Learning the Tarot Cards: III - The Empress

The Major Arcana Deck:  The Empress

Number III

Harmony
Creation

Arcana: Major deck (signals cycle in life and represents a key time)

Element 
Earth

Planet 
Venus (harmony, beauty and union)

Card Meaning 
Comfort, protection
Mother (Birth)
Luxury (material gain, productive environment)

Key Symbols

Pomegranate (unity, fertility and reproduction)
Eagle on Shield (immortality, superior forces of nature)
Fruit (abundance)
Plants - Wheat (fertile) (abundance, life, fertility)
Gown - flowing (purity of motivation)
Crescent moon (divine light, meditation, imagination reflection, instinctive

contact with higher being)
Trees (life itself, evolution-experience and awareness)
Water (formless experience…emotion, ending of ego)
Waterfall (subconscious, physic activity)
Holy/Solar Cross (union of positive and negative)
Heart-red (warmth, love, centre of harmony)

Colours 

Blue (water, balanced spiritual understanding)
Light Blue (devotion, inspiration, peace, blessings, tranquillity, innocence)
Green (nature, renewal, vitality, harmony, fertility)
Yellow (air, mental-intellect, imagination-creativity, skill, balance)
Pink (love, gentleness, spiritual fulfilment)
Red (fire, passion, intense desire, eagerness, courage, health)

Affirmation: I am at one - I see the beauty in all creation, I use my feminine, 

loving energy within me

“I lovingly nurture myself, nature and all life”

The Empress often appears in a reading when we need encouragement and 

support…nurturing and positivity in our life (blessings). Represents 

abundance and well- being (good foundations in the home, material matters, 

feelings and thoughts). Can also indicate pregnancy, motherhood and the 

growing of ideas.