The Empress in 6 Minutes

The Empress Upright:
This is Motherhood. Love incarnate. The natural world, voluptuous sensual pure feeling. Loving without conditions, strings, or agenda. Creative flow, which can be unorganized (organization and order is for another time). An emotional leader. Hosting/entertaining as a high art form. Unity between mental, emotional and physical health. Ease. Comfort. Fruitful. Fertile. Projects blooming under your tutelage. Comfort in your own skin. Caring for all in your realm.

Best Course of Action:
Love. Love yourself as you are, not as you wish yourself to be. Love others as they are. Create, worrying about outcomes or editing later. Practice emotional generosity. Entertain, harvest, enjoy the natural world. Experience physical, pleasures of the senses as a focus and healthy act. Choose emotional health. Choose love. Choose nurturing behaviors. Nurture others. Trust. Connect with family, friends, people of all ages. Having all that you need. Know that you and your resources are plenty, abundant, enough. Throw a party or get together with friends. Decorate your space.

The Empress Reversed:
Expressing emotions in a negative or hurtful manner. Withholding of affection, especially as a weaponized act. Being wasteful. Emotional detachment. Self indulgence when restraint is needed. Feeling overwhelmed, a refusal to consider facts, overgiving to the point of depletion. Can be reacting with an over-intellectualized way to an emotionally fraught situation. Feeling creatively blocked. Over-mothering, smothering, especially as a way to avoid facing your own needs. Can be a smothering, needy, emotionally troubled or cold person in your life. Best Course:
Time to edit. If you help people too much, you may actually be hurting them. Detach. Simplify. Draw healthy boundaries. Get rid of clutter, both physical and emotional baggage. Understand you are only responsible for your own happiness, you cannot make others happy. Choose your yes/no carefully. Be thoughtful where you give your emotional energy. There may be some metaphorical weeds in the garden of your life, time to pull them up. It is okay to prudently withdraw support, especially if it is not being appreciated. Stop trying to be everything to everyone one. Might be time to employ a more logical approach.