The Empress

Tarot de Marseille · III · Earth

Essence: Creativity, fertility, beauty, seduction, sprouting abundance, a confident, radiant woman, ideas that blossom

Traditional reading: A young woman aged 20 to 40, beautiful, intelligent, rich inside, honest and hard-working, well placed; she may be the querent; pregnancy if it comes with The Devil; reversed: lack of generosity, indecision, falseness, betrayal by someone close

General meaning

Upright

creativityfertilitybeautyabundancefemininityexpansion

↕ Reversed: Blocked or overflowing creativity, empty flirtation, vanity, lack of generosity, appearing to be more than you are, projects that stay in bloom, disappointment with a woman close to you

By topic

Love: seductiondesireattraction expressed naturallya self-assured womanlove that blossoms
Friendship: creativeradiant frienda growing circleelegancegenerositygood contacts
Family: mother or fertile womanpregnancyabundant homecarebeauty at home
Career: good positionprofessional creativityrelationships with well-placed peoplestanding outexpanding projects
Work: growing projectsgood communicationcontacts with well-placed peopleproducingshowing yourself
Studies: good ideascommunicationcreative studiesexpressing yourselfacademic growth
Money: abundance through creative workgrowing incomeprojects that bear fruitspending on beautygood situation
Pets: litterbreedingbeautiful well-cared-for animalpamperingabundance at home
Health: vitalitypregnancyfertilitycaring for the bodywellbeing and looking good
Choices: sowshow yourselfchoose what makes things growbet on the creativelet yourself be seen
Creative projects: an idea that blossomstime to sowproduce and showa project bearing fruitcommunicating the work
Creativity: ideas pouring outtime to produce and show what you makeexpressing yourself without asking permissionartistic fertilitybeauty

The keywords for each topic describe the card upright; the reversed meaning has its own line.

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