A naked man and woman stand under an angel, unashamed: this is a Garden of Eden scene before the fall.The LoversHe hangs from a living T-cross by one ankle, the free leg crossed behind: the figure of a traitor's punishment, wearing an expression of complete calm.The Hanged Man

Card combination

The Lovers and The Hanged Man

A choice held in suspension. The tradition is unusually specific here: this is not indecision, it is a decision genuinely waiting on something that has not arrived. The pair reads the pause as legitimate and finite.

Together

A choice held in suspension. The tradition is unusually specific here: this is not indecision, it is a decision genuinely waiting on something that has not arrived. The pair reads the pause as legitimate and finite.

In love

Associated with a relationship in a holding pattern for reasons outside it, distance, timing or somebody else's circumstance.

In career

Read for a decision that cannot be made yet. The pair distinguishes that from one that is being avoided.

The advice

Name what you are waiting for. If you can name it the wait is real, and if you cannot it is avoidance wearing this card.

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