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An old woman sits on a giant goose with a golden egg in the background. She has a basket of eggs in her lap. Eggs - Fertility - abundant fertility. The golden egg. According to the book, the legend of the golden egg goes back to ancient Egypt where Hathor "laid the golden egg of the Sun, another way of saying that she gave birth to Ra, the Sun God." Eggs always have associations with birth and beginnings and fertility. The Easter egg was a symbol of the celebration of spring & fertility. Spring is new births, beginnings and joy.

Mother Goose is the repository of the rhymes and stories we grew up with. It reminds us of childhood wonder and fun. The book says: "Mother Goose brings us rhyme and riddle, and the musical, humorous, and profound secrets that live within a child's heart. In a sense, she is a 'birther' of our essential mental consciousness (the radiant light of the Sun) and our feelings and emotions (the reflected light of the Moon).

"Mother Goose as The Empress in Inner Child Cards offers us unity with the entire world and all the kingdoms of nature. She stimulates our love for flowerws, herbs, trees, birds, animals, rocks, precious stones, and the soil itself. We are one with her, we are one with the life force of the cosmos."

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