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Empress Card: What is the Feminine about?

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.