6 - VI The Lovers

The Principle of Art and Craft of Relationship
The Journey of the Twins

The Lovers archetype represents the universal principle of the art and craft of relationship. Everything upon this symbol is paired. You are like the Lovers in your capacity to inspire and motivate people of all ages and all generations, pictured by the children, the couple, the older people, the younger people on the symbol. It also indicates that you have the ability to work well with persons on a one-to-one basis, as well to work with people in groups. This is the most peopled card in the entire deck, and teaches persons the art and craft of relating, either to ideas, creative projects or to human beings. You have the inherent gift of establishing relationship lines and perceiving what's working and what's not working in relationships. Your greatest abilities are people skills and in choice-making, especially weighing choices either between two situations, two issues, two people, or choices in how to bring two situations, two people or two issues together in order to create a greater whole. This symbol of the Lovers represents Buckminister Fuller's concept of the synergetic principle, which was that two or more parts that came together would create something greater than the two parts that initially came together. Basically, with the Lovers archetype as your spiritual life-time symbol, you have the inherent gift of synthesizing, integrating polarities, oppositions and paradoxes. You are gifted in putting together ideas, situations, issues or people that other people had not readily thought of as workable. You have the insight or perception to see what's workable and what's not workable as far as relationship lines are concerned on a one-to-one basis, or in group situations. Because of your sensitivity to people and to relationship lines, it is important at different times that you give yourself space, like the Hermit, to integrate your experience: also, at different periods in your life, you'll find yourself wanting to be alone, and not to be so people-oriented. This phase or cycle of your life will be much more targeted to the Hermit figure that is on this card, which is associated with contemplation, introspection and needs for emotional space and psychological space.