Messages from the Empress on Skulls
Ace of Skulls
My child, this card speaks of a time when motivation, will, feelings of heart, and thoughts of mind begin to manifest in abundance. You may see a breakthrough in the earthly realm of family and home or work and practice or wealth and physical things, blooming like these purple roses. There may be an open door, a new project, a windfall in some area of earthly life. Issues you have been experiencing spiritually, intellectually, or emotionally may break through into the real world at home or work.
In this card lies the seeds that can be reaped fully in the Ten of Skulls. I water these seeds with my promises and tend them with my care. Here you see the first sprouting as Elijah the prophet first saw a cloud the size of a fist and ran in faith, knowing the floodgates of heaven would soon open. Like Elijah, you, too, can rise up, know that your light has come, and run with my grace, energy, and gift of faith.
My child, this card speaks of a time when motivation, will, feelings of heart, and thoughts of mind begin to manifest in abundance. You may see a breakthrough in the earthly realm of family and home or work and practice or wealth and physical things, blooming like these purple roses. There may be an open door, a new project, a windfall in some area of earthly life. Issues you have been experiencing spiritually, intellectually, or emotionally may break through into the real world at home or work.
In this card lies the seeds that can be reaped fully in the Ten of Skulls. I water these seeds with my promises and tend them with my care. Here you see the first sprouting as Elijah the prophet first saw a cloud the size of a fist and ran in faith, knowing the floodgates of heaven would soon open. Like Elijah, you, too, can rise up, know that your light has come, and run with my grace, energy, and gift of faith.
Two of Skulls
Allow me to bring balance into your life, wherever you feel pushed to an extreme or stretched to a breaking point. Whether at home or work, finances or health, you can find harmony as seeming opposites make a stronger whole. just as the newly transformed vampyress here reflects on the exchange of blood that brought her to this new state, an integration of the old that brought new strength, so you can recognize the beautiful exchange of your thoughts in mine, a respiration of your spirit and mine. Just as the skull and roses mirror one another at the base of this card, so your physical life and spiritual life feed one another. The casket locks and unlocks over time, states of being that define one another, just as the ouroboros encircling the mirror shows the feeding and filling, feast and famine cycles of time. Allow the flow of diverse elements to do their work: light and shadow, work and rest, highs and lows. I will make everything beautiful in its time and work in all things for your good because you love me.
Allow me to bring balance into your life, wherever you feel pushed to an extreme or stretched to a breaking point. Whether at home or work, finances or health, you can find harmony as seeming opposites make a stronger whole. just as the newly transformed vampyress here reflects on the exchange of blood that brought her to this new state, an integration of the old that brought new strength, so you can recognize the beautiful exchange of your thoughts in mine, a respiration of your spirit and mine. Just as the skull and roses mirror one another at the base of this card, so your physical life and spiritual life feed one another. The casket locks and unlocks over time, states of being that define one another, just as the ouroboros encircling the mirror shows the feeding and filling, feast and famine cycles of time. Allow the flow of diverse elements to do their work: light and shadow, work and rest, highs and lows. I will make everything beautiful in its time and work in all things for your good because you love me.
Three of Skulls
My love, this card reminds you of the process of creation, represented here by the spinning wheel, a microcosm of time and choice, bringing forth a fine thread of craft, art, hearth, or heritage. The thread is connected in turn to the web of humanity and culture, where myth, archetype, and recombined elements reverberate along the many strands. This figure has been filled with strength, vision, and anointing, represented by the horns on the skull and the blooming purple roses. She is excellent at this new commission, venture, or vocation, but she is focused on the task with both hands full. I have brought everything together for the creation process that stands before you as an open door. Honor your craft; honor the web of connections to those who have gone before, those who work together, standing on the shoulders of giants, and those who partake of the creation. Honor the process and leave the results to me. Enjoy the flow and grow!
My love, this card reminds you of the process of creation, represented here by the spinning wheel, a microcosm of time and choice, bringing forth a fine thread of craft, art, hearth, or heritage. The thread is connected in turn to the web of humanity and culture, where myth, archetype, and recombined elements reverberate along the many strands. This figure has been filled with strength, vision, and anointing, represented by the horns on the skull and the blooming purple roses. She is excellent at this new commission, venture, or vocation, but she is focused on the task with both hands full. I have brought everything together for the creation process that stands before you as an open door. Honor your craft; honor the web of connections to those who have gone before, those who work together, standing on the shoulders of giants, and those who partake of the creation. Honor the process and leave the results to me. Enjoy the flow and grow!
Four of Skulls
Five of Skulls
I am with you when you feel poor in spirit, when disappointment comes with failure, material loss, or sickness. Misfortune may seem to have the upper hand, like this beast, and you may feel downtrodden, losing heart, hitting bottom as this figure in white lies bleeding at the entrance to the underworld. However, as these purple and red roses bloom among the roots, so I will manifest in special ways that you may know my love, care, and closeness so well that you could almost be happy for the hardship and difficulty you face.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, and blessed are you in this impoverishment that you may experience my presence and breakthrough. Lift up your eyes, as the eyes of these figures are turning up, for your redemption draws near. I am with you.
