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The Tarot Cards of the Major Arcana

The Empress Tarot Card

The Empress
Tarot Card Number 3 of the Major Arcana
The Empress is a stately, seated figure with rich clothing and a royal look befiitting the daughter of heaven and earth. Her diadem is made of twelve stars, gathered in a cluster. The symbol of Venus is on the shield which rests near her. A field of corn is ripening in front of her, and beyond there is a waterfall. The sceptre which she bears is surmounted by the globe of this world. She represents the inferior garden of Eden, earthly paradise, and the visible house of man.

She is not Regina coeli, or Queen of Heaven, but she is still refugium peccatorum, the fruitful mother of thousands. There are also certain aspects in which she has been correctly described as desire, as the woman clothed with the sun, as Gloria Mundi and the veil of the Sanctum Sanctorum. She is, however, above all other things, representative of universal fertility.

In another order of ideas, the card of the Empress signifies the door or gate into this life and also the way that leads out, into whatever is beyond – a secret known only to the High Priestess,, although she communicates that secret to her chosen ones.
The Empress card represents fruitfulness, action, and initiative. It also symbolizes the unknown and the secret plus doubt, difficulty, and ignorance.

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