I have this app on my phone that picks a Tarot card each day. Personally, I think it’s great! My biggest issue when drawing a card each day is shuffling and then, after drawing the card, putting them all back in order. I’m the furthest thing from a neat person, but I like my Tarot cards in order. This app is perfect for me because I don’t have to worry about either shuffling or reordering the cards!
Today’s card is VI “The Lovers”, Upright
I used to like this card a lot because I’m a romantic. I want characters in books to end up together, I want marriages to last, and I believe in true love. I have learned through researching the cards that this card is not all the good tidings for love it appears—in older decks, there are two women and one man. I’m not opposed to polygamy, but I am a one-man woman and I want a one-woman man. I also think that if someone feels they have a difficult decision to make between me and someone else, the person with the choice should just choose the other person. If you say you’re in love with me be in love with me, and only me. You have to remember this card’s astrological affiliation with Gemini, the sign of duality.
Because it is affiliated with Gemini, its element is Air. Air is not an element of emotions, and love is an emotion. I know this card is supposed to herald new relationships, it just strikes me that if it were really a card of love or passion (or even emotion) its element would be Fire or Water. The romantic in me wants this to be a love card, but I can’t help wondering how it feels to be the woman not chosen.
I also think about woman chosen. She’s chosen for her virtue (I know virtue trumps vice), but who’s perfect? She’ll be held to a standard, put on a pedestal if you will, that she can’t possibly live up to, and then what will the person who chose her do? He’ll wonder for the rest of their lives if he picked the right one. Don’t even get me started on being the one who chooses.
Now, I used male and female pronouns, but I don’t want to exclude others on the gender spectrum. I only used them because that’s what’s on the card. I don’t even think it’s solely a choice between people. It can be a choice between one option and any other option. Make wise choices, but know it’s a mental process (Air) rather than emotional.
Peace and balance,
Erin
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