The Lovers and The Hermit

Union drawn with deliberate solitude, one of the plainest oppositions in the trumps. The tradition does not rank them and is careful about the reason: The Hermit chose the lamp and the mountain, and a solitude that was chosen reads very differently from one that was not.

Associated with somebody who needs more distance than the relationship currently allows, and with that being a requirement rather than a rejection.

Read for collaborative work against work that needs one person alone. The pair notes that forcing the wrong one produces bad results twice.

Find out whether the solitude was chosen. That single fact changes the reading completely and it is usually answerable.