I adore this Empress, with her unending love symbolized by the large careen of it she is carrying around with her. I like to imagine she is sprinkling a bit of it wherever she goes.
The green palette of this image is deeply soothing to me, verdant growth guided by loving hands.
I also adore her earthy beauty, reminiscent of her ties to Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. It has long been my belief that a woman often flowers under the warmth of a great love. Someone comes along and thinks her beautiful, and so she becomes ever more beautiful. My children think I am lovely, and so I am. My honey adores me, and so I am adorable. This is a lovely cycle, and one that I wish for every woman whose sparkling eyes may fall upon this.
My shadow card for the day is the Hermit, here portrayed in my eyes as a sweet, sad creature. She almost seems to me the Empress displaced, stripped of her calming, soothing home and left alone to wither on a lonely pedestal. Her beauty has became tattered, like her soul, and the lush garden she once lived in has become a lonely desert.
It's immeasurably sad to me.
For me, today, these cards remind me that I am the Empress, surrounded by love and light, and that anxiety and depression lie, telling me the people who love me best don't at all. I dwell in that lively garden, and not the wind blown sands, and whenever I do find myself there, return is as simple as the touch of a small child's hand.
These cards are from the Heart Tarot by Maria Distefano for Lo Scarabeo.
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