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The Emperor represents authority figures, laws and agreements, social order and often one’s father. He represents the rules and regulations that allow us to live safely in a community. The fabric of society would disintegrate into chaos without them.
Play by the rules or suffer the consequences is one of the messages of this [...]

The Tower represents breakthrough which is the second Alehcmic stage - dissolution. The lightning, or insight, threatens to destroy the Tower, which is really your created facade or persona. The lightning struck Tower is your ego, or lower self going up in flames to allow the Phoenix of your higher self to rise [...]

The word Temperance is derived from the latin word ‘temperare’ which means to mix or combine. The angel on the Rider-Waite Temperance card is shown pouring and combining the spiritual and the physical between two Cups. He has one foot on the land and one foot on the water, showing both mastery of [...]

The Hierophant was the name given to the High Priest of the Greek Elusian mysteries. The Hierophant also has connections to occult initiations. Occult simply means “secret”. There is nothing untoward or evil about the word. Anything you want to keep hidden from other people could be considered occult.
Historically, the Hierophant [...]

The High Priestess is Isis seated on her throne, representing sovereignty over the physical plane. She is flanked by the black and white pillars which represent Severity and Mercy. Too much severity is cruelty and too much mercy is weakness. We strive for the ‘middle pillar’, which is the correct balance of [...]

The Lesson of the Magician is that you are the Creator of your own experiences.
The Magician represents a union of opposites and a connection between Spirit and earthly existence. The Fool has unpacked his bag and become the Magician.
Life is full of possibilities and the Magician represents turning potential into something tangible and [...]

The Fool’s element is Air and its Hebrew letter is Aleph, which means ‘ox’. You could think of this as the air that aerates the soil as it is ploughed by the ox, allowing life to bloom. Recently, the unpredictable planet Uranus has come to be linked with this card.
The Fool is your [...]

The Sun is probably the most positive and optimistic card in the deck. It’s appearance lifts the energy of the whole reading and shows that even if things have been difficult to date, things are about to take a turn for the better.
In the solar system, the Sun is the source of Light and [...]

The Star is the ‘light face’ of the Goddess and The Moon is the ‘dark face’.  In The Star, blessings and enlightenment are Her gifts.  In The Moon, Her gifts are harsh but mark the commencement of a phase of initiation, or enlightenment. 
The Moon’s gifts involve confronting our deeply held pain and fear.  She [...]

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The Empress is the fourth card of the Major Arcana, although it is numbered 3.  (Remember The Fool is the first card and is numbered 0).
The Empress is linked to the The High Priestess but unlike the HPS, the Empress is a card of activity and movement. The basic meaning of [...]