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VI. The Lovers

This path elucidates the previous paths.  According to Paul F. Case, the man and the woman in this card represent the high priestess & the magician, the empress and the emperor.  The duality alluded to in the Hierophant manifests as the Lovers.  This card is very formulaic of psychology.  The man and the woman represent the self-consciousness (Ego) and the subconsciousness (Id) of Man.  The Angelic figure in the clouds represents the Superconsciousness, the super-ego.  The sun above is the absolute.

This is also the balance and the harmony between the opposing forces within the psyche, and the love that is required for their balance.  The lovers are the self-consciousness and the sub-conscious aspects of the mind.  They are naked because they have nothing to hide from each other.  There is a deep understanding between them, and that's a requirement to attain the summit of the great work (the mountain in the background).  Is this mountain in the same range as the mountains in The Fool and the Emperor?

Joseph Lisiewki writes about the Lovers as representing the primal force behind all fabricating and forging forces within Nature, and symbolic of the depths of consciousness of Nature itself.

The letter Zayin associated with this path begins such words as Zman (time), Zikaron (remembrance), value 7 alludes to the 7 days of creation, 7 days of the week, daily and weekly rhythms and the need to be reminded of the purpose of one's life.

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