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- Card of the Day for January 12 - The Empress [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/t/69b7dea77a60a389
- Questions for Reflection - The Empress [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/t/45d52ed6688a5e53
- The History of the Empress Card [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/t/5c10344e959ccd5b
- Angel Paths for January 12 - The Empress [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/t/4fb04f6badd837a0
- Thursday January 12, 2012: Reference.com On This Day [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/t/994ae6aaab179354
- A.Word.A.Day--autologous [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/t/207585416514f561
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Topic: Card of the Day for January 12 - The Empress
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From: msesheta <msesheta@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 12 09:47AM -0500
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/msg/27e2bcfcf061ada
THE EMPRESS – 3
Attribution - Venus (rules Taurus and Libra; exalted in Pisces)
Represented by the 3, the Empress connects spirit to body, which
brings forth creation and new life. She is the trinity of spirit over
matter and then manifestation.
Rider-Waite Imagery
The Empress sits on her cushioned covered throne. She is blond which
represents that she is clear minded and in the present moment. Not
looking back at the past or towards the future. She is crowned with 12
stars for the Zodiac. Around her neck are 7 pearls for the 7 planets
of the ancients. She represents the planet of Venus which is shown on
her cushions. The roses on her dress are also sacred to Venus and
mimic the shape of the symbol. The wheat & cypress trees are another
reference to Venus. The empress is the mother of all creation. She
loves everything unconditionally. She is mother nature and the
mothering feminine principle.
http://tarotjourney.net/tarot-cards/major-arcana/3-the-empress/
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)
Part I: The Veil and its Symbols
The Empress, who is sometimes represented with full face, while her
correspondence, the Emperor, is in profile. As there has been some
tendency to ascribe a symbolical significance to this distinction, it
seems desirable to say that it carries no inner meaning. The Empress
has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a
general sense with activity.
Part II: The Doctrine Behind the Veil
A stately figure, seated, having rich vestments and royal aspect, as
of a daughter of heaven and earth. Her diadem is of twelve stars,
gathered in a cluster. The symbol of Venus is on the shield which
rests near her. A field of corn is ripening in front of her, and
beyond there is a fall of water. The scepter which she bears is
surmounted by the globe of this world. She is the inferior Garden of
Eden, the Earthly Paradise, all that is symbolized by the visible
house of man. She is not Regina coeli, but she is still refugium
peccatorum, the fruitful mother of thousands. There are also certain
aspects in which she has been correctly described as desire and the
wings thereof, as the woman clothed with the sun, as Gloria Mundi and
the veil of the Sanctum Sanctorum; but she is not, I may add, the soul
that has attained wings, unless all the symbolism is counted up
another and unusual way. She is above all things universal fecundity
and the outer sense of the Word. This is obvious, because there is no
direct message which has been given to man like that which is borne by
woman; but she does not herself carry its interpretation.
In another order of ideas, the card of the Empress signifies the door
or gate by which an entrance is obtained into this life, as into the
Garden of Venus; and then the way which leads out therefrom, into that
which is beyond, is the secret known to the High Priestess: it is
communicated by her to the elect. Most old attributions of this card
are completely wrong on the symbolism–as, for example, its
identification with the Word, Divine Nature, the Triad, and so forth.
UPRIGHT
The Mother Card.
Earth Mother, nurturer, feminine influence, fertility.
Wealth and comfort.
Accomplishment.
Inner power.
Security.
Support.
Generosity, kindness.
Satisfaction.
Unconditional love.
Kisses, hugs and cuddles.
Inner and outer richness.
Wholeness.
Count your blessings.
A day to be good to yourself.
Mother, sister, wife.
Everything looks good on the home front.
Pregnancy.
Abundance in all forms.
Creativity and art.
Good luck.
Unconditional love begins at home.
Delight in animals, plants and all things natural.
Male querent – the object of his love.
REVERSED
Needs unfulfilled, lack of necessities.
Difficulty expressing emotion.
Vanity.
Easily offended.
Barrenness.
Troubled home or marriage.
Pay more attention to home life before it becomes a problem.
Low income, famine and starvation.
Non-productivity.
You need more love in your life.
Being under someone's influence.
Bad weather is brewing.
Weakness of character.
Unwanted pregnancy.
Stagnate atmosphere.
Fear and anxiety.
Indecisive.
Lack of connection and growth.
Poor health.
Seduction.
Inappropriate desires, unappeased lust that control the actions of an
individual.
Catastrophes in the family or in nature.
Eating disorders, body-image disorders.
1. Gill
2. Old Path
3. Robin Wood
4. Morgan Greer
5. Mythic
6. Greenwood
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Topic: Questions for Reflection - The Empress
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From: msesheta <msesheta@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 12 09:52AM -0500
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/msg/54a42c1c38a34476
How and when do you nurture yourself?
What is the most memorable act of caring ever shown you?
Who could benefit from your compassion, tenderness, or generosity?
What is the most extravagant gift you have ever received or given?
What pleasures do you allow or deny yourself?
