L'amoureux Tarot

The earliest known tarot card decks date to the early 1400s, and for several centuries they were used simply as game cards, becoming associated with divination only after the 1780s. While the first tarot cards were hand-painted, for most of their existence they were printed from woodcuts using the same techniques that I use today.

L’Amoureux or The Lovers card deals with choices in relationships and the alignment of one’s values and love life in achieving inner harmony. My interpretaton shows three Newfoundland fairies at play, creatures that occupy an ambiguous liminal space in folktales, an inbetwenness that is associated with the unknown and often with transformation. Fairies are known to cause people to become disoriented and lost in the woods, to lose all sense of time, or even their sanity. They are also known to steal children and replace them with changelings. These fairies are enjoying their inbetwenness to its fullest.