TFA 51: THE EMPRESS (III)
Mother of the world
The TAROT FOR ARTISTS project began in the spring of 2021. This is number 51 in a series of 78.
QUICK HITS
The Great Mother / Fecundity / Creative Principle / Artistic Expression / Aesthetic Elevation / Abundant Energy / Blooms / Fruit / Reward / Pregnancy / Birth / Three Is the Magic Number / Triangulation / Reproduction / Procreation / Beginnings of Material Form / Proliferation / Dynamic Personality / Female Power / Singing Wheat / Garden of Venus / Beauty / Self-Awareness / Fertility / Midsummer Dream / Public Activity / Community Engagement / Vision / Natural World / Creator / Earliest Goddess Archetype / Sensuality / Gentle Strength / Increase in Love Current / Recumbent Queen / Gifts of the Earth / Gratitude / Wealth / Generative Receptivity / Action Sparked by Desire / Emotion / Sexual Connection / Intuitive Knowledge / Embodiment / Passionate Life Force / Harmonic Synthesis / Continuous Renewal / Transformation / Time of Pleasure / Female Sovereignty / Tremendous Potential / Burst of Inspiration / Balance of Intake and Output / Art as Process / Revelation of Hidden Talents / Expansion / Birds & Bees / Adolescent Intensity / Infinite Variety / Biodiversity / Fluid Element / Lotus With Roots in the Mud, Stem Rising Through Water & Head Open to Sun / Gate of Heaven / Breath of Spring / Style as Transmission of New Feelings / Lushness / Seduction / Regeneration of the Body / Growth / Relationship / Fulfilled Prophesy / Cycle of Time / Trinities / Force of the Imagination / Anima / Door / The Formula Is Love /
THE IMAGE
She is fluid and well-dressed and crowned with stars.
THE STORY
The symbol of Venus has been said to be a hand mirror. THE EMPRESS signals deep self-awareness, a new level of consciousness. She is — unlike unlucky Narcissus — able to recognize her own reflection. THE EMPRESS sees herself. THE EMPRESS knows herself. THE EMPRESS is her own body of knowledge. THE EMPRESS is generous, and she is generative. She gives and is never depleted. Her power, though often under assault in the world, is infinitely stronger than any who seek to contain or control her. THE EMPRESS swallows empires. She births and rebirths the universe in a continuous cycle of convulsive beauty. When THE EMPRESS arrives, she offers the gift of expansive, passionate, creative energy. Flow with her and be filled with her love. You will change your life.
QUESTION
What beauty are you prepared to birth?
ACTIONS
Pay attention to how the project you have been working on for some time now is suddenly finding its form. Tend to your vision of this work. Tend to your life, tend to your work. Find a new rhythm that is a deep and true rhythm. Allow yourself to ride the river that runs in only one direction: toward the sea that you reach at the end of your ride. Be in your body. Be in the world and feel everything through your body. Feel everything that is alive. Feel that everything is alive. Feed it, feed it all.
THE READING
Fifty-one reduces to six, which recalls THE LOVER (VI). This is a calling forth, a time to step up and to give all the life you have to give to the moment in which you are. Here. Beauty is the way — fierce, autonomous, passionate, and transformative beauty.