What do you find beautiful?
Tarot for Life, page 54
Paul Quinn
ISBN 0780835608794
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Topic: The History of the Empress Card
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From: msesheta <msesheta@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 12 09:51AM -0500
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/msg/2280326d44ed1622
The History of the Empress Card
Compared with many of the other cards of the tarot, the Empress has
had a rather uneventful five centuries.
Waite and the other occultists are responsible for the starry crown,
the emblem of Venus, the waterfall, and the vegetation and wildlife.
In the historical decks the Empress sits on a throne, almost always
holding a shield or orb in one hand and a sceptre in the other. The
shield typically bears and eagle as the heraldic emblem of the Holy
Roman Empire.
Occasionally, the Empress is depicted with wings, like an angel. This
can be traced to woodcarvings misunderstanding and miscopying the
strangely-shaped throne on which the Empress sits in the Tarot de
Marseille pattern. The throne rises up on either side, giving the
appearance of wings rising from her back. A similar transformation
often occurred with Justice, who sits on a similar throne.
In the Minchiate of Florence, the Empress transformed into a
quasi-male figure, dubbed "the Grand Duke" in reference to the city's
ruler. This was also probably the result of ambiguity in interpreting
the simple woodblock designs, coupled with a pressure to make the
"rulers" (Papess, Empress, Emperor, and Pope) more palatable to church
authorities (the Minchiate transformed the Pope into a second Emperor
and dropped the Papess entirely). Even after the card had been called
"the Grand Duke" for centuries, it still retained some distinctly
feminine features.
The most direct interpretation of the Empress card is that it simply
depicts the Emperor's consort. As mentioned in my posting on the
history of the High Priestess card, there was a tradition of using
feminine figures as allegories for institutions, so in this sense a
woman in imperial regalia can stand for the Empire itself. However, if
this were the dominant association for the card, one might expect it
to sometimes be called "The Empire", which it never was.
The presence of the Papess in the deck might cause us to modify our
interpretation of the Empress, however. Although Gertrude Moakley
suggests that the Papess may indeed have been regarded as "the pope's
wife", this seems quite odd. Popes obviously did not marry, and I'm
not even aware of any stories or legends about pope's wives.
Furthermore, the tarot Papess actually wears the sacred trappings of
the office, such as the triple crown, which unambiguously makes her a
pope. So against this backdrop, we probably ought to view the Empress
not as the Emperor's wife, but as an actual ruler, the female Emperor.
This line of thought makes her a symbol of matriarchy, defiantly
finding expression in the thoroughly patriarchal culture of Europe as
it emerged from the Middle Ages. Female rulers were not entirely
unknown of course, but the powers-that-be tolerated a woman being
crowned as monarch only as a last resort. The Holy Roman Empire never
had a female ruler, nor did any of the northern Italian city-states
that existed when the tarot was first created. Naples and Sicily,
however, were both ruled by reigning queens in the 14th century.
There is an inevitable parallelism between political authority
structures and the authority structures embedded in the institution of
the family, especially in previous centuries. Thus Empress and Emperor
are Mother and Father, transposed from rulership of the household to
rulership of the world. Traditionally, the power of the Father is the
power of law and punishment, whereas the power of the Mother is the
power of nurturing and love. The Father enforces distinctions, the
Mother harmonizes and unifies.
Although there is nothing superficially subversive in the image of the
Empress, taken in isolation, her inclusion in the quaternity of rulers
and her juxtaposition with the Papess suggests the possibility that
she is a wordless manifesto for activating the power of the Mother in
the governance of the world. The designers of the tarot would not have
used that terminology, of course, but we may speculate that the
sentiment was present in the context of a political or theological
doctrine to which the designers subscribed.
In this context, it should be remembered that the tarot was the only
type of Italian playing cards at the time to include the rank of queen
amongst the courts. Italian cards, from the 14th century down to the
present day, consistently employ an all-male court of footman, knight,
and king. When one realizes that the tarot introduced not only an
Empress, but also a Papess and four Queens, into the feudal power
structure of the times, the pointedness of these female symbols
becomes harder to ignore.
BTW, it grieves me a bit to hear the traditional tarot designs
sometimes described as "patriarchal" or "male dominated". The
traditional tarot used radically egalitarian symbols of authority,
which placed it in stark contrast with the patriarchal institutions of
the dominant culture of the time.
http://www.tarothermit.com/empress.htm
Copyright 1999 Tom Tadfor Little
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Topic: Angel Paths for January 12 - The Empress
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From: msesheta <msesheta@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 12 09:49AM -0500
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/msg/76318fd7db7f3a4d
The Empress
The Empress is numbered three and symbolises one half of a perfect
polarity - the Emperor being the other side of the balance. From the
purity of the High Priestess we move naturally onwards to the Empress'
sense of bounty and fertility. She represents the Mother Goddess,
fulfilling her part in the eternal cycle of creation.
