Meaning of the Crisis in Cupid’s Oracle of Love

Card no. 41

If love were simpler to live over the long run, the world would be all the better for it. Unfortunately, everything generally gets complicated fast in love. Thus, after the love at first sight and the first harmonious steps of a life for 2, we often witness the first quarrels and clashes within a couple. While these squabbles are quite natural when they are occasional, they can quickly become dangerous when they recur too often. Because once transformed into conflict between the 2 lovers, they then take precedence over tenderness and the couple then splits into 2 distinct parts that each entrench themselves on their own side, standing their ground.

This is the starting point of a crisis situation. There is then no dialogue possible any more between the 2 partners and anger gets the upper hand over reason. The crisis within a couple is therefore that difficult passage to manage where 2 beings who are supposed to still love each other can no longer stand each other. Fortunately for some, this crisis situation can have a positive outcome, which makes the 2 lovers patch things up after telling each other a few home truths without pulling any punches. But for others, the crisis is the start of an unmanageable situation, where love has turned into hatred, and whose end can only be final separation.

A sad and bitter acknowledgement of failure, then, and one which unfortunately happens far more often than we imagine. To depict this moment when everything tips over within a couple, the card sets us before a very dark drawing. Indeed, on it there is a person holding their head in their hands, a sign of deep distress, while around them rise a heart line in constant decline as well as thick clouds black as night. This hardly cheering card is linked to the number 41, which gives the figure 5 after reduction. A figure evoking every middle ground in numerology, and in this precise case, the fair share between good and evil.

Keywords: Conflict – Entrenchment – Confusion – Anger – Danger – Failure