Empress meaning in a reading of Tarot

"Motherhood, nurturing, caring action. Creativity. Giving.

Reversed: Non-accomplishment due to a lack of decision."

In the tarot the Empress has a strong message dealing with the amount of protection and kind of attention you are giving to the issue.

It is usually concerning something created, being created or about to be.

Strong female indicator and if there isn't a woman involved with the reading it has to do with either the way you're handling something or your level of femininity in the way

you're handling it is part, if not all of the issue.

You can look at the words; Motherhood, nurturing, caring action, creativity, giving, and get a good idea but there is always a general overview of what the card has to do with

what was asked.

If I asked a question about a party's effects if I was considering planning one and this card came up. Well it would be time to party.

If I was checking my kids radical behavior and it came up I would get him in for a check up or maybe even spoil him a little and talk to him about it (another check up).

This is the gardener tending the plants. Watching over their well being and protecting them from danger or injury.

Becoming familiar with the basics of the Empress is a good start, but it goes deeper than that because as you begin to find out what each card's differences are, each of those

differences relate to your personal life somehow, probably more than the similarities.

Truce, dominion, abundance each have a meaning and although we see these meanings similarly, our feelings are each unique when we think about those three things.

So it boils down to your feelings about the card and developing those feelings, through study and practice, to the point that you can draw any card and in a second, say it's name.

The rest comes more automatically after the basic names are understood.

The names of these cards are; love, gain, debauch, defeat, completion, truce, interference, happiness, change, victory, ruin, pleasure, prudence, power, strength, virtue, peace,

success, luxury, futility, works, cruelty, valor, dominion, satiety, disappointment, science, swiftness, abundance, worry, wealth, oppression, sorrow, strife, failure, indolence.

Each of these cards relates to a trump card in a regular deck.

The kings, queens and jacks relate as people, commonly. Earth being the darkest (hair, skin and eye color) and fire being the lightest with water and air in between.

King or queen being the oldest and prince (jack) or princess being the younger. This is how the cards are designated to people and their appearances.

Why is this lesson placed here? Because it is a part of knowing what reading (tarot) actually is and how it works.

Whether or not you actually do it isn't as important as that you are aware of how it is done.

I think your amount of awareness is equitable to your amount of illumination.