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ИМПЕРАТРИЦА в Таро

Хозяйка, The Empress
Карта Таро «Императрица» — это символ изобилия, творческой силы, женской природы и плодородия во всех смыслах этого слова.

В системе Старших Арканов она имеет номер III и продолжает развитие пути после Верховной Жрицы. Если Жрица хранит тайное знание и внутреннюю мудрость, то Императрица воплощает эту внутреннюю силу в проявленной форме. Это энергия рождения — идей, проектов, чувств, состояний и самой жизни.

Императрица — архетип Матери, Созидательницы и ранительницы жизни. Она не просто наблюдает и не только управляет — она взращивает. Её сила мягкая, но глубокая. Она не давит, а питает. В ней соединяются чувственность, интуиция, забота и способность создавать пространство, где всё может расти и развиваться.
карта Таро ИМПЕРАТРИЦА
A stately figure, seated, having rich vestments and royal aspect, as of a daughter of heaven and
earth. Her diadem is of twelve stars, gathered in a cluster. The symbol of Venus is on the shield
which rests near her. A field of corn is ripening in front of her, and beyond there is a fall of water.
The sceptre which she bears is surmounted by the globe of this world. She is the inferior Garden of
Eden, the Earthly Paradise, all that is symbolized by the visible house of man. She is not Regina
coeli, but she is still refugium peccatorum, the fruitful mother of thousands. There are also certain
aspects in which she has been correctly described as desire and the wings thereof, as the woman
clothed with the sun, as Gloria Mundi and the veil of the Sanctum Sanctorum; but she is not, I may
add, the soul that has attained wings, unless all the symbolism is counted up another and unusual
way. She is above all things universal fecundity and the outer sense of the Word. This is obvious,
because there is no direct message which has been given to man like that which is borne by
woman; but she does not herself carry its interpretation.
In another order of ideas, the card of the Empress signifies the door or gate by which an entrance is
obtained into this life, as into the Garden of Venus; and then the way which leads out therefrom,
into that which is beyond, is the secret known to the High Priestess: it is communicated by her to
the elect. Most old attributions of this card are completely wrong on the symbolism--as, for
example, its identification with the Word, Divine Nature, the Triad, and so forth.
Arthur Edward Waite
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910)