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By Sarah Taylor
There is a choice at hand, and one that has the potential to bring you face-to-face with aspects of your deeper, more hidden nature. Choose what it is that you want, while opening your mind to the creative possibilities in the choosing itself, and with the knowledge that you need not become slave to anything. Playfulness and a sense of open enquiry are your allies.
A rich, intense reading this week — both visually and figuratively. The prevailing idea that comes to me is that of choice, embodied in The Lovers, but it is choice that is qualified and shaped by the other two cards in the reading: The Devil and the Page of Cups.
Let’s look at The Lovers first. It is a more complex card than its name immediately suggests. Yes, there is a man and a woman, and, yes, there is the potential in the picture for them to come together — as they do in the image the card evokes: that of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. But Adam and Eve are not just lovers. They also represent the [G]enesis of the polarisation of male and female, and the choices that come into play when you stand face-to-face with another. What’s theirs? What’s yours? What is held between?
Therein lies the charge to the card. We are simultaneously looking in the mirror while we bear witness to someone, and something, else’s presence. Although the woman is turned towards the man, she isn’t looking at him. Instead, she looks up at the angel between them, a divine mediator.