Em'-pris ~ The female ruler of an empire (or another type of imperial realm) or the wife or widow of an emperor.

• Number: III, 3
• Hebrew Letter: Daleth (or Dalet)
• Color: Emerald Green
• Element: Earth
• Chakra: Root 
• Humor: Black Bile
• Temperament: Melancholic
• Sense: Smell

Keywords

Love, beauty, fertility, creativity, growth, harmony, abundance, and, when reversed, problems with pregnancy/motherhood or insecurity​

The Lesson of the Tarot Empress is Nurturance

The Fool meets, accepts, and appreciates the loving, nurturing, feminine aspect of the personality.

Personality (Strengths & Weaknesses)

The Melancholic temperament is associated with the Red Aura Color Personality (Earth).

The Tarot Empress Traditional Meanings

Your station and potential is fulfilled. You express your creative instincts so beautifully. How wonderful it is to be gifted with such abundance. Love, effort, and persistence have paid off. Life’s truest gifts of family, health, and material gain are a blessing in their own right.

You are and will always be the wife of your husband's dreams, a teacher of love, mother or nurturer of children, and perhaps part spell caster when it comes to the bewitchment you can place on your mate's heart. As a creature of comfort, part of your charisma is your ability to make everything beautiful in the material world.

Feeling alone in the absence of a mate, worries concerning fertility and futility, and concerns over the foundations of financial and material security may leave you shaken and insecure. These thoughts threaten you most when you doubt that you are loved but when you know you are loved your creativity and loving light shine the brightest.

The Tarot Empress Biblical Meaning

Regardless of her anxieties, the Tarot Empress carries God in her heart and never forgets to offer thanks to God for every abundance in her life, no matter how small. The Empress prays to be a blessing to others. She knows that blessings are to be shared on earth and are a measure of heavenly reward. But, she also knows without the flame of thankfulness in her heart and a passion to nurture others, she and those she nurtures would be left in the shadows. Some say the Tarot Empress is Mother Nature, the marriage between God the Mother (feminine) and God the Father (masculine). Others say she is the feminine side of Jesus, the man who loved unconditionally and taught others to do the same.

The Tarot Empress in Health Readings

Health issues could include the skin, the buttocks, problems with water retention or dehydration. fertility or pregnancy, STDs, such as Herpes Simplex Virus, or weight gain. Most of the Empress's problems stem from making poor decisions. However, love conquers just about all (on every level) where the Empress is concerned. 

Tarot Meditation

In what ways can you express creativity or attract more abundance into your life?

Food Remedies

The Empress doesn't do well with spicy or processed foods. Stale, rancid or astringent foods, soy, too many nuts (especially peanuts) and beans, nightshades, especially tomatoes, and eggplant, will bother the Melancholic temperament. The Melancholic fairs better with diets containing meat.

Melancholic (Red): See Raising Red & Melancholic Temperament Energy Levels

Choosing Herb & Essential Oils

Basil, benzoin, black pepper, cedarwood, cinnamon, red clover, eucalyptus, frankincense, geranium, holy basil, lavender, lemon, myrrh, oak moss, orange, patchouli, peppermint, rose hips, rose absolute, rose otto, rosemary, rosewood, sage, sandalwood, turmeric, vanilla, vetiver, and violet leaf.

Stones & Crystals

Red garnet, red ruby, red jasper, red-brown tiger's eye, red coral, hematite, black onyx, obsidian, bloodstone, smokey quartz, jet, or a plain black pebble

NOTE: The John W. Waterhouse painting at the top of this page has been revised (breasts grafittied) to avoid offending anyone.