READER REQUEST: RIDER-WAITE LOVERS and JUDGEMENT

 

The Lovers and Judgement

Rider-Waite Tarot

art by Pamela Colman Smith

 

Big thanks to hummingwitch reader Gloria Carol who sent a request for treatment of two Rider-Waite (Pamela Colman Smith) images--The Lovers and Judgement.

I don't know if Gloria deliberately chose this pair for their visual similarity, but you'll notice that an imposing angel presides over each scene. Both angels have scarlet wings so thick and lush, you know their arrival stirred up the whole of the environment. They signify an urgent intervention. They have broken through the sky with exhortations to humans below to unite (The Lovers) and rise back to life (Judgement).

Also, I absolutely covet the royal purple shawl The Lovers' angel is wearing...but I digress.

With its Adam-and-Eve imagery, The Lovers, in the context of this Major Arcana pairing, can indicate a beginning while Judgement brings us closer to the end--or perhaps the revival or high-level advancement--of a significant process.

One message coming through is: Remember your origins--remember the design, purity, connectedness, and hope--and now answer the call for transformation. 

The angels command us to raise the "dead" within ourselves and the "dead" out in our communities, societies, and world before it is too late.

What have you allowed to wither or die, to go without sun or nourishment? What have you denied because your environment, your society, denied it?

This is heavy recovery work, requiring determination, focus, courage, and stamina. Not every individual or collective of people will be up to the task. But, clearly, the time is now.

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