The Lovers card is a card of two things that are incompatible. In this case the two things are the ebb and flow of how you gravitate to the tarot as you mentioned.

The 7 of Pentacles is the card of bounty and fertility. Future bounty is expected because of the success that has come in the past.

Notice how the 7 of Pentacles is turned away from the Lovers card. This shows that you are heading away from the incompatible phase and moving more deeply into the success and bounty phase. This means you are working towards solving the issue.

The final card is the 4 of pentacles. To me this is the card of balance and reflection as well. The card is looking up at you and not turned in any direction which means the fate of the matter lies with you. It will be your own reflections and thoughts that will decide what happens with this issue.

All in all this reading means you are spiraling towards being more spiritually grounded in the art of the Tarot.

My readings tend to deal with the more spiritual aspects of the cards and NOT the mundane ones.

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Thanks so much for the thoughtful reply!! My Morgan-Greer is my go-to deck for so many reasons — it was a previously loved gift and I like the feel of the cards in my hand.

I can definitely see what you mean about the 4 of pents and the “comfort zone issues”. I have so many great ideas to add to my tarot practice and often get bad cases of fear-of-failure when I try to practically implement them.

You wrote, “However, with Lovers as your ‘weakness’ indicates that despite your efforts in delving deep into the tarot, there are many a things that you’ve perhaps skimmed over lightly, some of which you didn’t really understand or ‘get’ and thus decided they weren’t worth pursuing.” — I can see why you would say this and I totally agree. When we fall in love, we all pick and choose (not necessarily *who* we fall in love with but) the aspects of the people we chose to love or what we love about them.

I’m probably the least metaphysical tarot reader I know, actually! LOL! I can’t even pronounce Qabalah, let alone put together a coherent sentence that would describe it in any way! I do wonder if that hurts my practice — but I just can’t seem to get into a lot of the mysticism. Tarot, for me, is a normal, everyday thing — that I treat with the same reverence as all the other magic I create (cooking, gardening, raising children…).

Thanks so much for the extra insights! – Melissa

First off, this is a really interesting spread – short, sweet, yet incredibly deep. And I absolutely love the Morgan Greer deck. Many consider it to be just another RWS clone, but there’s a whole lot more to it than meets the eye.

Secondly, I would love to add my 2 cents to your reading, if I may…

With 7 of Pentacles as your strengths as a reader -Yes, you have put in a lot of effort into learning the Tarot, and all things related, and you have gone in very deep into the subject. However, with Lovers as your ‘weakness’ indicates that despite your efforts in delving deep into the tarot, there are many a things that you’ve perhaps skimmed over lightly, some of which you didn’t really understand or ‘get’ and thus decided they weren’t worth pursuing. Plus, the 4 of Pentacles could indicate that maybe you’re unable to move out of your ‘comfort zone’ with the Tarot, and thus are unable to take your Tarot Abilities to a ‘higher level’.

However, the Quintessence card here is The Star, which to me says that even despite the ‘weaknesses’ listed above (by both you and I), you are a ‘natural’ with the Tarot, and thus don’t really need most of the arcane theoretical aspects of it – (Lovers = Hermeticism, Astrology, Qabalah, Ceremonial Magick, etc) to be able to read the cards flawlessly. The Star also indicates that Tarot is merely a ‘spring board’ for your divination skills, and those are so strong, that you can not only read other cartomantic tools (playing cards, oracle cards, lenomand cards etc), but even be able to read natural signs, coffee beans, scry water or mirrors, etc etc.

The key here is to break out of your comfort zone and keep pushing yourself further and further, stretching your limits, allowing yourself to master your inner abilities so that whatever you choose to read with at that time, you can do it flawlessly.

Hope this was helpful
Love and Blessings
Zorian