The Empress Tarot Card is passive and feminine with thought and intuition

The Empress Tarot Card represents Emotion and
Feeling to harmonise and bring together.  A
prosperous and sedate Empress Tarot Card

The Empress Tarot Card shows a matronly woman seated out of doors.  In the tarot card, she is crowned and carries a sceptre in one hand.  A shield emblazoned with an eagle is also shown, sometimes cradled in her arm, other times resting by her foot.  She looks prosperous and sedate.

The Empress Tarot Card is given the number three, the number of synthesis and harmony, so,  this should always be considered when this tarot card shows in your reading. 

The power of the Empress in the tarot card reading is passive, feminine, not active intellectual control as exercised by the Magician.  Her weapons are of emotion and feeling, not of thought.

Everyday Tarot: Using the Cards to Make Better Life Decisions

In the spiritual world she represents that faith which springs from the comfort of material things and an emotional outlook and appreciation of the gift of nature.

In the mundane world she represents feeling in the sense of a kind of judgement, reached by the conclusion through thought and intuition in applying values to things.  This ability is generally more highly developed in women than in men, although some men do exhibit it in an advanced form.

The Empress Tarot Card in a reading is ultimately the feeling type and the woman develops this feeling to reveal a fair and sympathetic mother, dedicated to the well-being of her family.  she is adept at handling people and getting the best out of them, revealing a deep understanding of their problems and difficulties.

The Empress can also by enriching her gifts and revealing herself as the beautiful lady, can manifest through the male sex, devotion to her Ideal and arousal of chivalrous thoughts in the hearts of men.

Reading Upright The Empress Tarot Card:  Fertility, abundance, fruitfulness, motherhood.  Indicates domestic stability, sympathetic honesty, maternal care and protection.  Comfort or inspiration gained through contact with nature.  Reassurance and a sense of security obtained through the pleasures of the senses.  Also a symbol of growth; the establishment of a firm foundation for future progress.

Reading Reversed The Empress Tarot Card:  Domestic upheaval, maternal tyranny or over-protectiveness.  Sterility or an unwanted pregnancy.  A sense of the universe as either impersonal or hostile.  Not in touch with herself and therefore feeling alienated.   Poverty could be possible in the reading of the empress tarot card reversed.