Tarot Deck II - The Empress

  A tarot deck is an unusual item. Some are mere replica’s that belong to fortune tellers and con men, some provide a seeker with genuine answers. Either way, there is something about them that makes people… uncomfortable. It is said that the strongest decks are ones made by the one who plans to use it, designing each card based on what they believe best represents each archetype. The cards can be difficult, unruly. 

Their answers may be unclear, or seem like they have no bearing on the question asked of them. But the answers they give always become clear in time.

The Empress takes it's place as the fourth Major Arcana card. In this place it symbolizes the virtues of fertility, beauty, nature, abundance, divine sensuality, nurturing, and creativity, while upholding the tenants of insecurity, anxiety, overbearing, negligence, smothering, lack of growth, creative block, and the over-dependence on others. 

While the card is traditionally associated with maternal influence, the Empress it is not limited to this. At it's core, the Empress stands in opposition to the Emperor; freedom and spirituality to combat the sterile regulation of laws and unyielding power.