Tarot Isis

This is the third major arcana of the tarot deck. It is called the Empress card. Venus is the planet, and lots of water and plants symbolizing nurture and life. I used Isis, the Egyption goddess worshipped as the ideal mother and wife. Because she was also worshipped as the goddess of children and the matron of nature and magic, I decided to show her pregnant with her son Horus. All around her you see life, the essence of her being. The plants, the Nile River behind her, the sky above. On the top and bottom, you see the moon phases establishing the mother relationship with the moon itself, a somewhat feminity characteristic of the mother. Her astrological sign is cancer, the crab. Enjoy.

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