03-The Empress – Reversed Golden Deck

Your Chosen Card – The Empress Reversed Golden Deck

When reversed, the Empress suggests that you may be failing to care for the natural resources that have been entrusted to you. Perhaps you have been neglecting your body or squandering the abundance in your life. Alternatively, you may be going through a period of infertility, either literally or figuratively, in which it seems difficult to produce any type of offspring of either the physical or mental variety. A creative idea may be stuck in its birth canal. The Empress is connected with marriage, and the reversed card may signify difficulty with wedding plans or a delay in starting a family.

Keywords Reversed: Overindulgence, temptation, sex without love, avarice, infertility, indolence, withholding affection, refusal to cultivate one’s garden, miscarriage, menopause, unwanted pregnancy, delay in fulfilling a desire, deciding not to have children, failure to care for one’s offspring, squandering natural resources.

Key III: The Empress
Myths/Archetypes: Demeter. Mother Nature. The Earth Goddess. The Great Mother. The Caregiver. Gaia. Mary Magdalene. Queen of Queens. The Garden of Eden.
Astrology: Venus, goddess of love and beauty. (Venus rules Taurus and Libra)
Numerology: 3 (Em-press) ~ 1 + 2 (Hanged Man) ~ 2 + 1 (The World)

Mathers: Action, plan, undertaking, movement in a matter, initiative.

When The Empress is reversed you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If The Empress is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is The Empress is trying to tell you.  If you had a particular issue in  mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.

This chosen card is part of your reversed card reading for The Empress using cards from the Golden Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.


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Complete Book of Tarot
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Complete Book of Tarot: The fantastical nature of such stories prompted me to become a sceptic at a young age. In each successive grade in Catholic school, we studied the Baltimore Catechism with its images of white milk in glass bottles being stained with ‘evil’ black spots every time we sinned. The white milk represented our immortal souls and the black spots all the bad things we had done. The only way to remove these evil spots was to pray and do penance. The alternative was to burn eternally in the fires of hell. Each year the catechism began with the same questions and answers, which we had to memorize verbatim:

Tarot Books

Complete Book of Tarot: Understanding—the Great Mother. Binah is associated with the planet Saturn. The tarot cards related to the number three are the Empress (III), the Hanged Man (XII, 1 + 2 = 3), the Universe (XXI, 2 + 1 = 3), and all pip cards numbered three.

Reversed Cards: Could there be any doubt that Venus is the ruling planet of the Empress? Of course not, for she is love manifest. What she creates comes straight from her heart; she taps into the power of Venus, the planet of true love, beauty, and power and allows it to flow through her in all its glory. The Empress is a vessel through which Venus manifests in the physical world. But here in the retrograde aspect, Venus is taking some downtime, and so should you. Being Empress is demanding and can take its toll. Yet even here in the retrograde aspect, her decisions are based on love, love for herself and her well-being.

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Reversed Cards: Could there be any doubt that Venus is the ruling planet of the Empress? Of course not, for she is love manifest. What she creates comes straight from her heart; she taps into the power of Venus, the planet of true love, beauty, and power and allows it to flow through her in all its glory. The Empress is a vessel through which Venus manifests in the physical world. But here in the retrograde aspect, Venus is taking some downtime, and so should you. Being Empress is demanding and can take its toll. Yet even here in the retrograde aspect, her decisions are based on love, love for herself and her well-being.