III — The Empress (L’Impératrice)

The explosion of everything that was silently accumulated in the Papess. She is pure creative force bursting into the world: fertility, seduction, joyful desire, and the sudden flowering of nature in spring. The scepter rests against her belly — creation that is both sexual and maternal. The eagle on her shield is the mind awakening, ready to take flight.She does not contain; she generates. She is the seed that breaks open.