The Empress
The Empress represents a multifaceted, talented woman who holds worldly power but faces the duality of life and death, beauty and suffering. She symbolizes material mastery and the potential to give life to forms, though she herself may struggle with traditional maternal themes. This card advises focusing on planning and material goals while avoiding uncertainty and laziness, as these contradict the Empress's principles.
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Symbolism
The red clothing represents love and tenderness. One cannot overlook the pierced heart on her dress - her life is not sweet but filled with suffering. The fan covering a skull while revealing a beautiful, human face also takes on the meaning of a beautiful, classical empress. Such a person is multifaceted, multi-talented, and gifted in everything, possessing many resources in various directions. But here the colors red and black are present, representing life and death. Also, she is not pregnant as we are all accustomed to seeing. Here the Empress is a ruler of the world, but an illusory one - everything that is form and matter eventually dies. A bright carnival image of decay, inevitable spiritual pain. But at her feet lies a log, a potential Pinocchio lies there, meaning she can give life to this form, but form by itself is dead and will only come alive when a soul enters it. The empress's scepter has a feminine, flowing shape, and the cross on it speaks of the material in this world.
Card's Message
A beautiful woman whose idea of motherhood has taken a back seat, she is status-conscious, loving life and brightness, occupying a high position in the world. The theme of motherhood has a tragic side - abortions, stillbirths, miscarriages, but this depends on the context of the question.
Advice
The advice from this card is about planning for achieving material goals. Avoid uncertainty and laziness - these are not in the Empress's principles.
Visual Description
A regal skeletal figure sits on a gilded throne draped in a voluminous red robe embroidered with a radiant heart. She holds a golden scepter across her lap and raises a pale fan to partially obscure her decorated skull-like face while blue butterflies flutter about. Sunflower-shaped petals form a halo behind her head and abundant yellow and red blossoms spill in from the left. At her feet are more flowers and a tree stump on a wooden floor; the card title 'THE EMPRESS' and the Roman numeral III appear along the bottom and sides.
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