Up – Choice. Intuition can help.
A love affair implies a choice. Fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. A test. Responsibility for one's actions.
Reversed – Moral lapse. Wrong choice. Failure to meet the test. Less a wrong choice than a refusal to choose.
The Lovers is about choice. The Fool has many options open to him, but the choice shown by the Lovers is more defined. It is, basically, the choice between growing up – taking responsibility, becoming an adult, marrying- or remaining a child, becoming a "mother's boy". Adam became a man, rather than remaining a trusting puppet, by eating the fruit of the tree. He could have chosen not to eat the fruit and remained a creature of instinct and innocence – a baby.
A man chooses a wife. Life is not guaranteed to be happy. He and his wife will certainly quarrel. Nevertheless, he has chosen to stand on its own two feet.
Reversed, The Lovers is a wrong choice, a refusal to grow by recognising that it is time to put away childish things, and so, by passiveness, the choice is made. It's like stopping a car by taking your foot off the accelerator rather than by pressing the brake; a negative, unsatisfactory solution.
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