The Tarot Empress

Keywords

Love, nurturance, beauty, fertility, creativity, growth, harmony, abundance, and, when reversed, problems with fertility (in any area of life), 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. What a gift to be blessed 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 spellcaster when it comes to the bewitchment you can place on your mate's heart.

Feeling alone without a mate, worrying about fertility and futility, and questioning 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

 

Despite her anxieties, the Tarot Empress carries God in her heart and never forgets to thank God for every abundance in her life, no matter how small. The Empress prays to bless others. She knows that blessings are to be shared on earth and are a measure of heavenly reward. But she also knows that without the flame of thankfulness in her heart and a passion for nurturing others, she and those she nurtures would be left in the shadows. Some say the Tarot Empress represents Mother Nature, symbolizing the union between God the Mother (feminine) and God the Father (masculine). Others say she is the feminine side of Jesus, the man who loved unconditionally and taught others to do the same. 

Genesis 1:28 – Be fruitful and multiply.

 

The Tarot Empress in Health Readings

 

Nurturing fatigue (fatigue from over-caretaking) and sensory overload can cause stress, leading to emotional heaviness and digestive stress. When this card appears in a wellness context, explore nervous system support, stress reduction, natural remedies, and lifestyle adjustments that help your body feel safer and more regulated. Love conquers all on just about every level where the Empress is concerned. 

Health issues could include the skin, the buttocks, problems with water retention (or dehydration), hormonal complaints, fertility or pregnancy issues, STDs (such as the herpes virus), or weight gain. Most of the Empress's problems stem from making poor decisions.

Raspberry leaf tea, chamomile, and nourishing soups can be beneficial.

Note: Holistic alternatives for hormonal complaints, HSV, and weight issues can be found here.

 

Tarot Meditation

How 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 on meat-containing diets.

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

 

Artwork: Lamia by John William Waterhouse, 1909