Esoteric Tarot Course
Lesson 7
- 78 Card Deck of your choice (required)
- Your Tarot Journal (required)
- “The Tarot Trumps and the Holy Grail,” by Margaret Starbird (buy if you can afford it)
- “Tarot Journeys,” by Yasmine Galenorn (buy if you can afford it)
- “Tarot in Ten Minutes” by RT Kaser (buy if you can afford it)
6-The Lovers
The next stop on our journey will be the Lovers. First let’s look at what Margaret Starbird writes in “The Tarot Trumps and the Holy Grail”. Read the section titled “The Lovers” starting on page 29.
Journal Writing
Go to your journal and start a new page with the word “The Lovers” and the number 6 at the top. Now take the Lovers card out of your deck and look at it. Again you may want to step into this card and see if the Lovers have any messages for you. Be sure to write everything down in your journal. What do you feel, hear, or things that just pop into your head. Again we are exercising our intuition. What do you see on this card? See if any of the following are on the card: color, figures (both human and animal), shapes, landscape, vegetation, heavenly bodies and symbols.
Now in your journal write down what this card is showing you. Write down any key words that come to mind while looking at this card. This is very important since these are words you are being shown. Be sure to do this before continuing with the lesson.
WHAT DO THESE SYMBOLS MEAN??
D E S C R I P T I O N
On this card we see a blazing sun dominates the top portion of this card, with the figure of an angel with outstretched arms protectively watching over a young man and woman who are naked. Some have called them Adam and Eve. Behind the man is the Tree of Life bearing twelve fruits. Behind the woman is the Tree of Good and Evil with a snake coiled around it. The man is looking towards the woman and represents the conscious mind and reason. The woman represents subconscious and emotion. It is she who looks up to the angel Raphael.
T H E S Y M B O L S
First, this card has the number 6 on it. Six symbolizes harmony within flux. Justice. Equilibrium. Fairness. Balance restored. Peace. Appreciation. Reward. Values. Benefits from past behavior.
Some Lovers cards show a man standing in front of two women. This shows there is a choice to be made. Remember each one of us are made up of both masculine (conscious) and feminine (subconscious) qualities. The Lovers card can teach us how to bring about a compatible union of these two.
MEANINGS:
Infatuation
Deep emotion
Physical attraction
Emotional involvement
Union
Compatibility
A choice between wisdom and passion
Examining
Yearning
Tempting
Equality between male and female
A choice to be made
REVERSED MEANINGS:
Disloyalty
A possible parting
Divorce
Discord
End of a love affair
An unsatisfactory relationship
Emotional distress
Incompatibility
Sexual frustration
Torn apart by outside influences
Indecision
GUIDED MEDITATION: : If you have the book, “Tarot Journeys” by Yasmine Galenorn read the Meditation for The Lovers starting on page 85. This is an excellent book and brimming over with insights. Notice that this meditation is appropriate as part of the Beltane ritual, or whenever you feel a need to explore your interest in love relationships, friendship, or the integration of opposing facets of ourselves. Be sure to choose one of the exercises to do.
Let’s Play a Game
This time I want you to take out The Fool, The Magician, The High Priestess, The Empress, The Emperor, The Hierophant and The Lovers. Shuffle these cards. Lay out a three-card spread, Past, Present and Future.
Tarot In Ten Minutes
Now it’s time to get out your “Tarot in Ten Minutes”.
“Swords Are About Conflicts, Power & Success Strategies”
Complete each of these readings.
Reading #17, How Successful Will I Be?”
Pages 148 to 153
Do Extra Credit
Reading #18, How’s My Money Doing?”
Pages 154 to 161
Do Extra Credit
Reading #19, What’s My Winning Strategy?”
Pages 162 to 173
Do Extra Credit
Questions:
1. After reading the section “The Lovers” in “The Tarot Trumps and The Holy Grail” I would like for you to write a paragraph giving me your take on this. Write any questions you might come up with.
2. What were your key words? What do you feel this card represents? Who is someone you know or know of this card could represent?
3. If you have the book “Tarot Journeys” do the meditation write me a note letting me know what you thought of it. Why would meditation of The Lovers card be appropriate during the Beltane ritual?
4.In the section “Let’s Play a Game” tell me what position each card was in, then write at least a paragraph telling what the cards are saying.
5. In the section “Tarot in Ten Minutes” send in each reading and the extra credit.
Email your answers to: EMysterySchool@northernway.org with Tarot 7 Answers in the subject line.
Here is a spread for you to try!
The Lovers Spread
This spread is for love, in all its forms.
Shuffle the deck and lay out the cards per the diagram above.
Card 1: This card represents your love of yourself, self-love and self-image, representing strengths and weaknesses, or issues to get through.
Card 2: This card represents your love for others, your family, friends, lovers. Can represent a specific person and how you react to him or her, or how you see others, or a relationship.
Card 3: This card represents another factor or person, something not accounted for, because these situations are never simple! Can be a love triangle, or a difficult choice.
Card 4: This card represents strange Fate, or larger currents and directions, situations out of your control. Also represents the love the Universe holds for you, and your trust (or lack of faith) in that.
Cards 1, 2 and 4 are forms of love you will always have and that are not dependent on others: your love for yourself, your love for others, and the love the Universe has for you.
