The Empress
Keywords for The Empress: abundance · nurturing · creativity.
Upright meaning
Upright, The Empress points to abundance, nurturing and creativity.
The Empress is one of the 22 Major Arcana, so when The Empress appears it usually marks a bigger chapter rather than a passing mood.
Reversed meaning
Reversed, The Empress can signal smothering, creative block or self-neglect; it rarely means the opposite, more that the energy of The Empress is blocked or overdone.
Love
In a love reading, The Empress suggests abundance between you, and reversed The Empress asks you to look honestly at smothering.
Career & Money
For work and money, The Empress favours creativity; if The Empress shows up reversed, check where self-neglect is costing you.