The reason you must take notice of the number 6 card in the Cosmic Tribe deck is because there is 3 of them!! It includes 1 card showing a male/female couple, 1 card showing a male/male couple and 1 card showing a female/female couple. This way whatever your sexual orientation, you can just take your pick!! I must admit that I do feel slightly left out because (I don't mean to offend anyone here!) the hetero couple still strikes me as a gay man and lesbian woman together though I could be wrong :0 Its perfectly ok though there is 1 deck as far as I know with gay Lovers and in the hundreds -or more?- of decks which do not. I just plug all three of them in there and like it very much. Its like the extra magicians in the Thoth, I just drop 'em all in.

Now all three of the cards are identical beyond the lovers themselves and the fairies... I LOVE the fairies!! on the m/f couple the fairy is a bald woman with a target on her head. She is dropping a purple daisy in a ray of yellow light down onto the lovers below. She is a rich turquoise blue, and her color is more intense than the fairies on the other two cards which are a more subtle light blue. Opps maybe they are just little blue angels! They do all have little angel wings, not the usual butterfly wings of a fairy. All of the fairies/angels are butt naked. The one on the m/m card is a guy who actually strikes me as being from an old black and white tv show, I have no idea why, he is blue He has orange feathered wings and is dropping his hands down into a purple light circle over the lovers heads. He has a black spiral on each forearm and what looks like a black serpent under and peeking through his right wing. This brings us to fairy/angel number three and I lover her to death! She is a fat blue fairy angel with long orangish hair and emerald green wings. She is holding an orange daisy in each hand. A few years ago I went wild painting fat fairies every chance I got, just like this one. I can think of few things as joyful:) Its one of the reasons I truly love this deck:))

Beyond this all three cards have the couple standing in the clear blue water up to the thigh and there is a ring of fire on the water. The water seems to go on forever and fades into a deep blue sky with symmetrical thick white clouds. Just over midway is a pair of eyes barely more than the sky itself. If you look close enough the eyes almost resemble the earth with the pupils looking like an eclipse with a slight golden ring. On the f/f card there is a barely perceptible third eye in the center.

I would understand the whole of the trio of cards with all the symbolism in consideration as:
All love is good and blessed in the eyes of God.
Though sometimes it can be all consuming (fire) and hurt a little (clouds).

From the book:
"The open-hearted Lovers are gateways for the Universe to express the ecstasy that comes from breaking down the walls of separation."

Marie
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