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.

When we choose Love, we experience a transformation, a form of Death, card 13. We find we have chosen Life

We have judged ourselves, and are called to a new world. Judgment, card 20, exercised kindly, with compassion, by us on ourselves and others, has led us into another dimension, into Eternity.

The Chariot represents the individual having reached maturity. As we look back over our life, we can see the many battles we fought over our lesser Self. We see the many temptations we have faced, the skirmishes and battles lost and won. So much agony, pain and suffering! So much joy, delight and happiness!

We exercise Temperance, card 14

We encompass The World, card 21.

The Fool is now the final card of the Greater Arcana of the Tarot, and is representative of the transformed New Creature; this is the mature human being.

The Butterfly People has been my personal interpretation of the meaning of the Tarot cards. The Rider-Waite Tarot has been the version I have used, and they can be used to accompany the reading of The Butterfly People.