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The Empress

This is the fourth card in the Major Arcana and is numbered 3.

Divination

Execution of your decisions are in you own hands now.  You need to take calculated risks to achieve your goals. You may receive some good news related to a wedding or birth of a baby. Now is the time to take action and develop your creativity.

Keywords: Fertility, Creativity, Birth, Abundance, Success, Feminine, Nature.

The Empress is a card of beauty and creativity, the matriarch incarnate, symbolic of the Universal Mother. She represents the feminine in the maternal role: procreation, nurturing, the security and comforts of home and domestic harmony. The Empress is a mature female figure, often seated on a throne. In some dictionary shown standing in a field surrounded by flowers and vegetation representative of Mother Nature (Gaea). She is also sometimes to pick today’s pregnant, symbolising fruitfulness and abundance. In addition as a symbol of her royal position she sometimes holds a sceptre and wears a crown. In the Waite deck, this is heart-shaped and bears the astrological symbol for Venus. Venus is the goddess of love and her planet symbolises duty desires and pleasure and she is traditionally the feminine symbol.

Interpretation

When the Empress appears, strong feminine energy is at work. As both the mother figure and representative of the traditional feminine role, the Empress is a creative force that works for harmony. She brings disparity things together, reconciling differences, like a mother running a household and taking care of her family. This particular card is a card of emotional control and congeniality. The Empress also refers to the persons’ emotional and physical resources for nurturing, he, feeding and supporting other people. Often, there is a situation in the person’s life were alive and nurturing are required – sometimes by the person herself, sometimes by others. This card may refer to the way the person was mother, for the first and most significant relationship you form is with your mother, and the relationship has a direct bearing on all subsequent relationships. It is sometimes said that the Empress is linked to all the mother goddesses of antiquity, but especially to Greek Hera, the wife of Zeus and the quintessential matriarchal maternal figure. She’s called Juno by the Romans. As a primary symbol for feminine fertility, she is associated not only with Demeter, Ceres and all the pagan mother goddesses, but also with the Christian Virgin Mary.

Meaning

You are in a position of nurturing someone else or several others. You should be caring for children or the sick, or being supportive to your spouse or a friend in need. This card could also refer to a pregnancy, or the desire for a pregnancy. It is appropriate for you to be nurturing now, or you have the inner strength and the ability to do so without depleting yourself.

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