This is a lovely card, isn’t it? But it is more than romantic love being demonstrated here, so do keep the Reading Points below in mind.
READING POINTS: On a personal level, love is a universal gift to the generous heart, and the seeker will find balance through inner harmony and healing. Polarity is the key element in the natural ebb and flow of emotional commitment. The Forest Lovers represent a positive spiritual force of creative emotional energy and a universal desire for harmony. The inhabitants of the Greenwood revere and respect the rites of love as the force that ensures the unfolding cycle of creation and emotional stability. Always bring the light of love with you; allow it to illuminate the darkest corners of your world and support you through whatever you set out to do.
DESCRIPTION: A man and a woman stand side by side, clothed in the green and brown of the Wildwood. They are Robin and Marian, the Forest Lovers, reborn time and again in the heart of the woods, sometimes known as Robin Hood and Maid Marian, at other times by different names.
Between them stands a maypole, generated by their exchange of energy and symbolized here by a living birch tre. Spiraling around this are green garlands, reaching up toward the sky and representing the ascending Earth energies which meet the descending energies of the sky. the Forest Lovers create a spark of life that generates a third force or energy. Arum lilies, or “lords and ladies” as they are also known, are in flower in that period of Beltaine.
They symbolize the male and female union at this time of year and the generative energies that bring fruitfulness and harmony within the cycle of the year.
The Wildwood Tarot by authors Mark Ryan and John Matthews and artist Will Worthington
Parting the Mists 
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