When The Lovers card shows up in a reading, it’s super exciting- we see a couple made of masculine and feminine energy, balance, acceptance, paradise, and souls made for each other. But all of this is just breadcrumbs leading down the false path of believing someone else could actually complete you. Or some thing... Or some where... Look closely, The Lovers is a mirror image of The Devil… if that mirror reflected back some sort of hell scape version of paradise. In this episode we'll look at both.
Sources cited:
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: 1892
The World We Make, N.K. Jemisin; 2022
Pamela Coleman Smith: The Untold Story, Stewart R. Kaplan; 2018
La Llorona: Ghost Stories of the Southwest, Christopher L. Rodarte; 2019
The Holy Bible