Grizabella
cosmoline said:When I first started this thread I had thought I remembered seeing in Thirteens list of Tarot Meanings, a mention of the word "romance" along side of illusion, dreams, things like that.
Cosmoline
Being honest, isn't a lot of romance just illusion and dreams? Say a man sets the scene for a woman for a night:
Candles, flowers, dinner for two, soft music.
The woman walks in and she thinks "Oh gosh, he's such a romantic. He wants to bond more deeply and maybe even pop the question. Or maybe he wants to bring up getting pregnant." You choose what she might be thinking.
The man, however, has set the scene because he knows it will push certain buttons with her and get her into a mushy, gushy mood where she'll not be mad that he just bought a new sports car. And of course, may get a nice evening of sex out of the effort, too. Especially if he goes along with one of the illusions she's got about why he might have set the romantic mood. If he doesn't pop the question or say "let's make a baby", he can sidestep it with enough finesse to let her think they're on the brink of a breakthrough toward her goals.
That's a really pragmatic example, but it makes the point that romance isn't always face forward, two people on the same train going to the same destination. So that would fall under the category of the Moon card, I think.