1. Tarot
2. Card meanings
3. The Lovers

Major Arcana · VI

The Lovers

• attraction
• love
• beauty
• trials overcome

Upright meaning

Attraction, love and beauty, and trials overcome. Waite calls it the card of human love. It also speaks of choice: what you value and choose to stand beside.

Reversed meaning

Reversed, Waite notes foolish designs. A gentle prompt to check whether a plan matches what you truly value.

• foolish designs

Symbolism

Beneath a great winged figure and a high sun, two people stand unveiled before each other, a tree behind each.

Group

Major Arcana

Element, astrology

Not given by Waite, so we give none

Source

Our own plain-English summary of A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London: Rider, 1911), Part II §2 (symbolism); Part III §3 (divinatory meanings). The keywords are Waite’s own words. Waite’s fortune-telling lists also contain harsher terms; we keep to the reflective readings he gives and never state an event as certain.

Tarot is a tool for reflection, not a prediction of fixed outcomes. This is not medical, legal or financial advice.