The Empress
The Empress embodies conventional femininity, fertility, abundance, beauty, and a nurturing maternal power. She symbolizes creativity, sensuality, harmony, and material or physical fertility, signified by the pomegranate she holds lower than the High Priestess's. The card encourages growth, care, artistic expression, and the comforts of nature and luxury. In shadow or reversed, it warns of dependence, creative blocks, weakness of will, emotional stagnation, or overbearing tendencies.
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Card Name
The Empress
Poem
Poem: Beauty before me, beauty within; a life with abundance, a life without sin. You may mock me aplenty – call me shallow or vain – dismiss me as weak or easily slain. Yet it is you I hold close – like a child to the breast – whilst you writhe in your pain, dishevelled, distressed.
Meaning
Meaning: The Empress is the pinnacle of conventional femininity. She represents fertility, abundance, beauty, and exudes a very nurturing and maternal power. Like the High Priestess, she too holds a pomegranate, but hers is positioned lower to signify material or physical fertility.
Shadow Self
Her shadow self, however, is dependent on others, weak-willed, and suffers from creative blocks.
Upright Keywords
Upright keywords: beauty, fertility, pregnancy, nature, abundance, creativity, sensuality, conventional femininity, nurturing, harmony, maternal wisdom, art, motherhood, luxury, compassion, grace
Reversed Keywords
Reversed keywords: creative block, fertility issues, dependence on others, stunted growth (especially emotionally), overbearingness, insecurity, shame, disharmony, negligence, rejecting your societal role for better or worse
Visual Description
A seated woman in a flowing green and gold gown fills the oval frame; she wears a crown of flowers and small horns and has long dark hair falling over her shoulders. She holds a pomegranate-like fruit in her hands amid tall wheat, scattered blossoms, and other fruit at her feet. Behind her a blossoming tree, a distant waterfall and a radiating halo of dots and lines arc beneath the Roman numeral III at the top of the card.
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