The Lovers
Major Arcana · number 6 · Gli Amanti
Upright
The Lovers are attraction, love, beauty, and the feeling of having come through a trial together. If you are living a feeling, this card proves it right; if you are alone, it tells you something beautiful is approaching, often from where you were not looking. But the card also speaks of a choice: two roads, and the need to pick one with your heart and your eyes open. The practical advice: do not let chance decide for you. Tell that person what you feel, or choose between the two job offers, but let the choice be yours.
Source: Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910) · read the original passage
Reversed
Reversed, the Lovers warn of a possible failure and of ill-conceived plans. Perhaps you have built a castle on a person who never said yes, or on a deal that looks perfect on paper but has a hole you pretend not to see. If these days everything seems to go wrong in love, with contrarieties of every kind, it is no accident: something was decided in haste. It is not a sentence. The practical advice: postpone the commitment, the move-in or the signature, and go over the plan with someone who has nothing to gain from it.