Lily

Meaning

Maturity, and what settles with it. The Lily covers age, experience, calm, and long-established things — an older person, a seasoned relationship, a peace that has been arrived at rather than granted. It also carries virtue and propriety in the older tradition, and sexuality in another line of reading, which sit less oddly together than they first appear: both concern what is private and adult.

The tone is cool, quiet, and mostly favourable. The Lily is slow and does not force anything.

Beside other cards

Can be subject or modifier. As a modifier it ages and calms its neighbour — Lily + Ring is a long-established commitment, Lily + Heart is a mature or settled affection. Beside Child it marks a clear contrast in age or stage.