WolfyJames
cjtarot has also written interesting stuffs on this card, and other cards as well, in a thread on The Gothic Tarot and he/she accepted graciously to be quoted here.
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Here's the Empress, in a door within a coffin. The arch has a pillar on each side, and on each side of the arch stands the guardians, skeletons with wings. The Empress, wearing a long white gown and a crown, looks scared or very angry, I'm not sure, as she is ready to come out of her coffin. She also has weird knees like The High Priestess. Could it be that Vargo has problems drawing that part of the anatomy? I'll check the entire deck later.
Maybe the Fool, entered in this realm, then harnessed his powers as the Magician, became an initiated, and a vampire, with the High Priestess; and now, The Empress is shocked, maybe she is just discovering what it means to be a vampire, and it's scary. And as The Emperor, will come in term with it and use it as a tool of authority and power, and enjoy it.
cjtarot said:I want to respond to the quote about the Lovers, the High Priest and the Empress standing in the same arch...
The Empress, guards her home...the relm of beond. (note the Emperor is inside with all the babe's doing NOTHING)
The Hight PRiest guards the knowledge in the Relm of beond
The Lovers..It is your choice (or is it) to enter into the Relm..note the lovers almost look farther into the arch..
Also look at the High Priestess and the 9 of cups...
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The HP..guarding the unknow of our sub consious - or the door to the afterlife.
The 9 of cups.. Cups are emotion, our life flow if you will..the 9 is showing the final preperation before we are fufilled, before the final journey into the ultimate unknow..(Note the 10 of cups is within that arch..the claiming or the dark angel leading you away)
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Here's the Empress, in a door within a coffin. The arch has a pillar on each side, and on each side of the arch stands the guardians, skeletons with wings. The Empress, wearing a long white gown and a crown, looks scared or very angry, I'm not sure, as she is ready to come out of her coffin. She also has weird knees like The High Priestess. Could it be that Vargo has problems drawing that part of the anatomy? I'll check the entire deck later.
Maybe the Fool, entered in this realm, then harnessed his powers as the Magician, became an initiated, and a vampire, with the High Priestess; and now, The Empress is shocked, maybe she is just discovering what it means to be a vampire, and it's scary. And as The Emperor, will come in term with it and use it as a tool of authority and power, and enjoy it.