By Sarah Taylor
That there are two major arcana cards this week speaks to a development that transcends the day-to-day, and which focuses on the larger, soul-based themes that direct the flow of life. Your life, to be exact.
To use a rough metaphor, the major arcana are differentiated from the minor arcana in that they are the colours with which you paint your canvas; the minor arcana are the strokes that you use — the detail through which the major arcana show up. Here, there is a particular spectrum to life that is starting to take shape, and this is concerned with a coming together and the choices, and balancing of those choices, that emanate from that.
And, again, we have a Swords card, which over the weeks have created a leitmotif — or recurring sub-theme — which provides a sense of contrast, a throwing into relief of the bigger picture.
The Lovers is described as follows in the cursive writing to the right of the entwined figures: “Twin; Love; Attraction; Approach; Connection; Uniting of Differences.” The card is the first card in the major arcana to have two figures on it. After the evolution from The Fool to The Hierophant — all powerful, single archetypes — The Lovers refers to the manifestation of archetypal experience in human form. It is the first card that is concerned with duality. This is encapsulated in the final phrase, above: “Uniting of Differences.” The differences are the two polarities; The Lovers holds and brings together both, in feminine and masculine form.