Card 3

The Empress

Brief Description

The Empress symbolizes nurturing abundance, generosity, and the satisfaction of natural desires through careful cultivation and mindful stewardship. She provides comfort and support while others conceive and plan. Reversed, the card warns you to reassess priorities and address neglected essentials of your happiness. Well-intentioned care can become smothering or overbearing, and the image of overwatering plants illustrates how excessive attention can cause harm.

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The Empress

Upright

The Empress is representative of generosity and comfort. The Fool wishes, the Magician plans, the High Priestess ponders, and the Empress provides. This card indicates the satisfaction of natural desires through careful cultivation and mindful stewardship.

Reverse

Priorities must be reassessed. You may have neglected to attend to those things that are essential to your happiness. Attempts to convey care and thoughtfulness have twisted into something smothering and overbearing. If you overwater your plants, their roots will rot.

Visual Description

A regal woman stands front and center with deep blue-gray skin and voluminous dark hair studded with golden stars. She holds a tall golden stalk or scepter that resembles a wheat ear, and dozens of wheat stalks rise around her at the lower edge of the image. Concentric circular lines, small stars and a pink sky form a halo behind her, and she wears a white collar and beaded gold necklaces over a simple dress. The card shows the Roman numeral III at the top and the title 'the empress' at the bottom.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Trungles (Trung Le Nguyen)

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