The Empress

The Empress is trump III: the crowned mother in a field of wheat, pregnant, at ease, surrounded by growing things. She is abundance, beauty, love, and the creative power of nature. The Golden Dawn gives her to Venus.

Uses

• Abundance and growth
• Love and self-love
• Fertility of body or of ideas
• Beauty and pleasure

Trump

III

Attribution

Venus ♀︎

Hebrew letter

Daleth ד (door)

Path

14th, Chokmah to Binah

Upright

Abundance, nurturing, fertility, beauty, nature

Reversed

Creative block, dependence, smothering, neglect of self

Key symbols

The wheat field, the Venus symbol on her shield, the crown of twelve stars, the flowing stream

Working with it

On a Friday, set the Empress beside fresh flowers or a bowl of fruit. Spend ten minutes making something beautiful with your hands: a meal, an arrangement, a drawing. The Empress is honored by enjoyment, not by austerity.