THE EMPRESS

• MOTHERING
• ABUNDANCE
• SENSES
• NATURE

• Actions
• Opposing Cards
• Reinforcing Cards
• Description

ACTIONS

• MOTHERING
• giving birth
• nourishing life
• nurturing and caring for others
• cherishing the world
• expressing tenderness
• working with children

• ABUNDANCE
• enjoying extravagance
• receiving lavish reward
• luxuriating in plenty
• having more than enough
• feeling rich

• SENSES
• giving and receiving pleasure
• focusing on the body
• appreciating beauty
• feeling vibrantly healthy
• being earthy
• doing physical activity

• NATURE
• relating to plants and animals
• embracing the natural
• feeling connected to the Earth
• going outdoors
• harmonizing with natural rhythms

OPPOSING CARDS: Some Possibilities

• Emperor - fathering, order and discipline, regularity
• Death - principle of death
• Four of Pentacles - miserly possessiveness
• Nine of Pentacles - refinement, sophistication

REINFORCING CARDS: Some Possibilities

• Lovers - sexual fulfillment, pleasure
• Star - generosity, free-flowing love
• Nine of Cups - enjoying the senses
• Seven of Pentacles - material reward
• Ten of Pentacles - affluence, luxury, physical comfort

DESCRIPTION

The Empress and the High Priestess are the two halves of the female archetype in the major arcana. The Empress represents the fertile, life-giving Mother who reigns over the bounty of nature and the rhythms of the Earth. From her comes all the pleasures and joys of the senses and the abundance of new life in all its forms. The Empress encourages you to strengthen your connections with the natural world which is the ground of our being. Too often false sophistications and pleasures take us far from our roots.

In readings the Empress can refer to any aspect of Motherhood. She can be an individual mother, but as a major arcana card, she also goes beyond the specifics of mothering to its essence - the creation of life and its sustenance through loving care and attention.

The Empress can also represent lavish abundance of all kinds. The Empress asks you to embrace the principle of life and enjoy its bountiful goodness.

• TAROT CARDS
• TAROT CARDS MAJOR ARCANA
• Tarot cards, major arcana: the fool;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: the magician;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: the high priestess;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: the empress;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: the emperor;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: the hierophant;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: the lovers;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: the chariot;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: strength;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: the hermit;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: wheel of fortune;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: justice;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: the hanged man;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: death;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: temperance;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: the devil;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: the tower;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: the star;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: the moon;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: the sun;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: judgement;
• Tarot cards, major arcana: the world;