Empress Card Pairing Exercise Part 3 – The Suit of Cups

(Sample Pairings)

This Exercise is all about making rapid connections between cards when they appear in a spread together. In this example I chose The Empress as the focus card with all subsequent cards needing to refer back to her. Instead of attempting to work with all the potential interpretations for the Empress, I decided to settle on one word for her – Woman. From there I went rapidly through each Card in the Cups Suit of The Minor Arcana, not allowing myself to dwell for too long on what they might imply.  The combinations or pairings below could have numerous alternative interpretations applied to them, but this is not about making them relevant for a particular reading, just getting the brain to make connections through free association. Why not try it yourself. You could build on this exercise by going back over it, each time adding a new connection. You might try using another focus word for the Empress as your starting base. Connections can be based on traditional tarot interpretations, intuitive responses, imagery, symbolism, numerology, free association. Just find a way that works for you. We may come back to this again to add a third card into the mix. I will continue this exercise with The Swords Suit of The Minor Arcana and post when completed.

I have supplied more than one example for some card pairings below as I couldn’t settle on which one to choose. Each Card Pairing has multiple options to choose from. The nature of the reading should help narrow down your field of choice.

Check Out The Empress & Major Arcana Pairing

And The Empress & Wands Suit Pairing

Empress/Ace of Cups – A Big-Hearted Woman  –  Rx – An Emotionally Devoid Woman

Empress/Two of Cups – A Compatible/Agreeable Woman /Rx An Incompatible/Quarrelsome Woman

Empress/Three of Cups – An Outgoing, Convivial Woman – Rx An Unsociable, Unfriendly Woman

Empress/Four of Cups – A Disinterested Apathetic Woman  – Rx A Refocused Motivated Woman

Empress/Five of Cups – A Bitter, Angry Woman –  Rx A Conciliatory, Forgiving Woman

Empress/Six Of Cups – A Nostalgic  Woman/A Kept Woman/Home Bird – Rx An Overly Sentimental Woman/An Overly Attached, Dependent Woman/A Reclusive Woman

Empress/Seven of Cups – A Woman Spoiled For Choice – Rx A Woman With Few Options

Empress/Eight of Cups – A Woman Who Just Can’t Stay/Has Had Enough/An Abandoned Woman –  Rx A  Woman Who Just Can’t Leave/Who Accepts Her Lot/A Banished Woman

Empress/Nine of Cups – A Woman Applauded and Praised/A Sated Woman  – Rx A Woman Overlooked or Passed Over / A Greedy Woman

Empress/Ten of Cups – A Family Woman/Woman of The House/Matriarch  – Rx A Woman With No Place or Position/Home Wrecker/Outcast/Social Pariah

Empress/Page of Cups – An Emotionally Sensitive Woman/A Fashionable Woman – Rx A Highly Strung Woman/Mutton Dressed As Lamb

Empress/Knight of Cups – A Tolerant Forgiving Woman – Rx A  Woman Who Holds  A Grudge

Empress/Queen of Cups – An Intuitive and Imaginative Woman/Kind-Hearted Woman  – Rx A Melodramatic Hysterical Woman/Cold-Hearted Woman

Empress/King of Cups – An Honorable Trustworthy Woman  – Rx A Double Crossing Immoral  Woman

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Empress & Major Arcana Card Pairing Mini Exercise

Empress & Minor Arcana Card Pairing Exercise – Wands

Empress & Minor Arcana Card Pairing Exercise – Cups

Empress & Minor Arcana Card Pairing Exercise – Swords

Empress & Minor Arcana Card Pairing Exercise – Pentacles – Extended  Version

The Empress Upright   Reversed

Making Connections Between Cards

Other Connecting Cards Content