About the Card
English Name(s)
Love, The Lover(s)
Correspondences
- Grand Etteilla: Card Number 13
- Tarot de Marseille: Trump VI
Image Description
Two giggling Harlequins meet at an elaborate fountain. One wears a jacket and pants while the other wears a long dress. Both have the same red, black, white, and green pattern and carry red and blue batons decorated with gold leaves. At the top of the fountain, a small winged Harlequin in pink and black posts on one leg, holding a bow and aiming an arrow at the lady-Harlequin.
Further Notes
There is no Love card in the Etteilla tradition – the Lovers and the Pope are wrapped into one trump named the High Priest, which shows a priest marrying a couple. The keywords for this card were taken directly from that one.
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Meanings
Upright
Marriage, wedding, nuptials, alliance, meeting, link, assembly, pledge, promise, oath, intimacy, liaison, junction, conjunction, copulation, coupling, chain, bondage, discomfort, captivity.
Reversed
Union, society, contacts, cohabitation, adultery, incest, alloy, blending mixing, amalgam, peace, concord, accord, harmony, coexistence, reconciliation, mending, patching things up.