The Empress

The Empress is the third card in the Major Arcana, numbered as card III. It features a pregnant woman holding a baby in a gas mask.

Keywords

 * Nurturing
 * Natural

Booklet Text
The Empress depicts a pregnant woman holding her other, already born child. Notice how the baby is still alive. Because she didn’t kill it or anything. The keywords here are Nurturing and Natural. She is very down to earth. This card hints at nurturing the things you care about so they can grow. You have to be there for the things you love or they will be neglected and probably die. Like if you have a pet rabbit that you never feed, it will just end up starving to death and you will no longer have a pet rabbit. Some people don’t know that. So see your things through to completion. The other side of this is that at times you have to be able to let those things of yours breathe and learn and live. If you smother something, it cannot thrive adequately, which is basically the same thing as strangling it with a shoestring or something similar.

Adjacent Cards

 * High Priestess
 * The Emperor