Gli Amanti

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Il significato principale di Gli Amanti è Profonda unione emotiva. Al dritto, solitamente indica Amore, armonia, scelta di valori, unione. Simboleggia una profonda connessione u; rovesciata, potrebbe suggerire Disarmonia, separazione, scelte sbagliate, tentazione. Può indicare una relazion.

Immagini della carta

L'arcangelo Raffaele allarga le braccia tra le nuvole sopra le figure nude di Adamo ed Eva. Dietro Eva c'è l'Albero della Conoscenza intrecciato da un serpente; dietro Adamo, l'Albero della Vita in fiamme. Sullo sfondo si erge un'alta montagna.

Significato al dritto

Amore, armonia, scelta di valori, unione. Simboleggia una profonda connessione umana o l'affrontare un'importante decisione morale ed emotiva.

Significato invertito

Disarmonia, separazione, scelte sbagliate, tentazione. Può indicare una relazione interrotta o una decisione deplorevole presa sulla base di valori fuori luogo.

Amore, carriera, denaro e crescita

Amore

Innamorato, Gli Amanti indica Profonda unione emotiva. Rileggilo confrontandolo con il modo in cui si comporta effettivamente la relazione e con ciò che scegliete entrambi.

Carriera

In materia di carriera, Gli Amanti indica Profonda unione emotiva. Inizia individuando quali risorse controlli e quale sarà la tua prossima mossa.

Soldi

In materia di soldi, Gli Amanti indica Profonda unione emotiva. Non considerare una lettura simbolica come una conclusione di investimento: segui i fatti, il budget e la tua tolleranza al rischio.

Crescita personale

Per la crescita personale, Gli Amanti indica Profonda unione emotiva. Annota la domanda che solleva, quindi trasformala in un'azione che puoi effettivamente verificare.

Sì o no

Diritto

Sì

Rovesciata

No

Questa è la nostra lettura veloce, basata sulla direzione in cui tende il significato della carta. Le tradizioni non sono d'accordo sulle singole carte, e un "Forse" deve essere valutato rispetto alla posizione nello spread e alla situazione reale piuttosto che essere preso come una risposta di una sola parola.

Testo originale di Waite (1911)

Simbolismo interiore (originale)

The sun shines in the zenith, and beneath is a great winged figure with arms extended, pouring down influences. In the foreground are two human figures, male and female, unveiled before each other, as if Adam and Eve when they first occupied the paradise of the earthly body. Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it. The figures suggest youth, virginity, innocence and love before it is contaminated by gross material desire. This is in all simplicity the card of human love, here exhibited as part of the way, the truth and the life. It replaces, by recourse to first principles, the old card of marriage, which I have described previously, and the later follies which depicted man between vice and virtue. In a very high sense, the card is a mystery of the Covenant and Sabbath.

The suggestion in respect of the woman is that she signifies that attraction towards the sensitive life which carries within it the idea of the Fall of Man, but she is rather the working of a Secret Law of Providence than a willing and conscious temptress. It is through her imputed lapse that man shall arise ultimately, and only by her can he complete himself. The card is therefore in its way another intimation concerning the great mystery of womanhood. The old meanings fall to pieces of necessity with the old pictures, but even as interpretations of the latter, some of them were of the order of commonplace and others were false in symbolism.

Significato originale al dritto

Attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome.

Significato originale invertito

Failure, foolish designs. Another account speaks of marriage frustrated and contrarieties of all kinds.

Citato da A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), illustrato da Pamela Colman Smith. Il testo è di pubblico dominio.

Origini del mito e dei simboli

The old cards show a youth at a crossroads, which is a Greek fable. Eden is what Waite put in its place.

Documented imagery

Attested by surviving objects or texts

The card that got replaced: the choice at the crossroads

Early decks draw this card two ways: as a wedding, or as a young man standing between two women. The second continues "Heracles at the crossroads" — Prodicus' fable, recorded in Xenophon's Memorabilia: Virtue and Vice appear in human form and ask the youth to choose his road. Waite says in his own book that his card replaces "the old card of marriage, and the later follies which depicted man between vice and virtue." So the Greek fable really is in this card's ancestry — it was simply removed by the author himself.

Fonte Prodicus, "Heracles at the crossroads," in Xenophon's Memorabilia II.1; Waite 1911 describes the replacement himself

What went in its place is Eden

The Waite version draws Adam and Eve: behind the man is the Tree of Life bearing twelve fruits, behind the woman the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, with the serpent twining round it. All of this imagery comes from Genesis 2–3. The sense of the card therefore moves from "which road do I take" to "union, covenant, and the state before the fall." Those are not the same thing.

Fonte Genesis 2–3; Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911, The Lovers

Esoteric correspondence

A sourced traditional claim, but constructed inside an occult system

Gemini, and the archangel who is never named

The Golden Dawn assigns the Lovers to Gemini (Hebrew letter Zain). The winged figure above with its arms spread is commonly identified as the archangel Raphael — but Waite's text says only "a great winged figure with arms extended, pouring down influences," and names nobody. The name was supplied by later commentators; it is an identification made inside the system.

Fonte Golden Dawn Book T zodiacal attributions; Waite 1911 does not name the figure

Modern reading

Popular only since the twentieth century; unrelated to where the card came from

Twin flames is a contemporary product

Reading this card as twin flames, as the destined other half, is New Age language of the last two or three decades. Neither the choice at the crossroads nor the covenant in Eden is about fated pairing. You can of course use the card to talk about relationships in a reading. That is a different question from what the card was originally about.

Fonte Modern popular reading, no historical basis

Scritto da BESTAROT, non citato da fonti storiche. Ogni affermazione è contrassegnata da quanto bene è dimostrata; gli strati interpretativi moderni sono utili per la lettura, ma non costituiscono l’origine storica della carta.

Studia il tema: Mito e origini dei simboli (Accademia capitolo 6)