The Empress
The Empress represents loving, nurturing energy, symbolizing comfort, growth, and fertility. She embodies the divine feminine and reflects various forms of love, whether familial, sexual, or creative. This card encourages abundance and creativity but can also indicate excessive attachment or jealousy when inverted.
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Affectionate Energy
She is lounging in her chair, not sitting up like the other women in the deck. She is comfortable and so, in readings, is comforting. She is surrounded with lush growth and flowers. She holds the symbol of the divine feminine, and in early decks she was pregnant. Water is flowing behind her—moving water shows energy flowing out of her. The trees are green, the sky is lovely, and there are flowers everywhere and stars in her luxurious hair.
Abundant Love
There is a lot of love to give here. It can be sexual or sensual, but it can also be the love of a parent for their child or the love of a farmer for their field. This is a love that encourages growth. She can refer to pregnancy, delight, desire, sexuality, fertility, and sensuality (bow chicka bow bow). This lady is warm, enveloping love. It can refer to pregnancy when it comes up in a reading, so be careful if you’re not looking to expand your family. It also stands for fertility with finances or art. Everything you touch grows.
Spring Vitality
A neat thing I’ve noticed after doing this for over twenty years is that this card comes up during readings all the time during the spring. People tend to get more prolific with their lives and their art—more passionate and focused—and this card reflects that.
Divine Feminine
The Empress is Isis, Tara, Brigid, and Changing Woman. She’s our Mother, she is the nurturer and the protector. The romantic and the lover. She is lush and loving. She is me. She is you, too.
Inverted Empress
The focus can be a problem, though. If that warm, enveloping love doesn’t shine gently, it will turn into a laser and burn people. Don’t be smothery. It becomes that clichéd love that is calling your partner fifteen times a day to say hi. Dude, don’t do that. Inverted, this card is jealousy and nastiness that comes from obsession. It can also be the card of the “mean girls.” Nasty for nasty’s sake. Mean to be mean. Casting aspersions and hurting feelings just because you feel like it. Tsk.
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