The Tarot Empress

Em'-pris ~ The female ruler of an empire (or another type of imperial realm) or the wife or widow of an emperor.

Number: III, 3

Hebrew Letter: Daleth (or Dalet)

Color: Emerald Green

Element: Earth

Chakra: Root 

Humor: Black Bile

Temperament: Melancholic

Sense: Smell

Keywords

Love, beauty, fertility, creativity, growth, harmony, abundance, and, when reversed, problems with pregnancy/motherhood or insecurity​

The Lesson of the Tarot Empress is Nurturance

The Fool meets, accepts, and appreciates the loving, nurturing, feminine aspect of the personality.

Personality (Strengths & Weaknesses)

The Melancholic temperament is associated with the Red Aura Color Personality (Earth).

The Tarot Empress Traditional Meanings

Your station and potential are fulfilled. You express your creative instincts so beautifully. How wonderful it is to be gifted with such abundance. Love, effort, and persistence have paid off. Life's truest gifts of family, health, and material gain are blessings in their own right.

You are and will always be the wife of your husband's dreams, a teacher of love, mother or nurturer of children, and perhaps part spell caster when it comes to the bewitchment you can place on your mate's heart.

Feeling alone in the absence of a mate, worries concerning fertility and futility, and concerns over the foundations of financial and material security may leave you shaken and insecure. These thoughts threaten you most when you doubt that you are loved, but when you know you are loved, your creativity and loving light shine the brightest.

The Tarot Empress Biblical Meaning

Biblical meanings of the Tarot Empress card can be found here.

The Tarot Empress in Health Readings

Health issues could include the skin, the buttocks, problems with water retention (or dehydration), hormonal complaints, fertility or pregnancy issues, STDs, such as Herpes Simplex Virus, or weight gain. Most of the Empress's problems stem from making poor decisions. However, love conquers just about all (on every level) where the Empress is concerned. 

Tarot Meditation

In what ways can you express creativity or attract more abundance into your life?

Food Remedies

The Empress doesn't do well with spicy or processed foods. Stale, rancid, or astringent foods, soy, too many nuts (especially peanuts) and beans, nightshades, especially tomatoes, and eggplant, will bother the Melancholic temperament. The Melancholic fares better with diets containing meat.

Melancholic (Red): See Raising Red & Melancholic Temperament Energy Levels

Choosing Herb & Essential Oils

Basil, benzoin, black pepper, cedarwood, cinnamon, red clover, eucalyptus, frankincense, geranium, holy basil, lavender, lemon, myrrh, oak moss, orange, patchouli, peppermint, rose hips, rose absolute, rose otto, rosemary, rosewood, sage, sandalwood, turmeric, vanilla, vetiver, and violet leaf.

Stones & Crystals

Red garnet, red ruby, red jasper, red-brown tiger's eye, red coral, hematite, black onyx, obsidian, bloodstone, smoky quartz, jet, or a plain black pebble