THE PEOPLE'S TAROT · MAJOR ARCANA
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The Lovers
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The Solidarity Pact
IMAGERY
Two workers shake hands beneath a banner that reads 'WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE.' Above them, a winged figure drops not an arrow but a pamphlet. Behind one worker, a factory; behind the other, a farm. The handshake bridges the urban-rural divide.
READING
Choice, partnership, and the unity of opposites. The Solidarity Pact is not romance — it is the deeper love of shared struggle. A decision must be made, and it must be made together. Individual desire yields to collective need, but the yielding is voluntary, which is what makes it love.
SELF-CRITICISM
In the original, an angel oversees the union. Here it is a shop steward. Less celestial, more practical, equally binding.