‘A creation; whether that be a project, a painting, a baby, a life, a new opportunity, abundance, care, nurturing an existing creation, pregnancy or love.’
Femininity, nurturing, fertility, abundance. A life-giver, a creator, a source from which life has sprung. The desire within every living thing to grow or flourish. It represents the world bringing you forth, asking you to simply be. The pleasure principle. Care. Self-care, care for others. Compassion. Kindness. Making sure your needs are met, knowing your needs, not holding shame for them, voicing them; meeting the needs of others.
The careful creation of safe spaces. Creating nourishing space. Bringing people together and encouraging them to together. Radical acceptance, radical self-acceptance, the willingness to be in your own skin and allow others the same bliss. The Divine Mother says, ‘I am here and I love myself. I belong. There is space for me. There is space for you, too.’
The Empress card can be very triggering in that not all beings experienced safety and unconditional love. Narcissism runs rampant on the planet, a disease spreading further by the day, sinking its claws into more and more women; more fathers. We all deserve to feel loved, it’s not something we have to ‘earn’. The Empress represents meeting your own needs, and receiving care from others. This is not a person who only cares for others and neglects their own self. Neither is this a person who is focused only on their own needs.
The Empress correlates to Venus; the planet of love, the concept of love and its overall complexity and depth as a subject.
“Love. The highest vibration on Earth. The one thing most souls on this planet long for, but complain of having been deprived of. The force that fuels peace, the substance behind passion, the very thing fuelling your being to move forward. The reason that billions of us wake up in the morning, the reason tears form and fall, the medication which alleviates most pains. The thing that hopefully your Mother gave you upon first entering this world, a precious precious thing that many don’t even harbour, and may never experience. A patient thing. A thing free from all devious intent and evil. Greek philosopher Plato once said, "Every heart sings a song incomplete until another heart whispers back.” This reflects that most souls upon incarnating on Earth deeply desire to experience being loved by another, unconditionally, even if just momentarily. It’s a lonely realm if you wander around in isolation for what would feel like forever, your voice would just echo for eternity.
This realm would be hollow, with nobody to express your thoughts and feelings to, nobody to teach, nobody to see, no voice to hear but your own, none to learn from, none to observe, none to look up to and none to eventually adore with your whole heart, your whole being. This world would be empty without each other. There are many beings and characters that you may not like on this Earth, millions you may not look up to, or agree with. There are those you’ll feel sorry for, those you’ll despise. Those who will cause and intend you harm, attempt to manipulate and use you and that’s why the pull or draw for unconditional love is that much stronger in most of us, because we can tell that this world is full of cold and callous hands, strange hardened hearts. We feel safer in the softness and protection of love.” - Ava
“Love coats and insulates things with light, with a vibrant frequency of the highest order. To love somebody is to coat them with light, to protect them and to be loved is to be coated in the most purity that another being can possibly offer.” - Ava Alexis (Psychic Medium & Astrologer)