Tarot year card · 6

The Lovers Tarot Year Card

A year of choosing: who and what you align with, and what that choice says about you.

The Lovers tarot year card, card 6
The Lovers6 · Tarot year card

A year of The Lovers

The Lovers holds a year of choice. It is often read as a relationship year, and close bonds do tend to take centre stage, but the card is as much about choosing between paths and finding out what you value. A decision this year often defines what follows.

What the year asks

It asks you to choose from your values rather than from fear or habit, and to let a choice cost you something. The shadow is indecision dressed up as openness: keeping every door ajar so nothing is risked.

Sitting with it

Write down the decision this year keeps returning to. Next to it, write what you value most. See whether they point the same way.

Questions for the year

  • What choice am I avoiding by keeping options open?
  • Which relationship asks for a clearer yes or no?
  • What do my choices this year say I value?

Who has The Lovers as a year card

Under Greer's method, in 2026 The Lovers is the year card for 16 of the 366 birthdays (4%): January 4 and 13; February 3 and 12; March 2 and 11; April 1 and 10; May 9; June 8; July 7; August 6; September 5; October 4; November 3; December 2.

Under Greer's method, in 2027 The Lovers is the year card for 15 of the 366 birthdays (4%): January 3 and 12; February 2 and 11; March 1 and 10; April 9; May 8; June 7; July 6; August 5; September 4; October 3; November 2; December 1.

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The Lovers: full tarot card meaning

A choice that tells you who you are.

If it is also your birth card

The Lovers is also a birth card for some people. In the year it comes round as your year card, the theme you were born with is the one the year brings up.

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