06-The Lovers – Reversed Rider Waite Deck

Your Chosen Card – The Lovers Reversed Rider Waite Deck

When reversed, the Lovers card suggests that you may be rushing into a decision without careful consideration. Perhaps you have been swept off your feet by a new relationship and cannot think clearly. Love is blind, and Cupid’s arrows may tempt you to sow wild oats without considering the consequences. Are you behaving like a farmer who has not properly plowed his fields or adequately cultivated his crops? Without careful preparation, there cannot be a good harvest. With due deliberation, you can avoid hard times.

Keywords Reversed: Indecision, bad choices, doubt, temptation, lack of commitment, seduction, infidelity, betrayal, disappointments in love, injudicious use of one’s plow, failure to cultivate one’s fields properly, eating the forbidden fruit, being hoist with one’s own petard; ‘idle hands are the devil’s workshop.’

Key VI: The Lovers
Myths/Archetypes: Adam and Eve. Eros and Psyche. Cupid’s arrow. Abelard and Heloise. Romeo and Juliet. Dante and Beatrice. The Lover. Don Juan. Casanova.
Dates of Gemini: 22 May–21 June (tropical); 15 June–15 July (sidereal)
Astrology: Gemini, the Twins (an Air sign ruled by Mercury)
Numerology: 6 (Lovers) = 1 + 5 (Devil)

6. The Lovers: Choosing How To Plow Your Fields

When The Lovers is reversed you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If The Lovers is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is The Lovers is trying to tell you.  If you had a particular issue in  mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.

This chosen card is part of your reversed card reading for The Lovers using cards from the Rider Waite Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.


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Complete Book of Tarot
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Complete Book of Tarot: Fact 1: The tarot was invented as a card game during the Renaissance by Italian artists who incorporated images and ideas from ancient Greek and Roman mythology, which probably included themes derived from the cult of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus. The gypsies, who originated in India, were not ancient Egyptian priests and did not arrive in Europe until well after the Italians produced the first tarot decks.

Tarot Books

Elements of the Psychic World: Raised by a Voodoo nanny, Annie was in her late teens when she came to Rose Hall. Schooled in black magic and voodoo curses, Annie would often ride her white horse throughout the plantation, terrorizing her 2,000 slaves. While she lived there it is said that she murdered three husbands and was eventually murdered herself in 1831 at the age of 29 by one of her slave lovers.

Angel Encyclopedia: One of the FALLEN ANGELS and 72 spirits of SOLOMON. Zepar is a duke who appears wearing red clothing and armed like a soldier. He makes women love men and can transform them into other shapes until they have been enjoyed by their lovers. Alternately, he makes women barren.

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Angel Encyclopedia: One of the FALLEN ANGELS and 72 spirits of SOLOMON. Zepar is a duke who appears wearing red clothing and armed like a soldier. He makes women love men and can transform them into other shapes until they have been enjoyed by their lovers. Alternately, he makes women barren.