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The Empress Represents The Path Of Giving Birth To Life...  The Empress Is The Mother Of Earth And The Goddess Of Fertility... 

She Represents The Birth Of Love, Romantic Relationships, Motherhood, And Growth...

In Mystic Tarot, and Greek Mythology, you meet Demeter, the goddess of the Earth, agriculture and fertility. She brings the blessing of a bountiful growing season and harvest, or the disaster of a failing growing season of drought and floods that brings starvation and hunger!

Demeter was the wife of Zeus (the god of the sky, weather patterns, and unexpected thunder bolts) and the mother of Persephone. Persephone grew up to be a beautiful young woman of child-bearing age who was loved and adored by her mother, family and friends. One day, Persephone went to collect flowers when, suddenly without warning, the Earth opened, and Hades, the god of the underworld, snatched her away. Hades was so captivated by her beauty that he wanted her for himself and carried her off to the underworld to be his wife.

Demeter was so broken-hearted that she wandered day and night, looking for her daughter until she found out what had happened to her. Demeter was so hurt that she withdrew herself into a deep depression and neglected her duties as the goddess of agriculture. The Earth ceased to be fertile, and there was no harvest, causing famine all over the Earth.

Zeus was not going to let this continue so he sent Hermes down to the underworld to see Hades. Hermes was the son of Zeus, and known as the messenger of the gods, and told Hades that he had to release Persephone. Hades did not want to send her back; he had a plan, which was to give Persephone a pomegranate to eat because he knew the pomegranate seeds would bind her to him and the underworld forever.

Zeus demanded that his daughter had to leave the underworld to be with her mother for half the year, from the months of March through August. During the months of March through August, Demeter looked after the agriculture duties, and made sure the crops were sown, cultivated, and harvested.

When the constellation, Virgo leaves the sky in the month of September, Persephone returns back into the underworld, and Demeter abandons her agricultural duties. Then the Earth lays waiting until Persephone reappears again in the spring.

Hades And Persephone...

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The Seduction!

The Magical Pomegranate Seeds...

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Hades Gave Persephone A Pomegranate To Eat Because He Knew The Pomegranate Would Bind Persephone To Him And The Underworld Forever!

My Interpretation Of The Empress: The Empress is connected to the planet Venus which pertains to your possessions and your love for them, and also signifies pleasure shared with other people. Concerned with love, romance and harmony throughout the complex strands of your web of emotional attachments, marriages, unions and other close relationships, Venus asks nothing more than to spread happiness and tenderness – all the while teaching you how to love and appreciate others and all that they possess.

When she appears in your reading, the Empress may signify your maternal desire or potentiality, or perhaps your desire to give and receive a mother’s love. All women who consider bringing forth or adding to a family hail Venus as a munificent omen. Either way, the Empress brings the good luck that accompanies growth. She can also signify the need to focus on your role as a mother or your relationship with your own mother or mother figure.

Every human at some level feels the need for love and care, and the Empress signifies those universal feelings of comfort and reward that we receive back when loving and caring for your dearest ones. As a result, she is a sign that abundance and well-being are afoot, and that matters are tending toward their best possible resolution.

When this card appears in a reading, examine the surrounding cards and try to understand the relationship to the question you have asked. If The Empress appears in a reading surrounded by negative cards, perhaps a female in your life threatens to dominate or suffocate you. This position is warning you not to allow her to do so.

The Empress is the “Goddess Card” in my deck. She is the woman whom every man dreams of when he ponders marriage and long term commitment. She dominates the thoughts of man throughout the drudgery of the working week, but it is Friday that he truly yearns to spend with her, for that is not only his favorite day, but a day with special connections for her as well. In fact, the energies of this card speak of love in the air, and those on the verge of a marriage proposal can well expect it to happen on Friday night. Indeed, man wants the Empress to spend the rest of her life with him and mother his children, for she is already the perfect mother to the Earth, her family, and her friends.

Fertility, sexuality, and beauty define her, and as the life-giving mother, her being is intertwined with the Earth and its rhythms. Her gentle, caring, and patient nature empower her to bring anything to fruition and make it grow, as if she were herself a fertile seed. The Empress stands for the giving of birth to life and embodies the bright, inner energies that allow its full cultivation. Some call her a garden in which your dearest wishes and desires are planted to be lovingly nourished by her.

This woman plays a dizzying multitude of roles – mother, keeper of the home, wife, lover, muse, and career woman – but in each of them, action, growth, and dynamic motion always define her. At times, dissatisfaction and vanity overpower you, pushing to exaggerate all your needs and desires, stunting your growth. The only way to recover is to stop and assess, so that you can recover the path you have strayed from. So too, the Empress occasionally suffers from blurred focus. She loses herself and must rise to the challenge of discovering precisely what has gone wrong.

The Reverse Meaning Of The Empress: The reverse meaning of the Empress is her obsession with vanity, coldness and neglect toward her family and friends, an obsession that allows unworthy distractions to take precedence while she deceives you as to her true feelings. Although the Empress is the provider of life, she is also the destroyer of life. She may also engage in clandestine meetings that go undiscovered for years.

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The Empress’s Journey Stopped – Suffering From Blurred Focus And Distractions!

I hope you have enjoyed your card for today! Please let me know your experience with the Empress card, and if you met someone special on a Friday night, or if you received a proposal of marriage, or if you received your engagement ring on Friday Night!

With Love and Joy,

Safina

© Safina 2013