Alchemical Goddesses and The Tarot’s Empress Card
4 min readMay 22, 2021
In traditional astrology, each of the seven classical planets was assigned to a single house in the natal chart. This is where the planet was said to “rejoice,” demonstrating its most positive significations. The planetary assignment was also connected to many of the meanings of the houses. Venus was said to rejoice in the fifth house — the house of “Good Fortune” — to which creativity, fertility, and children are typically assigned.
The Empress card has often been associated with the archetypal Venus (or Aphrodite in Greek mythology). The…
