The Empress: A Beautiful Start to the New Year

"She's the Great Mother Goddess in her guise as Ceres/Demeter, who created the seasons as a symbol of the ebb and flow of human life. As Mother Nature, she governs the cycle of birth, Death, and rebirth. She sets our world in order and grants us the cornucopia of Earth's bounty.

She represents fertility, practicality, good luck, and success. Her intution and insight crosses genders. Her domain lies in emotions, feelings, inner promptings. In astrology, her mate is Venus, the embodiment of emotional love, sensual pleasure, and sexual passion.

Your life swells with abundance. You're a nurturer who takes in strays, eases other people's pain, and soothes their anxieties. Your openness and receptivity make you a good listener and an excellent counselor. Your home is warm, inviting, and filled with good food. It's also your sanctuary, your sacred place. The Empress often refers to your own mother or someone with maternal traits.

Romance: It's a fertile time for affairs of the heart. Your timing is impeccable, synchronicities proliferate, you're swept up in a sensual passion of a relationship.

Finances: It's a good time for investments. Buy that piece of property or that house you've had your eye on. The check really is in the mail, that raise you've been hoping for comes through, your debt is consolidated, financial obligations ease up. By embracing the practical aspects of everyday life, prosperity finds you.

Empowerment: Nurture all that you are, so that you can become all that you can be" (46).

New Years day I spent with Matt. It was the first night of a couple in a row that I spent the night. I didn't think that I could love him more than I do now but those couple of days were amazing. We did nothing really, but I realized that there are always surprises with him because I fell even more in love with him.

What a wonderful card to get the first day of the New Year! I believe that this card wasn't just meant for that day but as a message for the New Year, a telling of the energy for 2009. I really enjoy this card, except for the fertility part. I think that in my case, it just means that I have to nurture myself and things will fall into place.