The Empress - Meaning of The Empress in Tarot Cards

The tile for The Empress Tarot Card is The daughter of the mighty ones. In the image on the card, a winged goddess crowned with stars can be seen standing upon the Moon. This card suggests the creative and the positive side of nature. The Egyption trilogy, Isis, Hathor and Nephthys, symbolised by the crescent, full moon, and gibbous moon are represented in the Tarot by the High Priestess, Hathor. Either Venus or a crescent Moon is considered to be the symbol for this card. Justice, Nephthys, takes the gibbous moon. Isis and Venus gives the aspect of Love, while Hathor is rather the Mystic, the full moon reflecting the Sun of Tiphareth while in Yesod, transmitting the rays of the Sun in her path Gimel.

The Empress is considered to be the door to inner mysteries. The colours which can be related to The Empress are emerald, sky blue, blue green and rose pink. The Empress Tarot card can be related to beauty, happiness, success and luxury. Sometimes, this card can be related to dissipation, but, only in the presence of other evil cards. The Empress can also be related fertility and rectification of the Earth. She cares about the Earth. She will organise protests about the environment. She is passionate and earthy. She knows how to shake her bits. When the Empress is weak there may be fertility problems, a miscarriage or abortion.

The Empress represents every kind of love, affection, sensuality, femininity, motherhood, fertility and creation. She is voluptuous, curvy, nurturing and caring. The Empress, cooks, bakes, keeps home, mothers you and mothers everyone else. She cares about everyone, whether or not it is her business. She knows her role is at the centre of the family house. The Empress will decorate your house, choose the colours, the fabrics, the styles. She will do the complete makeover. The Empress can be closely related to creation.

The Empress can be seen as a stately figure who is seated and has rich vestments and royal aspects, as of a daughter of heaven and earth. The symbol of Venus can be seen on the shield which is resting just next to her. A field of corn is ripening in front of her, and beyond there is a fall of water. The sceptre which she bears is surmounted by the globe of this world. She is the inferior Garden of Eden, the Earthly Paradise, all that is symbolized by the visible house of man.

The Empress Tarot card signifies a door through which we get into this life. It can also be related to the way in which we move after entering through that door. Most old attributions of this card are completely wrong on the symbolism - as, for example, its identification with the Word, Divine Nature, the Triad, and so forth. The Empress Tarot card can be related to fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days, the unknown, clandestine, difficulty, doubt and ignorance.