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The Empress

Major arcana · III

On the card

A crowned figure reclines on cushions in a field of ripe wheat, a shield bearing the sign of Venus beside her and a wood behind.

Upright

Abundance
Tending
Senses

Long associated with growth that is tended rather than forced. It asks what in your life is actually being fed, as opposed to what you keep meaning to feed.

Reversed

Depletion
Smothering
Neglect

Reversed, the traditional reading turns to care that has gone out of balance — given past your own reserves, or withheld from something that has been waiting a while.

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About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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