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The Empress
Concealed Ideas and Their Preparation

Path of Illuminating Intelligence
Daughter of the Mighty Ones
Daleth – Door
Venus   <>   Salt

         The Empress is the symbol for the Feminine aspect of existence.  All things given the appellation ‘she’ and ‘mother’ are referred to in The Empress.  She is the yin side of the Chinese yin and yang polarity; the spiraling life force, Shakti, in the Hindu pantheon.  She is an avid appreciator of life.  In her three distinct stages of expression – virginity, motherhood, menopause – she mirrors nature’s trinity of phases: emergence, blossom, end.  The Empress is the doorway through which we all enter life.  She is both mother and warrior.  She will nurture her children with her own heart’s blood if that is all there is to sustain them, but she will defend them with it too.  She is the archetype of creativity:  the root of ‘create’ is ker2=to grow, which comes from ker-es=cereal, which derives from Ceres=Goddess of Agriculture. 

The prominence of creativity in the feminine nature is symbolized in astrology by the planet Venus.  Venus is given affinity with art, joy and love; with the feminine principle, and thus with The Empress.  In these affinities you will find the answer to the often-asked question: What does woman want?  Woman wants relationship, certainly with a lover, and with children, but also with all life.  Woman wants beauty to surround her, she wants to create harmony in form.  Woman wants everything – heaven here and now, not there and later.  The message of The Empress when she shows herself to you is: love life, embrace life, solve your dilemmas with the creative force of love.

Another word for love is affinity (“a natural attraction or feeling of kinship”).  The Empress, like our Mother Earth, reminds us of our affinity and kinship with all life’s creatures – rock, spider, saint and murderer.  The Empress resolves by caring.  She is the Salt of the earth – the inactive principle of life, which is associated with The Empress.  She sees every emotional wall as a door to be opened: she confronts for the sake of creation and the continuation of Life in all its beauty. 

            When The Empress chooses to appear in your reading, her wisdom advises you to consider the ways you can create, “…cause to exist, bring into being, produce…” your vision, your truth, your wish, your journey. The Empress reminds you to love and to include yourself in that love – it’s what you love that becomes is your Path.  She also says: have a dinner party!

 How can I grow up to be a real princess? (Asked by Amber, seven years old). 
By always remembering that you want to be a princess;     by doing a lot of research, reading, investigation of what a princess has been in the past and what princess is today.  A true princess glows joy from her heart, is loving, kind, and compassionate toward people, is not stuck-up or vain about being a princess or being pretty or being special.  A true princess uses her very nice position in life to help others who are not so fortunate.

Oh, Writer in the Window, how does one keep from becoming too dependent on your loved one?
Keep busy with the creation of your own life.

 

Please write about Menopause:
Men – a pause;
a joy
for the independent 
soul
free at last
from teasing, lipstick
and figure-worry.

 

 

Questions and Answers from Dear Writer in the Window -- The Wit & Wisdom of a Sidewalk Sage, by Georgelle Hirliman, Penguin/ Books 1992, iUniverse 2002

 

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