Lessons from the Empress
A Tarot Workbook for Self-Care and Creative Growth
The Empress tarot card is the key to understanding how creative expression is the foundation of true self-care. Our authentic self, this abundant space, is not something we go find—it’s something we create. Lessons from the Empress will guide you on an exploration of the five phases of self-care: Major Arcana —spiritual self-care; the Wands — self-awareness; the Swords — self-expression; the Cups — self-love; the Pentacles — self-confidence.
In Lessons from the Empress, with the Empress as your guide, you’ll learn how to practice self-care and self-discovery in several ways:
- See the Empress as a metaphor for your personal journey
- Get in touch with who you are at your core
- Take an active role in protecting your own well-being and happiness
- Use easy-to-follow magical rituals, tarot spreads, and creativity exercises to embrace your true self and express that self to the world
'Lessons from the Empress offers a hands-on guidebook to better mental and spiritual wellness. When the world needs these lessons the most, Snow and Plouff come through for us all.' — Benebell Wen, author of Holistic Tarot
Cassandra Snow is the two-time Weiser author of Queering the Tarot and Queering Your Craft. They have been a tarot reader in some capacity since they were eighteen years old and have gone pro for the last decade. Their work includes teaching and writing about tarot and witchcraft as well as doing readings. Cassandra is also calling on their BA in Theatre Arts and Humanities from Waldorf College for this project, and the decade-and-a-half experience they have leading creative teams as a theatre director, producer, and show curator with Gadfly Theatre Productions.
Siri Vincent Plouff is the brain behind the radical Heathenry podcast, Heathen’s Journey. Siri runs several flagship teaching programs, such as the annual Witchcraft Immersion, which is a witchcraft apprenticeship program, and Radical Runes. They have been a practicing witch for nearly twenty years and have been reading tarot and runes professionally for six.
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