Waite–Smith, Trump 6
The Lovers
What you can see
Two unclothed figures stand beneath a winged figure and the sun. Behind them are two different trees; a serpent winds around the tree on the left.
What Waite says
Waite replaces a choice between vice and virtue with an Edenic account of human love. His explanation uses Adam, Eve, covenant and providence, preserving a specific theological story rather than a universal relationship formula.
Waite · Part II, §2 · printed pp. 92–95 ↗Edition and image credits
Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.