Ooh, I love that card in the Robin Wood!
She looks so together, yet playful, I think she is almost winking at me. There is a song going through her head:
"Birds flying high, you know how I feel, sun in the sky, you know how I feel, breeze drifting on by, you how I feel. It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me...and I'm feeling good. Fish in the sea you know how I feel, river running free you know how I feel, blossom on the tree, you know how I feel... " (loud woodland orchestra takes up chorus).
Is it possible to be deep and playful, protected, protective and free? Oh, Madam Robin Wood Empress knows. She has the knowlege that links matter and spirit as one, and it makes her grin. The life growing inside her extends her heart and her loins. She'll keep it, love it, gives it a home for the time being, but you can see, from her smile and the lightness of her fingers on the spinning wheel, that she won't cling to her child. When the time comes she'll let him go, she'll let him go adventuring, while she spins shirts and stories. She knows the wheel turns...
She sits there, spinning away. Maybe she's spinning linen for her baby, or maybe a new dress for when she's no longer pregnant and she can go dancing again with her dear husband. She looks happy, expectant, but also, somewhat mysterious, as though she borrowed some cosmic dust from her sister the High Priestess, the family seer. But she brought it right down to earth and added it to a great cake recipe.
She is far less dangerous-looking than some other Empresses. Perhaps less sexy, and there is a bit of dirt under her fingernails. But her man thinks she's the best thing since sliced bread. She is just herself, absolutely.