Major Arcana Series- the Empress

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today we move forward with the tarot writing project and visit the Empress.

Overview:

The Empress is represented by Venus therefore encourages growth, abundance, fertility, love and beauty. In the reasons for the situation position involves a motherly nurturing person or a time to focus on harmonizing relationships and socializing. The Empress describes a creative, highly artistic situation, where you can ripe the results of hard labour. It can also mean the occurrence of a life event such as a marriage, a pregnancy or a child birth.

Issues and Problems:

You may have concerns regarding your neighbourhood or your local community. Use harmony, interaction and respect when solving your issues. In challenges position the Empress can be announcing the feeling of “empty nest”, lonely or without purpose.  If that is not the case another situation may be that you are withdrawing from a project you have started due to creativity blockage, depressive mood or financial problems.

Advice:

Now is an excellent time to develop your creative idea, to produce something new or to conceive a child. Also, if you want to change your appearance, try a new hairstyle, buy a new fashionable outfit and even do that plastic surgery you’ve been postponing there is no better time to do it than now. Express your creativity and you prosper and enjoy all material comfort. Open your heart, share your good feelings and you will find the love you are looking for and deserve.

In the image above from left to right we have the Empress tarot card in: deck #1 Tarot of Jane Austen, deck#2 Tarot of the Celtic Faeries, deck #3 Nicoletta Ceccoli Tarot and deck #4 Dark Grimoire Tarot.

In the first deck we have Anne Weston of Jane Austen's Emma novel. Formerly introduced as Ann Taylor, a governess, Miss Taylor has the wonderful opportunity to marry the wealthy Mr. Weston. In the Empress tarot deck, the Empress is obviously pregnant and this suggests fertility and feminine principles often associated with this card. Going even further with this interpretation, being pregnant can symbolize giving birth to something creative: a book, a plan or a project.
The empress is  also a caregiver; we often find her assisting a child or an elderly. Because the Empress tarot card is associated with Venus, she is suggesting someone loving, supportive and compassionate.

In the Tarot of the Celtic Faeries deck the Empress is represented by Onagh, the wife of the king Finvarra and the queen of all faeries. Onagh is recognized as a "nurturing spirit" giving "unconditional love". The fruit in this card "the cherry", symbolizes that you are ready to collect "the fruit" of your labors. In other words, if you have been pursuing a goal, now is time to see the results of your work. Use of force is not recommended with this card, use a more gentle, nurturing approach instead.

The Empress in the third deck is deeply connected with nature. The girl pictured in this card looks involved with the earth's creatures that surround her. There is a love in return, with this card.

In the Dark Grimoire Tarot, the Empress represents Mother Nature. The lady in the picture is from the book of Chulu.  Here, the empress reigns over banished creatures, who await to be conjured up again in order to return and rule over the surface of the planet. In this context she awaits to manifest life again and she is the Goddess of the old inhabitants of this world.