VI: The Lovers - It's Complicated

This card is so chock full of things to look at that it begins to become impossible to find your way through the symbolism.  There are Cain and Abel.  Then Eve and Lilith.  There is Black and White.  Male and Female.  Coercion and freedom.  And binding all these opposites, the never ending and eternal mobius strip.

From the "I don't know" of the Hierophant to the complication of The Lovers, what is a Fool to do??  At first, things seemed to be cut and dried, even The Priestess had her place.  But now things are starting to get complicated.  Just like real life.  Awareness starts out fairly simple, but as the sphere grows, as more influences are felt, the confusion sets in.  The Hierophant has been doing our thinking for us, but now we want to understand for ourselves.  This is something that you can't just be told about, you have to experience it to understand.

Personally, this card leaves me confused.  The Hierophant is hooded now - no longer is he telling me what to do.  He is not acting as my intermediary any longer.  It is time that I start standing on my own.  It is time that I start making sense of the Universe on my own.  Finding balance between things that seem so diametrically opposed.  Uniting the poles and finding the center point where balance is possible.  There is no right nor wrong, there are only differences.