Tarot Card of the Day – July 22, 2009: The Empress

Deck: Universal Waite Tarot

I saw my mother yesterday for the first time in one-and-a-half years. After various setbacks over this course of time, the time was finally right. Sure we had not seen each other and had only spoken intermittently during this period. But, the love had never stopped. She is my mother and I, her daughter. By will of nature, nothing can change that and by will of nurture, she raised me well and I have become who I am today based on these experiences.

When I drew The Empress card last night, I had shuffled the deck for quite some time. I divided the deck into three smaller decks and selected a card from the middle one. My intent was to do a free association exercise for the drawn card for my Tarot Card of the Day post.  more...

This is my initial interpretation of The Magician Tarot card.

Tarot Deck: Universal Waite Tarot

Observations:

The Magician is holding a wand, symbolic of fire, intuition and urge–up to the sky or the heavens–and a vine of roses–symbolic of passion. He points his other hand down towards the ground, or underworld, symbolic of that which is outside of the mortal world, divination and duality. Is he pointing at the querent or the reader?

There is a halo with the lemniscate–the symbol of a figure eight–over his head, a metaphor for infinity. He is wearing a white gown with a red shawl/robe that is draped over his body. White and red are balanced colors–white symbolic of femininity and purity–red symbolic of masculinity and passion. Is the red robe made of the same red cloth from The Fool’s satchel/bag? The Magician is wearing a belt that is a purple snake–the Ouroboros–eating itself, symbolizing eternity; the snake is one.  more...