The Empress
The Goddess-Mother card represents abundance, fertility, emotional fulfillment, and harmony with nature. It signifies growth, development, and projects nearing completion. She embodies benevolence, comfort, and love. Connected to the summer solstice, this card can indicate pregnancy, marriage, or the start of a creative project, symbolizing the flourishing cycle of life.
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Symbolism
Through a field of wheat, holding a cornucopia filled with the fruits of the harvest, walks the Goddess-Mother, pregnant with a god. She symbolizes the fullness of nature, in all its fertility, health, and power.
Implications
She may speak of pregnancy or conception, growth, development, approaching completion of projects, or potential ready to manifest soon.
Cultural Significance
In Ancient Rome, she was a popular goddess of abundance. She was depicted on buildings and fountains, holding an overflowing cornucopia. The generous Goddess-Mother is a patroness of crops and harvests.
Representation
Her image embodies generosity, the enjoyment of comfort and love in times of peace and plenty. Her blue attire is associated with both the goddess and good health. She holds her staff with wheat stalks like a scepter, indicating her power lies in the earth, embodying the very land on which all survival depends.
Seasonal Association
This card is associated with the day of the summer solstice, the Sabbat of Litha.
Mythology
The Goddess is impregnated by the horned god, after which he transitions into the guise of a sage, the Holly King. The Goddess-Mother becomes the source of new life, projecting sensitivity and wisdom, standing between worlds.
Applications
Her influence can be felt in matters of self-expression, the initiation of a creative project, family joys. Depending on the question or surrounding cards in the spread, the arcana can indicate marriage or pregnancy.
Symbolic Interpretation
It speaks of anticipation, hopes, and pleasure. The wreath on the goddess's head indicates her belonging to the life cycle and signifies that she is in her prime.
Deeper Meaning
Her own fruit, on which the world depends, ripens within her, as her child, the reborn Oak King, will see the light on Yule, paving the way for spring after winter.
Wealth Symbolism
The wheat fields and ripe ears on her staff symbolize wealth, fertility, and luck.
Abundance Symbols
The flock of ducks at her feet signifies abundance, prosperity, and fertility.
Meaning
Abundance, fertility, emotional fulfillment, harmony with nature, growth, development, project nearing completion, rural magic, robust health, intellect, family joys, safety, beauty, sensitivity, pregnancy, motivation.
Reversed Meaning
Unrecognized potential, unfulfilled creativity, inconsistency, slow development.
Keywords
Abundance, fertility.
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