The Empress
Keywords: Motherly, nurturing, tenderhearted, fruitful, driving, controlling, abundance, creative nourishing, extensive.
The Empress expresses a heavenly realm on earth or in matter, where heaven and spirit are reflected in what she holds dear and in the beauty of which she feels a part. With the potential of her creative and physical abilities she can bring forth wealth and the power she possesses. Her number is 3, in it she expresses the spirituality of the material wealth and the love of all living things and she is the flow of this dynamic principle in which the energy and power alternates between different modes that generate this flow.
It is through duality, the male and the female, that she brings forth a new life to continue the earthly cycle.
a new life that will continue the earthly cycle in the world. 3 an stands for the dynamics between the three legs, an exchange between forces that enrich and create a
forces that enrich and create a creative dynamic. The power that the Empress devotedly maintains in the earthly realm as a yardstick for finding growth and nourishment for all elements of life. So too the
sensual expression around the growing and lush is a symbol of her infinite love for her creation and its preservation for those she feels responsible for.
She is the force that devotedly upholds the earthly realm as a yardstick for finding sensual and emotional expression around the growing and lush nature and the elements she embodies.
To consolidate the creative element in nature and the elements she embodies.
She is the mother of us all and the origin of life
and the Empress owns her environment and embodies its beauty and sensual origin As energy, she can be both creator and sustainer and the one who checks that what she has created and loved has intended what she has brought into the world.
In the garden tarot I have chosen to create her as a beautiful woman slightly pregnant. She is aware that she is pregnant with a new life that will fertilise her and her partners kingdom which she cherishes all the material aspects that she can get and have in her possession. She owns beauty and at the same time preserves it. she has the comfortable life while generating the power to hold together and control her existence. she also has great emotional resources to express in her life. She really wants to master what she is posseing and under her control in her life.
In her professional life, we find the Empress in various caring professions that have to do with children and births, being a hotel owner and having something to do with cooking and being generally handy with the earthly trade and abundant chores that show a great wealth to have power and to be the base for.
"Upright"
This card shows the abundance of life, resources of various kinds and a secure place in life. The card also shows beauty and aesthetics, motherliness. Harmony, creativity and sensualism together with nature.
"Reversed"
This position shows insecurity, not being grounded, lack of confidence and fulfilment. Lack of maturity and disdain for being in harmony with the environment. Disregarding and erasing things that could be of great importance and value. Difficulties with resources and material assets. Excessive consumption.