Eden

The Lovers signals that relationships with an other - as equal - are paramount.

Here we see that the other is an end in themselves, and by abandoning ‘use’ as the criteria for judging them, we discover a whole new trajectory of experience - an upwards spiral where vulnerability is power: the power to unfold.

This card differs in different decks, but here we see a portrayal of the edenic state -the mode of perception prior to the adoption of dualism.

By tracing the threads back towards the source, and becoming participant to the journey, we finally cross a threshold into the place where ‘opposites’ no longer exist.

This place is the open fountainhead of dynamic creation - a plenum utterly boundless and infinitely abundant.

There are paths back to this garden in the Words left to us by the ancient sages. Those with ears let them hear.

The garden is Love - naked, vulnerable, intimate and infinite: Love in the seed of reality itself.

Berashith. With beginningness, the lovers taste of the life tree. Let not your essence be clothed to the Open.

Eden is recovered in the intimate surrender of true, heartbreaking wonder.

Retrace your steps to the garden, be pared to your bareness by 777 - the light sword, spinning Zayin.

Fear it not - face its edge with naked heart, and Love:

Love with tears in your eyes and nectar in your laughter.

Oh you flowers - love the bees of eternity.

Listen to them dance - in the land of milk and honey - which we have never left.

Make the journey to recover Love.