Card 3

The Empress

Brief Description

The Empress symbolizes nurturing, abundance, and creative fertility deeply connected to the natural world. She embodies sustained nourishment, motherhood, and the pleasure of cultivating beauty and creative desires. Upright, the card indicates creativity, fulfillment, and plentiful resources; reversed, it warns of scarcity, overwhelm, blocked creativity, and poor resource management. Her associations with Venus, Taurus, Libra, and the Hebrew letter Daleth (door) emphasize sensuality, stability, harmony, and opportunities for growth and manifestation.

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Card Title

III - The Empress

Description

A fair-haired maiden sits on a wooden throne decorated with flowers and Celtic knot-work. She leans against a lavish fur backing. She appears to be day-dreaming. Her dress is long and white. She has rolled her sleeves to the elbows and holds a flower-scepter in one hand. A crown of flowers appears on her head and she has a white pearled necklace that lies over her dress. A finely crafted wooden lyre sits next to her. A field of wheat fills the scene in front of her and there is a swiftly flowing waterfall and stream behind her.

Keyword

Nurturing

Hebrew Letter

Daleth, meaning door

Correspondences

Venus, Taurus, Libra

Upright

abundance; feeling creative; sustained nourishment; enjoy the beauty of the earth; cultivate creative desires; love yourself; fertility; feeling happy and fulfilled; motherhood

Reversed

scarcity; overwhelm; disconnect; feeling scared or stifled; poor resource management; creativity blocks; escapism.

Visual Description

A regal woman sits on a high throne draped with fur; she wears a floral crown and a string of pearls and holds a flowering scepter topped with a white lily. A glowing Venus symbol hovers above the throne beneath the Roman numeral III, while a small lyre rests among tall grasses at her feet. The background is a misty, verdant landscape and a Taurus glyph appears near the lower right beside the title in Cyrillic. Colors are muted and the scene emphasizes soft textures of fabric, fur, and natural growth.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Jack Sephiroth, Jaymi Elford

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