Major Arcana · 3
The Empressfor Virgo · Money and Wealth
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A figure sits in a luxurious chair in a field of tall grass. Embracing their own femininity and sexuality, they are able to enjoy the beauty around them as it unfolds
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This card represents the warmer/sensual aspects of femininity (and motherhood) whereas the High Priestess, the card before this, represents the more cool/mysterious aspects of womanhood. You have cultivated something wonderful through a connection to your inner divine and nature. Appreciate the beauty and passion that you attract
You are not attracting the beauty and passion you want. Perhaps you are impatient or perhaps you must connect more with nature or your own raw energy
The imagery (the crown, corn necklace and field) is a nod to depictions of Demeter, the greek goddess of the harvest (and mother to Persephone)
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The Empress for Virgo in Money and Wealth
The Analyst
Venus sits outside Virgo's usual Mercury register, so this one arrives as unfamiliar weather. Upright, this is happening out in the visible world, where other people can see it and respond to it.
When reading about money through a Virgo lens, the Empress card says that you feel like money is something you track precisely, a source of quiet anxiety (or control), and something you save rather than spend because you're not sure what it's for yet. This has either led to genuine financial stability and the ability to help others, or to a bank account that never feels full enough. You have not looked at your full financial picture all at once, and the not-looking costs more than the looking would. The Virgo blind spot in it is the feeling of being useless, or of having wasted time on something that didn't hold up.
In practice that can look like a change in circumstance rather than an amount, or what money is for shifting. Whatever form it takes, it is happening in the visible world where other people can see it.
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