Tarot: The Empress

Main Association: Creativity/ abundance/ Nurture

Quick Reference: Motherhood, abundance, senses, nature, imagination,abundance, femininity, beauty, love, values, creativity, productive action, creation, fertility, new projects, nurturing, Mother Earth, nature, birth, wealth, marriage, pregnancy

Element/Sign: Water
Planet: Venus, Mercury
Zodiac: Taurus, Libra, Gemini
Chakra: Heart, Sacral
Day: Sunday, Friday
Archangel: Raphael, Haniel, Gabriel
Qabalistic Correspondences: Reproductive system
Color: Spring green, turquoise, rose pink
Crystal: Chrysocolla, rose quartz, emerald, rhodocrosite, green tourmaline, pink tourmaline
Metal:
Body: The neck, throat, cervix, the pregnant womb, thyroid, thymus gland, palate, cheeks, lips
Exercise: Sensual dance of any kind
Stance: Holding one arm as if cradling a baby and the other as if holding up a mirror to the face
Affirmation: Seeing only beauty in creation, I lovingly nurture myself and those in my care

The Empress can signify a maternal figure or mean you are about to enter into a creative phase. The Empress can signify the start of a creative project. The Earth other icon of the Empress is both the provider of energy and the catalyst of your inspiration.

The Empress is symbolic of the Earth Mother or nurturer, the archtype feminine principle in its role of abundant, sensual fertility. She signifies benevolence, creation, and ripeness. In the sequence of the journey of the soul through the Major Arcana, the Empress is the worldly child of the Magician and the High Priestess. Her earthiness and drive to procreate are qualities that lead her to become the mother who rules the Earth and all growing, living things.

A card of passion and energy, the Empress manifests itself as physical birth; thus she can signify pregnancy, or the medium of creative urges and projects. She can be viewed as a muse, a catalyst to the outbursts of imaginative energy. The Empress in a Tarot reading has the power to inspire. The position of the Empress’s hands connects her with the Magician card and shows that she is the primal creative force that brings together heaven and earth.