03-The Empress – Reversed Mage Deck

Your Chosen Card – The Dark Queen Reversed Mage 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)

3. The Empress: Fertile Goddess Of The Birth Canal

When The Dark Queen is reversed you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If The Dark Queen is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is The Dark Queen 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 Dark Queen using cards from the Mage 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: For general readings: what issues do I need to focus on in my life at this time?

Tarot Books

Complete Book of Tarot: Card 6, obstacles and hidden issues: The Empress. The querent thought that the Empress probably referred to his wife, who was deeply distressed about their son’s depressed mood and the risk of suicide. He felt a need to be emotionally available to both his depressed son and his wife because of her distraught state of mind.

Elements of the Psychic World: A palmist first looks at the shape of a person’s hand, as the shape is thought to reveal artistic or physical talents. The left hand is said to reveal destiny at birth; the right hand is a map of how to carry out that destiny successfully. If a person is left-handed the roles of the hands are reversed. The

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Development for Beginners: According to Edward, ‘[The psychic] told me things that there is no way she could have known. And the first part of the reading was that this was the path that I was supposed to be on and that I was supposed to be a teacher and help people and – I thought she was nuts.’