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Hanel and Gretel: The Lover's Card The Lovers Card: Hansel and Gretel In the Inner Child Cards, The Lovers, Trump #6, I associated the fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel as a means to explore the story of love. Let’s look at love from the vantage point of fairy tale mysticism and the lessons we can learn from the stories of past. The Lover’s Card is often depicted as a marriage, two people in union, and other symbolic imagery representing the hope for Love. Often times, symbols representing the shadow of love, discord, jealousy, fear, or attachment are symbolically represented as well. In essence, the wholeness of the Lover’s Card carries within its potential the truth about Love, our deep longing for it, and it’s destructive side that may manifest when an attached ego or projection of another takes over the purity of the heart. In fact, the appearance of the Lover’s Card may arise reflecting one’s own abandonment of the union of one’s inner male and female balance within. Those of us who have been in and out of relationships know that Love can be tricky business, especially when one is entangled with false desires, greed, or dependency on another.