The Empress Tarot Card Meaning and Art Visconti A Tarot Deck Fragment
Designation
About the Deck
Visconti A Tarot Deck Fragment
(aka Cary-Yale Tarot Deck or Visconti di Madrone Tarot Deck) One of the earliest Tarot Decks, the Cary Yale Visconti Deck is entirely gilded, with fine paintings upon it. Like the other Visconti decks, it features numerous heraldic devices. Unlike the other Visconti decks, it features a maid and a lady among the court cards.
Traditionally said to have been commissioned by Fillipo Maria Visconti for the 1441 marriage of Bianca Maria Visconti to Francesco Sforza I.
Provenance
Italy, c. 1441.
Tags
imperial-eagle, trumps-3, the-empress
According to Many Schools of Thought
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
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.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Action, Plan, Undertaking Movement in a matter, Initiative
Reversed
Inaction, Frittering away of power, Want of Concentration Vacillation.
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Action. Initiative.
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