Empress
I am the bringer of life where there was no life before. You owe your very life, your very existence to me. I am truly all things fertile, and if it lives, it is because I live. Even if I am unappreciated and underestimated I will not stop; I cannot stop, it is who I am.
Image – In the spirit of this deck I chose to go a darker route with the mother for this card. The traditional representation of the stream carrying the seed has been replaced by lightning. A slight respelling of the word lightning into lightening is a biological process that occurs in a woman near the end of pregnancy. Instead of the fertile and lush environment which represents the results I chose reds and fires focusing on the expected passion that is a part of conception.