Tarot Cards in Love: Unveiling Your Emotional Attitudes

There are days when tarologists feel like Cupid, addressing love-related issues finding meaning in the Tarot cards for love life, however these issues are not always solved overnight. 

Tarot cards follow a symbolic tradition and a meaning pattern to each area of life. Identifying them is the first step to become aware of your attitudes and improve them in respect to your loved one and yourself.

Next, we will see the meanings of Tarot cards in love based on the interpretation of how the first seven Major Arcana behave in the matters of heart. The second step is to recognize what is most similar to your emotional attitudes and honestly answer to the questions.

Meanings of Tarot cards in love 

The Tarot journey is a transformational adventure in human relationships. Try to make questions about your love life reality now. Work on your inner strengths to break negative patterns.

Think of Tarot cards as an exercise in consciousness and evolution towards a relationship well-being. Every day, respect the person next to you and trust your desires. 

After all, a good relationship is not built on emotional uncertainties and insecurities but on true dedication and recognition of your own exaggerations. 

Trust in love. But be true to it; otherwise, how can it be true to you?

The Magician

The person always seeks the best, this explains why they are always investing in magical seduction formulas considered infallible for a relationship to succeed. 

Even though they try to feel victorious, coming up with plans and even lying to get what they want, their creativity contributes to the moments of joy and pleasure for two. 

However, they tend to lose faith in love when their expectations are not fully met. When they get what they want, they move on. 

• What is the ideal relationship for me? 
• What do I expect from the other person?

The High Priestess 

Of a silent and reserved nature, this card symbolizes a person who hides their feelings and indicates sentimental passivity. 

Due to a lack of stimulation and self-esteem to live love, they prefer to remain closed and not fully trust others so as not to suffer later. 

The kind of person who only surrenders if they feel completely safe to do so. 

• How can I overcome shyness and build a healthy relationship?

The Empress

Symbolizes full mastery and awareness of her emotions. The Empress is the one who does not see dead-locks as obstacles, but as opportunities for growth with their partner. 

She provides emotional security to her loved one, who generally reciprocates with honesty and declared passion. She never puts desire aside and speaks her mind: she will prevail. 

• What are my main love qualities? 
• How can I make them clearer to others?

The Emperor

When a person places themselves above their feelings and their role in the romantic relationship, their attitudes can be interpreted as too altruistic, harsh, and egocentric. 

This is what happens with this arcana: practical, responsible, and objective, but also controlling and even insensitive. 

Indicates lasting unions loaded with vanity, status, and rationalization of the relationship, often relegated to the background in a “perfect” marriage. 

• What should I learn from the person I love? 
• What should I improve in my relationship?

The Pope 

Symbolizes tradition, morals, and family as important elements of love. There is respect, dialogue, friendship, and honor with the partner. A fundamental characteristic of this pattern is fidelity, as love is for life. 

In social settings, it portrays an image of complicity with the loved one, even if the person knows how to maintain their own individuality intact and always strong. It is the pattern of behavior for those who truly dedicate themselves to someone. 

• What can I learn from the person I love?

The Lovers 

Traditionally related to romance, to the fairy tale idealized love and ancient myths, this card symbolizes the choices that must be made in the face of doubts and desires. 

It signifies indecision, fears about the loved one, hesitation in becoming attached to the other; but it also indicates the desire to relate in a sincere way and without questioning what is right and when it is right. 

The prospects are good – although focus is necessary when choosing love. 

• What are my options for love? 
• What should I consider before making my decisions in love?

The Chariot 

All the enthusiasm, expectation, and desire for the loved one are this card’s attributes of an early nature: it is so fast moving towards the purpose that it usually confuses physical attraction with true love. 

However, all this anxiety to reach a place of your own, when transformed into determination, can create real affection in a relationship that is honest, sincere, and satisfying on all levels. As long as it lasts, of course. 

• What is the importance of the person I love in my life? 
• What should I do to make relationship last for a long time?

Justice 

It indicates emotional distance and a relationship based on excessive formality and seriousness. Everything that happens between the couple is due to logic, within the confines established by the couple – there is no giving of body and soul. 

It symbolizes mutual respect and mature behavior to society, but affection and tenderness are scarce. 

• What should I do to balance my emotional relationship?
•  How can I break the ice in love?

The Hermit 

One of the love tarot cards, The Hermit means the inner peace that exists between two people who love each other – especially when the relationship has been going on for years, being an “old” and lasting love. 

There is a lot of affection, care, and dedication between the partners, even if these qualities, so rare in today’s relationships, transcend sexual desire. 

The tarot card reflects ancient values that do not follow trends. On the contrary, they make this relationship memorable. It is important to remember that honesty and loyalty prevail, regardless of how long the couple has been together. 

• What qualities should I improve in my romantic relationship? 
• What type of relationship am I building at this moment?

The Wheel of Fortune

The greatest symbol of life’s ups and downs in Tarot, this card shows the power of anxiety and instability for the relationship between two people. It is common to have an impulsive desire to achieve harmony and emotional balance. 

Thus, one does not realize that such an attitude brings obstacles such as estresse, unwillingness to keep a routine with the chosen person, and, on top of that, the unbearable mood swings that haunt the couple. 

If everything is going well and both are on a high, it won’t be long until they fall back to reasonable, until they hit rock bottom, when the union becomes unsustainable. 

• What should I do to keep my romantic relationship always harmonized and balanced? 
• What qualities of my relationship should I preserve?

Strength

Here, there is a belief that love, any love, must be real. Therefore, there is a power balance, security, and consolidation between the couple, who recognize their capabilities and work with dedication, respect and nurturing thier feelings over time. 

