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In many Tarot packs this card shows a man flanked by two women, one pure and respectable, the other beautiful and wanton. The figure above their heads is Cupid, his arrow pointing variously at one of the three below him. The symbolism is clear: having recognized the need for male to unite with female at the level of the inner self, the choice is now between the two versions of femininity: on the one hand the virginal and sacred (The Priestess), and on the other the fertile and material (The Empress).

The Waite pack shows a naked man and woman, with an androgynous winged figure above their heads - representing the coming together of the fully integrated male with the fully integrated female. The winged figure is that part of the inner self which is beyond male and female, which both brings about, and is born from, the union of polar opposites.

Divinatory Meaning Reversed: indecision, problems in a relationship, aversion.

Other Paintings in this Series:

The Tower

Wheel of Fortune

Strength

Death

The Hanged Man

The Fool

The Sun

Of Related Interest:

Symbolism of the TAROT (Paperback Book)

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