On this composition, everything calls for meeting, reunions and union. In its original version, the Two of Cups already has all the attributes of a loving coat of arms. It is the ideal representation of the heraldry that soulmates would undoubtedly display without a shadow of a doubt. Its almost perfect symmetry, however, subtly suggests a narcissistic and immature vision of a self-centered love. If we envision the other as a projection, even a complex one, of ourselves, we reduce them to an incestuous extension of our desire. In this case, the other, a simple idealization of a self-transposed into a pictorial image, does not exist... or at least, not in its singularity. At the bottom and center of the card, the phoenix invites us to conceive of Love in the perfection of its otherness. The union it symbolizes can only occur if we burn our childish dreams of fusion on the pyre of our vanities. Only then do the apparent similarities between the mirror elements reveal themselves as harmonious in their asymmetry. The other is no longer an Oedipal version of a partner built on the paradigms of our childhood... they are distinct, unique, and loved in their individuality: their indivisible duality. Under this necessary and sufficient condition, the two cherubs and the dolphins, with their fish-like appearance, can give birth to a sincere and selfless Love. And the incandescent blaze that the phoenix lights under the starry ermine canopy transforms their devout desires into burning realities... and into descendants.