I am with you when you feel poor in spirit, when disappointment comes with failure, material loss, or sickness. Misfortune may seem to have the upper hand, like this beast, and you may feel downtrodden, losing heart, hitting bottom as this figure in white lies bleeding at the entrance to the underworld. However, as these purple and red roses bloom among the roots, so I will manifest in special ways that you may know my love, care, and closeness so well that you could almost be happy for the hardship and difficulty you face.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, and blessed are you in this impoverishment that you may experience my presence and breakthrough. Lift up your eyes, as the eyes of these figures are turning up, for your redemption draws near. I am with you.
Six of Skulls
My love, there are special times when I bring such balance and harmony that you feel a taste of paradise, a holy mountaintop experience when life force and well being flow under the light of sun and moon, inspiration of earth and sky--practical, physical manifestations of the archetypal Lovers. Enjoy this connection as this figure does with the faithful, protective wolf, with her talisman/totem, and with her Source.
Feel the wonderful rootedness that is the spirit of true fruitfulness, a flow of giving and receiving, a time of energizing that can influence all the cards, elements, or aspects surrounding with its grace and strength. Breathe in deeply and exhale. Listen and speak. Center and reach out. Receive my love deeply and fully share it. Freely, freely you receive and freely freely may give.
My love, there are special times when I bring such balance and harmony that you feel a taste of paradise, a holy mountaintop experience when life force and well being flow under the light of sun and moon, inspiration of earth and sky--practical, physical manifestations of the archetypal Lovers. Enjoy this connection as this figure does with the faithful, protective wolf, with her talisman/totem, and with her Source.
Feel the wonderful rootedness that is the spirit of true fruitfulness, a flow of giving and receiving, a time of energizing that can influence all the cards, elements, or aspects surrounding with its grace and strength. Breathe in deeply and exhale. Listen and speak. Center and reach out. Receive my love deeply and fully share it. Freely, freely you receive and freely freely may give.
Seven of Skulls
Eight of Skulls
My child, now is the time for humble steps and small measures. Do not despise the days of small beginnings, for when you are faithful with little, you will be faithful with much: these simple tasks and services sometimes mask the Eternal. Invest your skills, talents, portions of time, and small treasures diligently day by day.
Do not consider great things or make bid plans, but persevere in following instructions, step by step, precept by precept. See the world in a grain of sand and eternity in a wild flower. As the solitary magician here sees a spirit beginning to materialize, so the simple elements in your life can combine in a synergy and synthesis greater than the sum of each part. I bring breakthrough, progress, and a new season of growth as your hard work brings my manifestation. Wonders arise as you continue faithfully.
My child, now is the time for humble steps and small measures. Do not despise the days of small beginnings, for when you are faithful with little, you will be faithful with much: these simple tasks and services sometimes mask the Eternal. Invest your skills, talents, portions of time, and small treasures diligently day by day.
Do not consider great things or make bid plans, but persevere in following instructions, step by step, precept by precept. See the world in a grain of sand and eternity in a wild flower. As the solitary magician here sees a spirit beginning to materialize, so the simple elements in your life can combine in a synergy and synthesis greater than the sum of each part. I bring breakthrough, progress, and a new season of growth as your hard work brings my manifestation. Wonders arise as you continue faithfully.
Nine of Skulls
My sweetheart, this card speaks of times when I bring abundance and fruitfulness from your labor. It may be the fruit of labor pains and nine months of waiting or it may be the reward for working nine fields of thorns and thistles. But just as this vampyress dances exultantly, having passed through a season of the underworld, so do you lift your own rose of manifestation, bleeding with life force, energy, joy, and peace. The gravestone here stands like an altar of remembrance, an emblem of healthy self-satisfaction and a hallmark of gratitude to me. This card is ruled by Venus in Virgo, appropriately reflecting my love and the earthly stability of the Hermit, also represented here by 9 as he journeys through the soul under the moon. Just as this figure is jeweled with wealth and clothed with riches, so you have times when you are draped with success and sweet treasures. Enjoy thisgarden of delight and be encouraged in future seasons and cycles of life as you walk with me. Taste and know that I am good and remember me.
My sweetheart, this card speaks of times when I bring abundance and fruitfulness from your labor. It may be the fruit of labor pains and nine months of waiting or it may be the reward for working nine fields of thorns and thistles. But just as this vampyress dances exultantly, having passed through a season of the underworld, so do you lift your own rose of manifestation, bleeding with life force, energy, joy, and peace. The gravestone here stands like an altar of remembrance, an emblem of healthy self-satisfaction and a hallmark of gratitude to me. This card is ruled by Venus in Virgo, appropriately reflecting my love and the earthly stability of the Hermit, also represented here by 9 as he journeys through the soul under the moon. Just as this figure is jeweled with wealth and clothed with riches, so you have times when you are draped with success and sweet treasures. Enjoy thisgarden of delight and be encouraged in future seasons and cycles of life as you walk with me. Taste and know that I am good and remember me.
