The Empress

Beauty before me,

beauty within;

a life with abundance,

a life without sin.

You may mock me aplenty

-call me shallow or vain -

dismiss me as weak

or easily slain.

Yet it is you 1hold close

- like a child to the breast-

whilst you writhe in your pain,

disheveled, distressed.

The Empress is the pinnacle of

conventional femininity. She represents

fertility, abundance, beauty, and exudes

a very nurturing and maternal power.

Like the High Priestess, she too holds a

pomegranate,but hers is positioned

lower to signify material or physical

fertility.

Her shadow self however, is dependent

on others, weak willed,and suffers from

creative blocks.

Upright beauty·fertilitypregnancy

·nature·abundancecreativity

·sensuality·conventional femininity

nurturing·harmony·maternal

wisdom·art·motherhood·luxury

·compassion*grace

Reversed: creative block·fertility issues

dependence on others·stunted

growth (especially emotionally)

*overbearingness·insecurity·shame

·disharmony*negligencerejecting

your societal role for better or worse