Some of y’all might come at me for this but, I dont associate aphrodite with the empress card??? Like? It might be because a “mother figure” isnt something I see in a positive light and that I see aphrodite as more of a patron than a mother. I associate her with the Lovers card.
The Lovers card represents choice and relationships. The Empress card represents maternal influence and new opportunities. While their meanings mean different things to me, with the Lovers card indicating choice born of free will in opposition to the devil card, or the empress card indicating new paths to take. Aphrodite is a complex figure.
I dont view her as a nurturing maternal figure. She’s cruel and without mercy. She can be kind and loving but for as long as I have been devoting my work and my reverance to her I can not say I have found her to emulate the maternal figures in my life. The empress card represents maternal bonds, and the bonds I have with my own mother are painful and complicated. It is a relationship born out of bondage. I was not given a choice of whom my matron is.
(All of this is just how I associate the cards. I have been doing plenty of deity readings with my makeshift tarot and she just. Keeps. Speaking to me. She wont let this idea leave my head. So im posting in an effort to get it off my chest.)