Ten of Skulls
Enjoy the fruit of your labor, my beloved. Drink deeply and know that you have an abundance to share, a cup that overflows in my presence, at my table of plenty. Like this figure leaning back on a throne in repose, you may feel satisfaction and fulfillment in your realm, feel the roots of security, the skull of ancestry, the ten red roses of legacy, which contain seeds with fiery energy like the Ace of Scepters, the next cycle already conceived within.
Enjoy this feeling of accomplishment as you share the spoils or pass on the inheritance. Return thanks to me, pour out a libation, sing a new song to celebrate the harvest. The city is secure, and the foundations have been laid: my banner over you is love. My wealth is now yours as you remember what true wealth is. You will enjoy the richest of fare.
Enjoy the fruit of your labor, my beloved. Drink deeply and know that you have an abundance to share, a cup that overflows in my presence, at my table of plenty. Like this figure leaning back on a throne in repose, you may feel satisfaction and fulfillment in your realm, feel the roots of security, the skull of ancestry, the ten red roses of legacy, which contain seeds with fiery energy like the Ace of Scepters, the next cycle already conceived within.
Enjoy this feeling of accomplishment as you share the spoils or pass on the inheritance. Return thanks to me, pour out a libation, sing a new song to celebrate the harvest. The city is secure, and the foundations have been laid: my banner over you is love. My wealth is now yours as you remember what true wealth is. You will enjoy the richest of fare.
Daughter of Skulls
Prince of Skulls
My child, this prince may remind you of someone in your life or of an energy you yourself can summon to embody for others. He is air of earth, the wind blowing wildly around the strongly rooted figure. He looks backward to heritage, tradition, and ancestors--all that has come before in this cycle of tarot, even as the Daughter in the next card looks forward to the new cycle beginning. The figures hand over the candle shows his restraint and groundedness, even as his hair flies freely in the air. The skull speaks of his deep love for Mother Earth, his careful practice and practicality, his faithfulness and consistency in sowing and reaping in reality. His rich clothing shows his appreciation for the abundant blessings that I promise and provide as his Empress. His earthly nature is energized by his airy youth, so his clothing is also expressive and flamboyant, showing that he can incarnate his ideas ans ideals through focused artistry and skill. Although he sometimes wanders out, he carries a pinch of earth at center in his navel, connecting him always with home and earth.
My child, this prince may remind you of someone in your life or of an energy you yourself can summon to embody for others. He is air of earth, the wind blowing wildly around the strongly rooted figure. He looks backward to heritage, tradition, and ancestors--all that has come before in this cycle of tarot, even as the Daughter in the next card looks forward to the new cycle beginning. The figures hand over the candle shows his restraint and groundedness, even as his hair flies freely in the air. The skull speaks of his deep love for Mother Earth, his careful practice and practicality, his faithfulness and consistency in sowing and reaping in reality. His rich clothing shows his appreciation for the abundant blessings that I promise and provide as his Empress. His earthly nature is energized by his airy youth, so his clothing is also expressive and flamboyant, showing that he can incarnate his ideas ans ideals through focused artistry and skill. Although he sometimes wanders out, he carries a pinch of earth at center in his navel, connecting him always with home and earth.
Queen of Skulls
My love, when I present you with this card, I am reminding you of a person in your life or an aspect of yourself that is like this beautiful, earthly woman. I invite you to connect with her energy, to think and feel as she does. She sits grounded in this cavern where a waterfall cascades--two forms of femininity in earth and water. The skulls and roots show her connection to ancestors, family, or tradition. Her repose is evident in her relaxed poise, and her care is clear in her concerned expression. She is connected to the spirit animal of the suit of skulls, the wolf, showing her faithfulness, teamwork, and nurture.
She is a healer, sometimes simply in her presence and gentle influence. As a person in your life or an aspect of yourself, she reveals my archetypal qualities, displaying my love, wisdom, abundance, skill, and power. I flow through in nurture, protection, provision, abundance, as well as practical help, support and concern. Celebrate and connect with my healing and unimaginable love.
My love, when I present you with this card, I am reminding you of a person in your life or an aspect of yourself that is like this beautiful, earthly woman. I invite you to connect with her energy, to think and feel as she does. She sits grounded in this cavern where a waterfall cascades--two forms of femininity in earth and water. The skulls and roots show her connection to ancestors, family, or tradition. Her repose is evident in her relaxed poise, and her care is clear in her concerned expression. She is connected to the spirit animal of the suit of skulls, the wolf, showing her faithfulness, teamwork, and nurture.
She is a healer, sometimes simply in her presence and gentle influence. As a person in your life or an aspect of yourself, she reveals my archetypal qualities, displaying my love, wisdom, abundance, skill, and power. I flow through in nurture, protection, provision, abundance, as well as practical help, support and concern. Celebrate and connect with my healing and unimaginable love.
Lord of Skulls