Major Arcana · 6
The Loversfor Aries · Self and Identity
"The love is real. The timing is the problem."
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Two figures stand in a garden of eden unsinned but with a guiding angel and a snake beneath their feet. The lovers are about finding balance in feminine and masculine energy, in heaven and hell, in temptation and abstaining.
Strike a balance between the conflicting truths that make up who you are. Feminine and masculine, pleasure and patience. A new balanced love could be open to you. But this card pulls us to hold conflicting ideas in balance to find love
Something is off in a critical relationship (with yourself, with a partner, with a primary attachment figure). The lovers remind us to prioritize balance and love while working through difficult conversations
Its place in the deck.
Where it shows up.
The Lovers for Aries in Self and Identity
The Initiator
Venus against Mars-ruled Aries is relief showing up somewhere Aries had already accepted the difficulty. The suspicion of easy things is part of the pattern here. Upright, this is happening out in the visible world, where other people can see it and respond to it.
When reading about yourself through an Aries lens, the Lovers card says that you feel like your body is a machine to prove something with, a problem to outrun (or overcome), and the only thing you trust because it does what you tell it to. This has either made you physically strong and brave enough to try what others won't, or left you injured and angry at your own body for not cooperating with your will. You have been so focused on who you think you should be that you haven't checked in with who you actually are. The Aries blind spot in it is the feeling that nothing you do makes any difference, that you are not the center of the story.
In practice that can look like something you cannot un-see about yourself, or a season ending. Whatever form it takes, it is happening in the visible world where other people can see it.
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