VI. The Lovers

 

The World of Labor and Trials

Inside the Belly of the Whale

 

Now the Fool enters adolescence, and as the hormones begin to surge he becomes aware of the presence of the Lovers in his life.  He desires to experience the connection that the Greeks called eros, the love of the Other that reflects one’s own beauty.  He wishes to make connections and visit another’s reality.  Our Fool is attracted by image, apparency, and romance, as well as motivated by a fear of being alone with himself.  The Lovers offers lessons about the consequences of valuing perception over substance, for what the Fool really seeks in the Other is the missing (or unconscious) part of himself.  Now he feels guilt when he cannot measure up to his own or another’s desires, based upon the accepted roles of his peers rather than the reality.  The Fool must overcome these restrictions as he confronts, in physical form, the oppositions of duality as well as the chimera of appearances.

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