The essential meanings of this Major Arcana card from the Rider-Waite-Smith deck.

Upright: The Lovers upright traditionally signifies love, union, and partnership, but it’s also about choices and aligning your values. It often appears when a heartfelt decision is needed or when you’re forming a meaningful relationship or collaboration. Upright, The Lovers card encourages harmony, trust, and finding balance in relationships, as well as staying true to your own moral compass when faced with choices.

Reversed: The Lovers reversed can indicate disharmony, imbalance, or a tough choice made for the wrong reasons. It may suggest a break in communication or trust between partners, or inner conflict about a decision. In reversed form, this card urges you to examine areas of misalignment – perhaps you’ve compromised too much of yourself, or you’re avoiding a choice. It’s a call to restore balance, whether within a relationship or within yourself, and to reconnect with what you truly value.

Three Possibilities

The secrets of this card for heart, mind and soul.

Love: The Lovers card paints a story of deep union and heartfelt choice. Two souls stand naked and true before each other, blessed by an angel above, symbolizing trust, open communication, and a bond guided by higher ideals. This card heralds a romantic partnership filled with harmony and passion, or a meaningful choice that tests your values in love, leading you toward what (and who) you truly adore.

Career: In your career, The Lovers represents alignment and pivotal choices. It can signal a powerful partnership or team united by trust and shared goals, working in beautiful tandem like two halves of one creative soul. Alternatively, it may present a crossroads where you must choose the path that resonates with your core values, committing to the vocation you truly love.

Spirituality: On the spiritual plane, The Lovers speaks of unity and aligning with what your heart truly values. It’s about harmonizing dualities within yourself—the conscious and subconscious, the earthly and the divine—much like lovers merging into oneness. This card can also indicate a spiritual crossroads, urging you to follow the path that makes your soul sing.