The Lovers Tarot Card Meaning
Major Arcana card VI · Love, choices, and honest values
The Lovers: 6
Meaning
Close bonds and choices of the heart shape your life. This card is about love, but it is also about staying true to your values when you have to choose.
Guidance
Before a big choice, ask what you truly want, not what will please others. Have the honest talk that you have been putting off.
Shadow
Not being able to decide, or choosing only to keep everyone happy. Watch for any relationship where you lose your own voice.
In Love
This is the card of love and close bonds. It asks you to be honest about what you want and to choose a partner who shares your values.
In Work and Career
At work, you do best with people you trust and a job that fits your values. A big choice about a team or a path may need an honest talk first.
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About The Lovers
The Lovers is card VI of the 22 Major Arcana. Its main ideas are love, choices, and honest values. In tarot, the Major Arcana show the big themes of life, and The Lovers is one of them.
If this is your birth card, it is a symbol to think about, not a rule or a prediction. Read the meaning, the guidance and the shadow side, and see which parts feel true for you.
How To Get The Lovers As Your Birth Card
Your birth card comes from the digits of your birth date. Add every digit of the date (year, month and day). Here is how that leads to The Lovers, for birth dates from 1900 to 2099.
- Tarot Birth Card method: you get The Lovers when your digits add up to 6, 24, 33, 42. A total above 22 is reduced by adding its digits again.
- Digital Root method: you get The Lovers when your digits add up to 6, 15, 24, 33, 42.
- As a root card: The Lovers also shows up next to your main card when that card is The Devil (15).
Do not want to do the math? Our free Arcana Calculator does it in a second and shows every step.
Quick Facts
| Card | The Lovers |
| Number | VI (6) |
| Group | Major Arcana |
| Main ideas | Love, choices, and honest values |
| Element | Air |
| Planet | Mercury |
| Sign | Gemini |
These links follow the Rider-Waite-Smith order, where Strength is VIII and Justice is XI. The card picture is a scan of the original 1909 deck, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith.
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The Lovers FAQs
What does The Lovers mean as a birth card?
Close bonds and choices of the heart shape your life. This card is about love, but it is also about staying true to your values when you have to choose.
What number is The Lovers in the Major Arcana?
The Lovers is card VI (6) in the Rider-Waite-Smith order of the 22 Major Arcana cards.
Which element and planet go with The Lovers?
The Lovers goes with the element Air and the planet Mercury, and with the sign Gemini. These links come from the tarot and astrology tradition and are symbolic.
How do I find out if The Lovers is my birth card?
Use the free Arcana Calculator on our home page. Enter your birth date and it adds the digits for you, shows every step, and tells you which Major Arcana card is yours.