Card 3

The Empress

Brief Description

The Empress represents creativity, generosity, magnanimity, patience, and love. She symbolizes abundance, wealth, emotional experiences, and a connection to nature. As a creator and mother figure, she nurtures and symbolizes the essence of life itself.

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Description of the Image

Goddess! - the wandering Souls cry out. 'We have brought you gifts!' They fly around the Empress, dancing in the sky. They whirl in colorful circles, creating incredible patterns for her pleasure, and she smiles, accepting them. Her mind and her thoughts conduct this visual symphony.

Gifts from Nature

Tenderly, they weave a wreath of the first buds of spring across her forehead. 'Jasmine and Lily of the Valley graciously offer their first buds for her crown,' the Spirits sigh.

Offerings

'The Apple Tree Man bestows his fruits upon her and the Mistress of the Fields gives her grains.' All of them go into her basket.

Farewell

Swiftly beating their wings, the spirits whirl together and then explode in sparks of light and music. 'Goodbye, dear Goddess!' their voices are heard.

Meaning

Creativity, generosity, magnanimity, patience, love. The Empress signifies abundance, wealth, the test of feelings, and the embrace of nature. She is the Creator. She is the Mother, fertile and nurturing. Holding a basket of the earth's generous gifts—fruits, sheaves of wheat, and wonderful flowers—close to her body like a child, she is the primal essence and personification of life, deeply connected to nature. Crowned with ivy, she is entwined with the colors of the world around her.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Stephanie Pui-Mun Law, Barbara Moore

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