The Empress (Laughing all the Way to the World, Part 4)

The Fool moves on and comes across his mum, who's enjoying a rest in the garden.

“The Empress sits before the door
Of a garden in full bloom.
At once a chaste wife and a whore,
All life within her womb.”
Lon Milo DuQuette

Pick this card and you know you’re sitting pretty. Comfort, abundance, creativity is all around and within you. Nurture the seeds you have sown with patience. The Empress is Mother/Mother Earth/Mother Nature – caring, giving, protecting – but watch out when she’s in a bad mood: her anger can be quite destructive, her yelling is feared by her children, and her husband has to pull some serious weight in her household. Treat her badly and she will wither or withdraw.

Motto: You can’t have everything…where would you put it?

Favourite Movie: Chocolat, in which a young woman (Vianne) and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a French village and seduce its repressed occupants with the delights of her secret recipes. The village slowly transforms from a barren place into one of love and emotional contentment.

Song: Lady Madonna, The Beatles

Book: The Yummy Mummy Manifesto: Baby, Beauty, Balance and Bliss, by Anna Johnson. Who says you need to leave your sense of style on the maternity ward?

Passion for: Food – natural and organic.

Celebrity Empress: Nigella Lawson, famous British TV cook, who deliciously demonstrates her indulgent recipes by taking big, sensuous bites from her toasted Mars bars and licking her fingers afterwards in front of the camera.

Famous Empress in History: Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria (born 1740 – died 1780) gave birth to 16 children and ruled Austria, Hungary and Croatia. She also became the Holy Roman empress by marriage. She ensured that all her offspring (the ones that survived childhood) would be married off well and thought she did a good job, when she sent her daughter Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) to France for her marriage with Louie XVI – Mothers can make mistakes sometimes, though they don’t prove fatal all the time….

Next time: The Emperor

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