The Empress holds the power to steadily and determinedly rebuild,
renew, nurture and nourish. She has an unquenchable and generous
courage, responding instantly when she sees a need to defend. Her
realm is built of love, fertility and warmth. When the Empress holds
us we are once again in the sure safety of the infant at its mother's
breast.
She also represents unconditional love - making no demands and setting
no conditions. If we allow her love to flow through us then we too can
become a pure spring through which the Universe flows. Only our fears
stand between us and the Goddess.
Working with the Empress card
The Empress is the embodiment of womanhood. She covers all aspects of
love, beauty and female strength. Her throne is one built of
endurance, tenacity, loyalty and sheer determination. She stands for
the mother, and for the daughter.....who will in turn become mother.
And at her highest level, the Empress also represents the Great Mother
in her aspect of protector, nurturer, teacher, lover, and friend. Here
are all the elements of compassion, unconditional love and acceptance
that comes from a pure and unadulterated relationship with the
Goddess.
In recent times we have tended to overlook the importance of the
innate strength in womanhood. We can get blinded by the dynamic power
inherent in male strength, and completely forget the necessity for the
counter-balancing influence of female power.
There's nothing mushy about this power - it's no accident that many
Goddesses are regarded as destroyers - but it is infinitely different
to male strength. The entire dynamic of its expression is unique and
enduring.
On a day ruled by the Empress, we need to be trying to touch the
Goddess - either within or without. You'll see Her gentle beauty in a
thousand places if you look for it.
We also need to be considering love, and the ways in which we express
love and receive love in our lives. It's a good exercise to try out
every now and again, anyhow. When we run a quick check on the level of
love in our lives as a regular thing, we find it much harder to make
the mistake of taking it for granted.
On a more mundane level, this is a time to think of mothers - you, if
you are one; your mother; the concept of motherhood. And finally,
again we need to take that back to whatever we regard as the highest
principle of mothering in our lives.
And by the way - just because I have talked a lot about women, and
mothers, I am not excluding men. You have many of these same qualities
within your nature too. So get in touch with them!
Affirmation: Love and beauty flow through my life in a limitless stream
http://www.angelpaths.com/majors/empress2.html
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Topic: Thursday January 12, 2012: Reference.com On This Day
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From: msesheta <msesheta@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 12 09:44AM -0500
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/msg/742c3d6d0d6e5f5a
On This Day:
Thursday January 12, 2012
This is the 12th day of the year, with 354 days remaining in 2012.
Fact of the Day: snowflake birth
Snowflake Birth: 1. Rising air, moisture and cold temperatures combine
to form snowflakes in clouds high above the earth. First, water
droplet freezes into ice crystal. 2. If temperature is near 5 degrees
Fahrenheit and plenty of moisture is present, crystal grows six
branches with arms. 3. Crystal grows heavier as moisture condenses
onto it. 4. Crystal continues growing as it falls through the cloud.
5. Crystals falling into warm air begin melting. Water can act like
glue, holding crystals together in large flakes. (The USA Today
Weather Book)
Holidays
Feast day of St. Benedict or Benet Biscop, St. Tatiana, St. Margaret
Bourgeoys, St. Arcadius, St. Caesaria, St. Victorian, and St.
Eutropius.
Tanzania: Zanzibar Revolution Day.
Events
1773 - The first public museum (the Charleston Museum) in America was
established, in Charleston, South Carolina.
1866 - The Royal Aeronautical Society was founded in London.
1879 - The British-Zulu War began.
1908 - A wireless message was sent long-distance for the first time,
from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
1915 - The US House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give
women the right to vote.
1915 - Congress established Rocky Mountain National Park.
1932 - Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the US Senate.
1959 - "The Bell Telephone Hour," a musical series, premiered on television.
1966 - "Batman" premiered on TV.
1971 - "All in the Family" premiered on television.
Births
1588 - John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1737 - John Hancock, American, first signer of the Declaration of Independence.
1876 - Jack London (John Chaney), American author.
Deaths
1976 - Agatha Christie, English detective-story writer.
Reference.com On This Day
http://www.reference.com/thisday/
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Topic: A.Word.A.Day--autologous
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From: msesheta <msesheta@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 12 09:42AM -0500
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/msg/92f63d4aa041741b
Wordsmith.org The Magic of Words
Jan 12, 2012
This week's theme
Words coined using combining forms
This week's words
duopsony
hypochondriac
dysthymia
autologous
A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg
autologous
PRONUNCIATION:
(ah-TOL-uh-guhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Involving a situation in which the donor and the recipient
(of blood, skin, bone, etc.) are the same person.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek auto- (self) + -logous (as in homologous), from logos
(proportion, ratio, word). Earliest documented use: 1911.
USAGE:
"They talked about autologous fat transfer, where they extract the fat
from your behind and stick it in your face -- cheek to cheek, as it
were."
Isabel Wolff; A Vintage Affair; Bantam; 2010.
Explore "autologous" in the Visual Thesaurus.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or
objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires,
deeds, impulses and memories. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b.
1928)
Books by Anu Garg
© 2012 Wordsmith.org
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