The Lovers

Attraction, love and beauty lead here, and Waite adds trials overcome. Two figures stand beneath an angel, with a tree behind each, and older versions of this card showed a choice between paths. So the card concerns a bond and what it asks of you.

In a relationship, ask whether your values match as well as your feelings do. At a crossroads of any kind, pick the option you could defend to yourself a year from now. Attraction opens the question, and honest talk helps answer it.

Failure and foolish designs appear in the old notes, and another account speaks of frustrated marriage. Read that as a warning about mismatch, with no verdict on any couple.

Something may be out of line: what you say you want and what you keep doing, or what each of you expects. Compare notes plainly before you commit more time or money. A plan that rests on the other person changing needs a rethink.