The Empress Tarot Year Card (3): Meaning and Birthdays

A year of The Empress

The Empress holds a year of growth at the pace of living things. Projects, relationships and bodies tend to want care rather than pressure. It is a good year for making: gardens, homes, work you can hold in your hands. Pleasure is part of the work, not a distraction from it.

What the year asks

It asks you to tend rather than push, and to receive care as well as give it. The shadow is smothering: caring for everything and everyone until there is nothing left for what you are growing yourself.

Sitting with it

Choose one thing to tend steadily through the year and give it a regular rhythm. Notice what your body asks for and answer it.

Questions for the year

What in my life is ready to grow if I tend it?
Where do I give care and refuse to take it?
What would I make if it only had to please me?

Who has The Empress as a year card

Under Greer's method no birthday gives The Empress in 2026 or 2027. It last fell in 2008, for 1 birthdays, and next falls in 2057, for 1: December 31.

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The Empress: full tarot card meaning

Growth that comes from tending, not forcing.

If it is also your birth card

The Empress is also a birth card for some people. In the year it comes round as your year card, the theme you were born with is the one the year brings up.

Birth cards that include The Empress

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