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III
THE EMPRESS
(Venus)

MEDITATION COLOR: Green.

HEBREW LETTER: Daleth, door, gate; especially the yoni as Gate of Life. Greek Delta is a triangle, with all it implies.

CARD NAME: Empress (a form of “emperor” specifically chosen to convey a feminine idea) from Latin imperatrix, imperare, “command.” The Indo-European root for “priest/priestess” has exactly the same spelling and sound as that for “emperor/empress,” though they are different words: per, which in this other form means, “to produce” or “to procure.”

ESOTERIC MEANING: The Luminous Consciousness. It is the substance of that speaking silence (or brilliant flame) that is the instructor in the Secret Foundations of Holiness and of their (stages of) preparation.

TREE of LIFE: Binah to Chokmah. (Links ‘Understanding’ and ‘Wisdom’; or Intuition with Infinite Will, Neshamah with Chiah; or ‘the Mother’ with ‘the Father,’ the stream of life flowing into the matrix-womb of its material manifestation. Creative force operating in the field of unconsciousness.)

ESOTERIC TITLE: The Daughter of the Mighty Ones

TANTRIC & ALCHEMICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Alchemical Salt (Tamas).

DIVINATION: Love, beauty, happiness, pleasure, sensuousness, fruitfulness, success, completion, graciousness, elegance, friendship, gentleness, delight. But with very bad dignity, it means luxury, idleness, debauchery, dissipation.

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]]>https://thelema.org/forum/topic/16416/september-23-25-2011-iii-the-empressRSS for NodeSat, 11 Jul 2026 14:30:21 GMTFri, 23 Sep 2011 12:24:31 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to September 23-25, 2011: III - The Empress on Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:13:56 GMT]]>Good one! I enjoyed reading your notes!

]]>https://thelema.org/forum/post/86000https://thelema.org/forum/post/86000Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:13:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to September 23-25, 2011: III - The Empress on Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:22:29 GMT]]>Hey guys.

I had a lot of fun with this card and I really got what it means for a man to get in touch with his "feminine side" through working with it.

Background: The wilderness, or more appropriately Nature and the outdoors.

The door: something we walk through to get from one area to another and everything that implies.

Light flowing into the portal: the unintelligible becoming intelligible

glowing: the Empress is pregnant. I hear people tell pregnant women they are glowing all of the time.

birds: one is red and one is white. I think the white bird is female and the red bird is male and I think the two birds express the ratio of feminine to masculine energy of this card.

the pillars with the waxing and waning moons: waxing moon - moving from darkness to allow light to be reflected

waning moon - the light has been reflected & now we return to receive more

pink shirt with bees & dominoes- The Empress is clothed in works of love. Everything she does is an expression of Love.

babe in the womb - an idea from the infinite will that is incubating in the womb of the subconscious

pelican feeding her chics - the sharing of oneself to those that are in need of nurturing and nourishment

fish in the water - the life residing at the deepest level of the subconscious mind

fleur de lis - indicative of the active feminine power

]]>https://thelema.org/forum/post/85997https://thelema.org/forum/post/85997Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:22:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to September 23-25, 2011: III - The Empress on Sun, 25 Sep 2011 04:56:16 GMT]]>Meditation on Empress

*I dive into the green stream and swim to the throne. The water is caressing my body.
I sit at the throne. I am crowned by my womanhood.
I speak the language of the birds.
I know the secret.
The power of the eagle shields and protects me.
I am a guardian of the pelican mother and her babies.
Eagle is the power, the might and freedom, raising above weakness and slavery.
Pelican is the innocence , the unconditional love, creation and birth.
She is feeding the babies mouth-to-mouth, giving them the soul of breath and the communion of blood
and imbuing them with the power of their father.
The lotus in my hand is swirling, i forgive and forget the pain of birth as i am letting the past go and turning to the future.
*
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