It encourages you to get in touch with your feminine side and focus on being a good role model and nurturer to children. EMPRESS at the Asian Civilisations Museum. This may be the perfect chance to take up a new hobby that enables you to access this part of yourself. Now is the time to bring your loving energy and focus to yourself, especially if you have been giving away your personal power by placing too much emphasis on another person’s emotional or material needs, thus neglecting your own. Unsurprisingly, it can also indicate fertility and pregnancy. It can also mean a lack of confidence and feelings of undesirability. According to Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, The Empress is the inferior (as opposed to nature's superior) Garden of Eden, the "Earthly Paradise". The Empress card in a Tarot love reading is excellent. Connect with your senses through taste, touch, sound, smell and sight. On her head, she wears a crown of twelve stars, showing her connection with the mystical realm and the cycles of the natural world (the twelve months of the year and the twelve planets). The reversed Empress may call your attention to issues around body image. Create beauty in your life. When the Empress appears in your Tarot readings, take a moment to reflect on the bounty that surrounds you and offer gratitude for all you have created so you can continue to build on this energy and create even more abundance in your life. In historical decks, the Empress sits on a throne, almost always holding a shield or orb in one hand and a scepter in the other. Reversed: Light, truth, the unraveling of involved matters, public rejoicings; according to another reading, vacillation.
Breathe in the radiant energy as you’re surrounded by nature’s beauty and take time to notice the little things: an ant racing along on the ground, new leaves budding on the trees, or the rich purples and greens of the flowers and plants. Rediscover your beauty, inside and out. She augurs a need for us to be in touch with our feminine side, to listen to our intuition, and to give priority to our emotions and passions. The Empress can be represented by Aphrodite, a figure from Greek mythology. If this resonates, it is time to shift your focus from the mother-child relationship to an adult-to-adult relationship by creating independence, trust and loving compassion.
Waite writes that the card carries these several divinatory associations: 3. The Empress (III) is the third trump or Major Arcana card in traditional Tarot decks. Reversed, the Empress encourages you to make self-love and self-care a priority. The Empress blend is a selection of seasonal, quality teas, created exclusively for Fairmont Empress by the Metropolitan Tea Company. Or can't find what you’re looking for? This card tells you that if you want your wishes to be fulfilled, you need to exercise patience and allow things to gestate and sprout. All prices in USD.