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Empress Card: What is the Feminine about?
Happy Mother’s Day!
The next session of Psychic Sundays on May 11th is a fun way to connect with your mom while learning a fun form of divination: Charm Casting.
Bring a friend or your mom and each of you can use the code 2FORCLASS for a dual discount!
Free bag of charms if you join in-person!
Sign up for the Charms Class this weekend!
Today, let’s talk about all things Maternal with the Empress Card.
When I was traveling in my late 20’s, a wise woman helped me understand that my feminine self was shadowed by my masculine.
I grew up in a neighborhood full of boys, and I loved being included as one of them. We rode bikes and did trick endo’s by shoving our foot in the front tire.
I came home from ballgames, WWF mockups, skateboarding, and kick the bucket covered in bruises, concrete scrapes, and knowing all the worst insults an elementary kid could dare.
When I started the Thundercats club in a neighbor’s side yard, I insisted that I be Lion-O, and was verbally battled with to accept being Cheetara. She wasn’t the leader though, and I was the one who started the club. Me.
I already saw the feminine as marginalized and lesser, and so I valued my masculine traits more.
Now a young adult woman, I felt inspired to ponder on what it even means to be feminine. This in turn informed my concept of the Empress card in my tarot deck.
First, consider what words come to mind when you think about the essence of feminine energy.
The Empress is inherently about creative power. The female body contains the ultimate resource of creating life. Thus our queen sits in the center of a meadow of wheat and trees with a flowery dress and a spring of water flowing to her feet.
Motherhood in it’s healthiest story is about nurturing life into full bloom. It’s often a story of sacrifice and protection. A mom in the ideal is both strong and compassionate.
What nature do you assign to the ideal maternal?
How did your own mom form this idea, or counter it?
Let’s then consider the Empress card Reversed. What are the shadows of the mother spirit? (You can’t write “Smother” without it.)
What about those of us who choose not to bear children? Where do they hold maternal energy?
I didn’t have kids, but I have managed a home with multiple rooms for 15 years, and it has been a journey into learning how I ‘mom’ my housemates. Sometimes I am restrictive and assert my power to insist that chores are done. Other times I am flexible and forgiving, setting the rules aside as I witness them struggle through a challenge. There’s balance and nuance in my own feminine spirit, it seems.
Working in a female-centric field has taught me a lot about this flavor of being as well. I find that tarot readers are incredibly collaborative and community-focused. People in this traditionally feminine line of work are empathic and curious and service-oriented.
Men can also be more classically feminine. My ex-boyfriend would cry at movies more than me. I love that he allowed himself to express emotions freely, and it actually gave me room to hold him in a maternal way at times.
It’s not like I had to balance his feminine by being more masculine. We both brought our own masculine and feminine at times that suited us. We still do now as friends. We can all hold masculine and feminine energies simultaneously.
Watching beloved transwomen in my life blossom into their own feminine has informed me so much on how this essence expresses herself.
Each of these sisters softened into their open-hearts and became enamored of beauty and more in awe of the glory of nature during their journeys. It has been an honor and a joy to witness.
Who in your life displays the feminine in a way that moves your heart or shifts your beliefs about what this archetype entails?
I could obviously talk endlessly about this. Let’s wrap it up and send love to all the Mom’s in your life who show up with the archetype that serves your heart the best.
I want to thank my mom for being her authentic self and showing me the Empress Card in her own ways. From sweet back scratches with German songs before bed, to cajoling me into icy glacial lake swims, she brings a unique mix of nurturing and empowerment. She may not admit to it, but she’s a true feminist.
Most of all, I want to thank my Mom and Dad for letting me be one of the boys as a kid. It made me into being a better woman.
Learn from feminine experts with this fun series of workshops…
Psychic 2nd Sundays with Portlandia Fortune Tellers Experts
Join us for a 2-hour workshop from 4pm to 6pm PST on the 2nd Sunday of each month through June:
May 11th: Lynda: Charms Divination (In-Person and Online)
June 8th: Heather: 4 Pillars of Astrology (In-Person and Online
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In-person sessions will take place in Southeast Portland
Want to nurture a graduating student in your life? Hire a tarot or palm reader with Portlandia Fortune Tellers. We offer both in-person entertainment in the Portland and Salem areas and online experiences.
Our team of readers understand how to keep things lighthearted and work with young people in a professional way that brightens them with thoughts of their future potential. Treat your grads to a memorable experience as they set off on a new adventure!
Enliven your own internal high priestess wisdom with an intuition coaching session with me.
Do some self-care in a feminine art with a personal tarot reading.
Care for your friends by listening in on each other’s readings in a Tarot Together session.
Be Your Own Best Mom,
Jenna Lynne Roberts
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