All the vitality, physical attraction, and maturity of both parties contribute to a union full of emotional prosperity, satisfaction, and magnetism. 

• What can I do to increase my love strength? 
• What should I do to dynamize my emotional relationship?

The Hanged Man

One of the love tarot cards, The Hanged Man symbolizes those who tie themselves up as a punishment for not getting what they want. This is the case of a person who is dissatisfied and hurt with their partner, waiting for them to change simply to please their own expectations. 

Both live in silent wars where bitterness and resentment prevail. But one of them loves the other so much that they suffer, keeping his/her affection to himself/herself – the only break is when they open up to point out their partner’s flaws. 

It indicates marriages bruised by time, couples resigned to boredom and the absence of improvements for love to be spontaneous and expressed freely. Due to the position of the figure – upside down, far from the ground -, often they do not see the harm they do to themselves and to their spouse. 

• What should I do to completely change my love relationship? 
• What are the main flaws in my way of loving?

The Death

Difficult situations and a certain selfishness are the main characteristics of this card\’s pattern. There is a common desire to improve the emotional life, even if the initial feeling is already, literally, dead. 

What was once healthy now became incompatible, difficult. There is anguish and a lack of affection due to the emotional distance. It indicates that the relationship needs to be reviewed, and the way each person interacts with the other needs to be recycled.

• What should I “eliminate” in my romantic relationship? 
• How can I transform this love into something that truly makes me happy?

The Temperance 

This is the arcana of alchemy. It shows how opposites attract and how they combine to create a harmonic relationship. Therefore, it indicates all the tranquility of a stable relationship that does not change. 

There is friendship, affection, dialogue, and attention. Love is deep, even if sometimes the routine is boring. The card advises the couple to always develop their relationship – since all the ingredients have resulted in a beautiful love recipe.

• How can I improve my relationship without losing the harmony that already exists? 
• What is necessary to do to get out of the routine and live new emotions with the one I love?

The Devil

One of the most famous love tarot cards, The Devil symbolizes passion, suspicion, and desire. It is with this mixture that the Devil spices up a love relationship.

There is a certain power struggle and values ​​between the couple, allied with pleasure and possessiveness, making a dangerous vanity fire which burns the good communication.

It illustrates useless fights and jealousy that, incredibly, provide reasons for total pleasurable intimacy. Love and hate are the gifts of this arcana.

• What can I do to have sincerity and happiness in this relationship? 
• What should I learn not to create more love problems?

The Tower

The love reflected in this Tarot card shows that the end must be accepted with all possible strengths. The relationship has more obstacles than ever due to immaturity and the negligence for not dedicating themselves faithfully to the union. 

Errors, excuses, and illusions end up shaking the relationship’s structures and explode in disgust and the need for renewal. For love to enter a heart in ruins, emotional awareness is required. If not, then it is no longer worth it.

• How can I allow love to enter and take over my life? 
• What should I improve in myself to be happy in this relationship?

The Star 

The couple who reaches The Star is at peace, with tranquility and hope that everything can always work out. The relationship is based on affection, love, and true respect for the loved one. 

This balance may often not be understood by those who live it, as everything seems perfect.

To ensure that this reciprocity endures, the advice is not to question it in love tarot cards but to experience it as much as possible, taking advantage of every minute of this starry afternoon.

• How can I preserve all this harmony in my romantic relationship?

The Moon

This is the one of the love tarot cards that symbolizes jealousy, fantasies, and the lack of dialogue to solve problems. One expects too much from the other, and both lovers end up getting frustrated and hating each other over time. 

The Tarot’s night brings the fear of what the loved one may do to harm the relationship and themselves, plunging into the darkness of sadness and loneliness. A lot of emotional confusion shows that two people can endure more pain than just one. 

Although it indicates material prosperity, it suggests a lack of courage and poverty of spirit to illuminate love.

• What are the main problems that interfere with my love relationship? 
• What should I recognize to improve communication with the person I love?

The Sun

It is with joy and great pleasure that the couple ruled by this card enjoys each day. This tarot arcane, therefore, suggests there is genuine respect for the relationship and for each one’s individuality.

In addition, The Sun points to a couple with common interests and with the ability to manage life in complete harmony.

Still, The Sun brings up questions for you to reflect on, such as:

• What should I do to keep my relationship completely bright and prosperous?

Judgement 

When a love story is a unique event in the lives of two people who like each other, this is the arcana responsible.

Therefore, Judgement usually shows a relationship freely adapted to the couple\’s lifestyle, which is always renewed and likes new things.

Take advantage of this card that came out for you and reflect on:

• How should I act so as not to be negatively surprised by this relationship? 
• What needs to be taken into account regarding love’s unforeseen events?

The World 

The tarot card The World shows the complete power balance and feelings in a love relationship. The world of the couple for which this card came out is sustained by the integration of differences and similarities and by mutual acceptance of all defects and qualities.

There is emotional security, pleasure, and responsibility for one\’s happiness. It is like in the fairy tales where love goes through several adventures, and in the end, everything fits and works out. To reflect, ask yourself:

• What needs to be started and finished in my love relationship? 
• How should I preserve the happiness that harmonizes my union?

The Fool

This is the arcana that can illustrate a union based on choice freedom and fun. Thus, there may be a lot of childishness in the relationship, making everything ephemeral, shallow, and not very important.

The relationship ruled by this arcane is usually naive to the point of being discarded at any troubled time. It indicates emotional unpreparedness. It is the typical case of a seemingly hopeless relationship, where pleasure is above all. Take advantage and reflect:

• How can I turn my affective relationship into a serious commitment? 
• What it needs to bring security and seriousness to this union?