Your Chosen Card – The Empress Upright Golden Deck
When upright, the Empress symbolizes fertility, pregnancy, motherhood, sensuality and creative imagination. This card may herald an impending marriage, the desire to have children, or the birth of a child. You are entering a period of productivity and abundance, often in the form of offspring of either the body or the mind. You are capable of great productivity as you assist the passage of your creative ideas through their birth canal. Support and nurturing are available. It is important to exercise proper care of the body at this time.
Keywords Upright: Fertility, pregnancy, marriage, motherhood, the desire to have children, material abundance, luxury, sensuality, attraction, physical comfort, gestation, the womb, childbirth, the birth canal, nurturing, growth, feminine power, love of nature, enjoyment of sex, a fertile imagination, productivity, bearing fruit, protecting the environment, enjoyment of the outdoors.
Key III: The Empress
Myths/Archetypes: Demeter. Mother Nature. The Earth Goddess. The Great Mother. The Caregiver. Gaia. Mary Magdalene. Queen of Queens. The Garden of Eden.
Astrology: Venus, goddess of love and beauty. (Venus rules Taurus and Libra)
Numerology: 3 (Em-press) ~ 1 + 2 (Hanged Man) ~ 2 + 1 (The World)
Golden Dawn: Luxury, beauty, pleasure, happiness, success; with negative cards, indulgence, dissipation (meanings derived from Venus, goddess of love and sensual pleasures).
When The Empress is upright you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise. If The Empress is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is The Empress is trying to tell you. If you had a particular issue in mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.
This chosen card is part of your upright card reading for The Empress using cards from the Golden Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.
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Complete Book of Tarot: Golden Dawn: Faith, hope, help coming from unexpected sources; when ill-dignified, false hopes, dreaminess.
Complete Book of Tarot: Astrology: Air of Fire. (Note the airy backdrop of blue sky, clouds, and mountain peaks in the distance. In the foreground, the hot dry dessert becomes a setting for the throne capped with the head of a lion. The salamander at the Kings feet is associated in mythology with Fire; the Central European ‘fire salamander’ has fiery golden-yellow markings on its back.)
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Complete Book of Tarot: Astrology: Air of Fire. (Note the airy backdrop of blue sky, clouds, and mountain peaks in the distance. In the foreground, the hot dry dessert becomes a setting for the throne capped with the head of a lion. The salamander at the Kings feet is associated in mythology with Fire; the Central European ‘fire salamander’ has fiery golden-yellow markings on its back.)