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The Empress Tarot Card Meaning
The Empress is card III of the Major Arcana. Upright it speaks of abundance, nurturing, fertility; reversed, of creative block, dependence. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's Jungian archetype and its astrological correspondence.
Major ArcanaEarthVenus
Upright meaning
“Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days; the unknown, clandestine; also difficulty, doubt, ignorance”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911
Keywords: abundance, nurturing, fertility, sensuality, creativity.
Reversed meaning
“Light, truth, the unravelling of involved matters, public rejoicings; according to another reading, vacillation”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911
Keywords: creative block, dependence, neglect of self, over-giving.
The archetype
The Great Mother — fertility, embodiment, nourishment; the creative matrix from which life grows.
Astrology
Correspondence: Venus.
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