Just as the Empress is a symbol of rich abundance, so the threes all have the feeling of culmination and saturation about them. In the 3 of Wands, you can often feel the strength of will drawing the desired event towards the character in the card. Whatever has been determined is just about to burst forth (just as the Empress is often shown as being very, very pregnant). The 3 of Cups shows the joy of relationships overflowing into spontaneous celebration. The 3 of Swords depicts the despair and unbalance that occurs when the mind is unable to control and dictate everything. The 3 of Pentacles illustrates the manifestation of a project, the fruit that is born

Although this card is called the Empress, we interpret it more as a Great Mother or Mother Nature rather than any sort of political ruler. There is little about this card that brings to mind human laws or social rules. Instead, this is a card of lush richness. Abundance. The glories of nature. These things are the results of the actions and energy of this card. The Empress, as the Great Mother, speaks of creation more than anything. The act of creation includes nurturing and caring for that which is created. The card is also one of beauty and love. Or perhaps more specifically about the way love beautifies one’s world. While a rampant and abundant garden can be a thing of

The High Priestess is usually shown sitting between two pillars, in a portal between worlds. If you internalize her wisdom, you move from one world into another. On a more mundane level, so it is with the Twos. They show a time of balance or limbo, before a choice is made (or in the case of the Cups, just as the choice is being made). At the time of the Twos, there are two possible futures and choice to be made. Once the choice is made, then one of the possible futures is eliminated. With the High Priestess, once you admit that knowledge, whatever it is, that lies within you, you are initiated into another world. The old one is gone and you can never go back to it as you will never be the

Today we call her the High Priestess, and she is one of the most favored cards amongst tarot readers. The High Priestess represents what we often call “other ways of knowing.” That is, she employs methods that are not logical or rational. Instead, she is a practitioner of the intuitive and psychic arts. While the Magician illustrates the external expression of our magical and creative abilities by manifesting our will in the world, the High Priestess illustrates an inner connection with the Universe and a different sort of magic. She is often an enigmatic card, sometimes frustrating, because we often say of her that she “knows but doesn’t tell.” She keeps silent. She represents