Description
A woman sits on the petals of a gigantic white daisy in a surreal field of daisies. On the horizon they fade into a clear daytime sky inhabited by lots of white clouds and a very bright, large moon. The Empress herself is in contrast with the cool background, her skin colored in rich hues of red and yellow and surrounded by a tight (held close to the body, not open and sharing) yellow aura. Her lower body slowly fades into a more earthly looking daisy field. It has realistic blacks and shadows unlike the first field and life in the form of pollen collecting bees. One of the bees has escaped the woman by flying out of her spinning vortex of a heart, leaving behind a trail of glowing empress-stuff.

Crowning her head is a ring of little golden globules, or maybe little suns to balance the sky-moon?

She emanates faint, shadowy spirals and she seems to hold her body in a way to facilitate their release.

Response
I find this card to be life affirming, fresh, new, cyclic and life creating but not necessarily a card with a mother or nurturing feel. She seems to produce beautiful things yet take no responsibility or joy from her children, only a joy of creating them. She wears rings but none of them are wedding rings. Also I notice that she does not have any of the physical attributes of a pregnant woman, at all. Almost the opposite. I would have to say that this particular Empress has no concern for being royalty, in fact does not even concern herself with others at all, she just creates life and then releases it to it's own destiny.

The book says:

Empress, Queen of May, to you we owe the inspired abundance of life. You miraculously generate the biological festival that distinguishes our earthly existence. You are the primal productivity, the boundless generosity inherent in our garden planet's special purpose of feeding and inspiring the Universe.

Peace y'all  :)

Marie
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