The mother card

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 28 Jan 2004, and now archived in the Forum Library.

ros	28 Jan 2004
I use the Queen of whatever zodiac sign for the ladies in my readings. I have read here somewhere people use The Empress. I now read the Moon means your mother. Any more mother cards? What about fathers. The Emperor & ...

miss_apples	28 Jan 2004
I use the Empress also. I also use the Ace of wands if there is possibly a baby on the way.

Agathe	28 Jan 2004
Well, it depends on the spread. When it's small I don't use the Empress as a mother. All the queens represent women. However, there is this general spread for which I use 44 cards and in this spread it's either the Empress or the High Priestes that represents querent's mother (it depends on his/her choice). But what you're saying trigured my thinking in this area and I'll have to think about it while reading cards :) Blessings, Agathe

Inana	31 Jan 2004
Mothers and fathers... The more usual is: Empress- Emperor Other possibilities: Moon - Sun This pair is in a more broad sense of feminine-masculine, but i've seen them meaning this. I know in some other cultures the sun is female and the moon male, but anyway it works for me. High Priestess - Hierophant I got this pair once in a spread asking about childhood. It was interesting cause both cards are teachers, but arent together. Divorced parents. About queens and kings: I've seen here in this forum some people use the queen of swords often as a mother card. Guess any of the queens or kings can work as mother or father.

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