Major Arcana Series- the Lovers Card

The tarot writing project presents you today the Lovers card.

The general overview of the situation:

The lovers represent relationships, and how we relate to others. The situation you are in requires a choice between two paths or two love choices. The zodiac sign that rules this sign is Gemini and the element is air. Gemini attributes give you the ability to communicate rapidly, with ease and clarity and be independent.

Issues and Problems:

Some of the challenges facing this card are that you are idealizing a relationship and are in love with love or are dating two people at the same time. You must be careful when deciding whether your feelings are real love or just lust or infatuation. There is also the risk of temptation or indecision and you must avoid that at all costs. A decision must be made before a final commitment. There is also the possibility that you might lack the ability to commit to anything.

Advice:

Love can free you! You can start a new romance, unrestricted by material pursuits/ wants. The Lovers card in this position can even mean a marriage proposal coming your way or a heart to heart discussion about an important relationship. You can combine your resources with a partner for a beneficial outcome. Use diplomacy to advance your ideas and get what you want and you can successfully pursue more than one project at a time.

In the image above from left to right we have the lovers card in the following decks in the order I prefer them: #1 the Tarot of Jane Austen,  #2 the Tarot of the Celtic Faeries,  #3 Nicoletta Ceccoli Tarot, #4 the Dark Grimoire Tarot.


The first tarot card shows three Pride and Prejudice characters: Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennett and Caroline Bingley. Diane Wilkes encourages you to role play when you receive this card in a reading; meaning you can be in any of the 3 characters' situations. You can be in Mr Darcy's situation where we have to choose between a match in social status (Caroline Bingley), or a match in our affection (Elizabeth Bennett). If you are in Caroline Bingley's situation you may be "worshiping" someone for the wrong reasons, such as status and money. Or you could find yourself in Lizzy's situation where you are so sure of your "discernment" that you decide "to despise" an actually good man/ and turn away a good match.
In short, with lovers card we have an emotional, important relationship decision to make. Please examine the situation from all angles, using evidence from both past and present before rushing to any conclusion.

In the Tarot of the Celtic Faeries the lovers card shows Leannan- Sidhe, a very desirable woman is accompanied by Gan Cenach ("Love Speaker"), who encourages young men to spend all their hard worked money on "unworthy" women. Gan Cenach is handsome. He is the gigolo/ or the pimp of the fairies who acts as a "trusted" friend but he is in for the money. At a deeper level, he represents the wrong decisions we take, even though we know we should not take them.
Mark McElroy advises us with this card to keep our passions/ high emotions in check/ at bay and try to look at our situation with a clear mind.
Leannan- Sidhe and Gan Cenach use attraction to seduce those easily manipulated by physical appearance.

In Nicoletta Ceccoli deck the lovers interpretation we find in the LWB is: a choice that can change everything. The image I see I think it relates to Adam and Eve's story from the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament.
The lovers card here shows Eva's choice to eat from the apple tree after she was tempted by the snake. In the picture Eva looks like in a trance, allured by the snake, who most likely encouraged her to make a bad choice.  It seems that Nicoletta Ceccoli addresses the same issues associated with this card: seduction and temptation.

In the last deck we see two lovers presented with a choice; to choose to say good bye and go to explore the "unknown" or to remain together "between the Mountains of Madness".

I personally wished the lovers card to be something more positive like simply two lovers, two people in love. However if you are looking for pure love you need to find that in other cards like Ace of Cups or 2 of Cups and not in the lovers cards!