Tarot Portions V - Queen archetypes

Here I present my understanding about archetypes of Queens in Tarot.
Generally all Queens represent feminine energy, or feminine qualities, abilities, appearance. They are linked with the major Arcana cards – II. High Priestess and III. Empress. These are the main basic archetypes of feminine characters. They have different attributes, light and shadow sides and different approach to life.

Queen of Wands ~

This queen represent the feminine aspect of Fire energy. Her qualities are – powerful, controlling, passionate, irresistible, femme fatale, jealous, flirtatious, active, social, open, confident, independent, loud, expressing, magnificent, draw attention, role model, likes to be in the spotlight. She can be also generous, giving, overbearing, or hypocritical at times, possessive, dominant. She has strong energy and motivation for work and can be excellent leader. This is the personage of feminine that can be expressed with III. The Empress – as she is in numerology of 3. – fire. Queen of wands doesn’t shy from social activities and loves adventures and to be surrounded with people.

Queen of Wands: Woman who is very powerful, has creative energy, she is passionate, independent, with courage, confident, with high sexual power, attractive; Taking charge, organizing your life, doing multiple activities with passion.

-        desire for new spiritual knowledge and practice;

-        Good health and vitality; need of physical exercises

-        Work: multitasking ability, you are flexible, creative

-        Card for pregnancy and conception

-     Love: be confident that you are attractive and now is a good time for a new relationship, and new partner;

High Priestess of Fire; Fire energy with feminine aspect. A bit controlling, jealous or dominant. She can manifest anything she wants in real life, specially love. 

Questions: What creative path you want to take? Which talents you want to develop?

Qualities to work on: strength, persistency, confidence; self-development; she is physically attractive; independent; devoted to people she loves and family. 

Self-care practice: take care of your passions and follow your goals and desires about carrier. You will have success. Make a small changes in your routine and schedule. Change your eating habbits, exercise or do yoga. Consider reading spiritual books. 

Her almost opposite side is:

Queen of Cups (water) ~

The character of queen of cups represents feminine energy of water element. She is solitary, quiet, dreamy, cute, loving and lovable, she is caring for others, compassionate, empath, love staying in her sacred space; She can be understanding, attractive, mysterious, with feeling from another world, clairvoyant, sensitive, with warm heart. She chooses with who to share her emotions, and is careful to select close friends. Queen of cups is psychic, feels attracted from invisible world, loves to day dream, have very creative imagination, but its not active or practical. She can listen to others, and be a good mentor, teacher. She has vivid imagination and feels drawn to arts – painting, crafts, music, poetry. She often likes to live in her own world, and she don’t afraid to be alone. This is a mysterious woman, that draws attention of men, but prefers to be away, or chooses carefully. This is the Queen represented by II. High Priestess (water energy).

Queen of Swards (air) ~

This is the queen representing the woman of mind and wisdom. Her qualities are – elegance, grace, wisdom, analytical thinking, likes circle of like-minded people, loves mindful people and all aspects of learning, education, languages. Her best challenges are connected with mindfulness, study, teaching, practicing. Writing can be her passion. She is also simple, enjoys beauty of little things, loves freedom and has creative energy. She is charming, even maybe not so desired as Queen of wands. She is also quite honest and open, which makes her not woman of mystery as queen of cups. She can be quite strict and serious, but she loves to be herself, and trust her intuition. Her best quality is gaining wisdom from observations.

Queen of Pentacles (earth)

Queen of Pentalcles represents the feminine qualities of earth and Pentacles. This queen is also the type of 3. Empress. She loves the earth, nature and life pleasures. She has also very sexual energy. She wants to feel safe and secure and indulge in luxuries of life. Queen of Pentacles is generous, friendly, devoted friend and mother, loves to have healthy diet, and loves to travel around to many interesting places. She is also social, reliable, loyal, sweet, and nurturing. She only lacks little depth of mind, but she is sincere and open with others and always tries to help. She is persistent, loves hand crafts, gardening or just managing activities of others in her castle.

     All queens express intuitive abilities, compassion, love and nurturing energy. They are different and the focus of Queen of cups or queen of swards can be more inward, while the focus of Queen of wands and Q. of Pentacles is more outward – or to others.

The interesting thing is each queen can and should gain energy, and qualities of another queen, different from her. That will enrich her experience, and help her understand aspects of her own self. That’s the process of personal growth and expansion of mind.

Reveal which queen are you?

Aurora by Mark Ryden 

N_ina Lea-nour *

 { Angel`s medium 

 { Reiki healer