Meaning of Fragility in Cupid’s Oracle of Love

Card no. 42

Like everything that starts out, a love relationship is somewhat fragile during its very first steps. That is why it demands a great deal of attention from the 2 lovers concerned, who must first of all learn to know each other better in order to know when and how to take the greatest care of the other. It is therefore a period made of numerous exchanges in which the 2 lovebirds test each other so as to grasp one another better and to pin down their respective personality more accurately. We all know how much the start of a love relationship is an endless joy, in which, between pleasures and discoveries, the 2 people swim together in sheer happiness.

But it remains all the same a delicate moment, because one is learning to live with the other, to understand what drives them and what holds them back, and to grasp all the nuances of their character. That is therefore where one truly realises whether one is really made for the other, or whether on the contrary one would do better to leave it there, saying goodbye and wishing each other good luck for the future. The birth of a love is thus something still rather precarious, even if there are indeed signs of stirring around the 2 lovers.

It is a still vulnerable situation that has barely been set in place, even if it seems beautiful and encouraging for the future. It is a fragile period which certainly asks to be lived fully, but while taking all the necessary precautions. To depict this fact, the card sets us before the drawing of a little chick which, shortly after its birth, nestles in the hollow of the hands of a person trying to take care of it with as much tact as possible. The background of the card is green in colour, symbol of life force and high energy, and the number it is associated with is the number 42, which after reduction gives us the figure 6, which embodies security in numerology.

Keywords: Precaution – Vulnerability – Precariousness – Attention – Delicacy – Security