Major Arcana#3
fertilityproductivityripenessnurturing
The Empress
Pregnancy is in the cards
An opportunity to be involved in luxurious sexuality is coming
Beware a tendency toward addiction
Light
- Nurturing yourself and others
- Bearing fruit
- Celebrating your body
- Bearing (literal or figurative) children
- Reveling in luxury
- Mothering those around you in positive ways
- Enjoying your sexuality
- Getting things done
Shadow
- Overindulging
- Being greedy
- Smothering someone with attention
- Debilitating someone by being overprotective
- Inhibiting productivity by obsessing on productivity
- Being overcome by addictive behavior
Mystical Correspondences
Archetype
The Mother
Element
Venus
Numerology
3 (expression, productivity, output)
Hebrew Letter
Daleth/Door/4
Mythical & Spiritual
Gaia, Mother Earth, Ishtar, DemeterÑmature, reproductive female divinity in every form. Also Aphrodite and Turan.
Questions to Ask
- 1.What would a concerned and capable mother do?
- 2.What can I do that would emphasize growth?
- 3.How can I celebrate my own sensuality and sexuality?
