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Major Arcana
The Empress

III - The EmpressCard Description(s):

She is sometimes represented with full face, while her correspondence, The Emperor, is in profile. As there has been some tendency to ascribe a symbolical significance to this distinction, it seems desirable to say that it carries no inner meaning.
The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal creativity and in a general sense with activity.

 

 

Inner Symbolism(s):

  • A stately figure, seated, having rich vestments and royal aspect, as of a daughter of heaven and earth.
  • Her diadem is of twelve stars, gathered in a cluster.
  • The symbol of Venus is on the shield which rests near her.
  • A field of corn is ripening in front of her, and beyond there is a fall of water.
  • The sceptre which she bears is surmounted by the globe of this world.

  • She is the inferior Garden of Eden, the Earthly Paradise, all that is symbolized by the visible house of man.
  • She is not Regina coeli, (Queen of Heaven), but she is still refugium peccatorum, (refuge of sinners), the fruitful mother of thousands.
  • There are also certain aspects in which she has been correctly described:
    • as desire and the wings thereof
    • as the woman clothed with the sun
    • as Gloria Mundi, (thus passes the glory of the world), and the veil of the Sanctum Sanctorum (Holy of Holies).
  • She is above all things universally creative and fruitfull and the outer sense of the Word.
  • In another order of ideas, the card of The Empress signifies the door or gate by which an entrance is obtained into this life, as into the Garden of Venus; and then the way which leads out therefrom, into that which is beyond, is the secret known to The High Priestess: it is communicated by her to the elect.

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