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VI - The Lovers...The TwinsDescription of the Illustration:In a scene reminiscent of Plato's Cave, a lighter boy and darker girl (who otherwise could be twins) watch a romantic movie in a theater. In the seats around them are couple involved in various stages of relationship - kissing, quarreling, silent separation, and adultery. But the boy and girl are oblivious as we see the image they are each envisioning of the other projected onto the screen - he is her Knight in Shining Armor and she is his Perfect Princess. On the screen they are twin souls, and the planet Mercury shines like a great cupid above them - holding the Bow of the Crescent Moon and the Arrow of Sagittarius - between the imaginary film lovers, winking conspiratorially. The upper left sphere is yellow (Tiphereth) while the lower right sphere is orange (Hod). Element: Air, Masculine, Transmissive, Mutable sign
The World of Labor and TrialsInside the Belly of the WhaleNow the Fool enters adolescence, and as the hormones begin to surge he becomes aware of the presence of the Lovers in his life. He desires to experience the connection that the Greeks called eros, the love of the Other that reflects one’s own beauty.He wishes to make connections and visit another’s reality. Our Fool is attracted by image, apparency, and romance, as well as motivated by a fear of being alone with himself. The Lovers offers lessons about the consequences of valuing perception over substance, for what the Fool really seeks in the Other is the missing (or unconscious) part of himself. Now he feels guilt when he cannot measure up to his own or another’s desires, based upon the accepted roles of his peers rather than the reality. The Fool must overcome these restrictions as he confronts, in physical form, the oppositions of duality as well as the chimera of appearances.
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