The Lovers

The Lovers represent our relationships with other people, and the world. As the name says, these relationships ought to be based on unconditional love. As a person striving to become mature, we understand that achieving the perfection of maturity, as the Divine is perfect, is a difficult enterprise. Knowing our own struggles over the baser side of our nature, we have empathy for others who are caught in the same struggle against feelings of envy, inferiority, hatred, and murderous anger.

The world can look dreadful and harsh if viewed through a dark prism of depression. Viewed through a spiritual prism, it seems full of the Ultimate. The sun rises every day, bringing with it the warmth of positive energy to fill us with joy, and remind us of the Love that pervades the universe. Unconditional Love, that treats everything and everyone equally. Love that calls us to follow our higher self, and reflect that love outwards onto everything that surrounds us in equal measure. As we have freedom to choose how we react to events, and take control of our own lives, so we grant this freedom to others. This is true Love.

VI

My Beloved

The Butterfly People rejoice

Exultant, full of joy

They sing a new song of Love

Triumphant, jubilant

They dance a new dance into the light

Arms outstretched

Welcoming, they gather around you

The Lovers

When you choose Love

Now, as one of the Butterfly People

You hold a new vision

Of the world full of sunshine

Divine, life-giving energy, flooding everywhere

As the sages of old spoke of hidden mysteries

So that small, inner voice speaks to you

Clothed in the purple of Wisdom

Love hangs over you, blessing you

On either side stand the trees of transformation

Now, in your hand, you have the knowledge of good and evil

Of Matter containing never-dying Spirit

And wrapped around you, the Snake of Rebirth

The Ouroborus, Life continually renewing into Eternity

Before you stands the Mountain at the centre of the world

The cosmic axis between Heaven and Earth

And you have the strength to climb it

The male side of your being brings self-discipline

Knowledge and enlightenment born of experience

Your female side brings unconditional love

You have conquered Yourself

The green meadows are spread before you

Pastures that encourage rest for your Spirit, recuperation

A time to reflect, to revive, to heal

The journey had been long and difficult

Gratitude fills you as you look back

Each battle over your Lesser Self has brought Strength

With it has come a greater understanding of Life

You find yourself above and apart from the World

What seemed so important in the past

Falls into a different perspective

Now you see everything from the viewpoint of the Infinite

You recognize yourself as a Child of the Universe

You will climb that Mountain between Earth and Heaven

As you move into the Future, and Eternity awaits

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