, danger of illness or accident for oneself and loved ones; exhaustion, infertility, belly, ear, and eye health problems. Indicates a double, false, changeable person.
The advive of the arcane
Trust your intuition and act accordingly. The hardest way will be the most profitable.
Pairings
- Near the Hermit: sterility, betrayal.
- Between the Wheel of Fortune and the Chariot: happy turn; plans for life for two.
- Combined with the inverted wheel: the impossibility of realizing one's emotional desires.
- Followed by the Devil: eroticism, mad passion, abortion.
- Preceded by the Tower: love will help the consultant to overcome an existential crisis.
- Followed by the Tower: unexpected pain, sad events, hindered or impeded relationship.
- Near the Moon: perversion, helplessness.
- Accompanied by the World: success achieved thanks to a little effort; an emotional relationship in the public domain.
- Next to the Fool: youthful love, a relationship without a future.
- Combined with any blade of Cups: reciprocated love.
- Accompanied by an arcane of Wands: professional collaboration.
- Next to a card of Coins: prodigality.
