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The Rider-Waite-Smith Queen of Pentacles, mundanely expresses her fertility, with a lush rose arbor above her Throne. The throne showing stone motifs of a goat head, acknowledging the sign of Capricorn and a bulls head implying her fecund earthly-nature. With a Sun hat, Veiled in greenery and clothed in the Red of Binah, she passively holds a golden Pentacle in her lap, implying wealth. These are not the only hints at her dynamic power, for the hare at the bottom right represents the Mother Goddess Power of the Greek goddess Hera or the European goddess Eostre (Easter), the German goddess Erda or the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar (pronounced-Easter). This is the persona of Gaea to the modern pagans. Here we have Earth, in all her fertility, and fecund growth. The tulips at her feet represent loving royalty. Beware: at her worst she can untrusting and a source of some various devious plots and plans, generating bad feelings among friends and co-workers.

The Secretive Mother.

The authority of the Tarot Queens originate in Binah, the Third Sephiroth who is the "will to form" and is a force that is imposed on the Pure Fiery Energy of Chokmah. She is known as Understanding, for an idea, once understood, can be molded into manifestation, i.e. formed.

Qabalistically, these Queens are not Persons, but States of Conscious Energy, called "Beings" (Sephiroth) in the philosophy of Qabalah and are parts of the Divine Universal Collective Unconscious, meaning the deep Imagination, The Creatrix, where images are formed. Images are the only way to realize these deep inner layers of Mind and "that" before Mind; Before Mind, is a "vessel" and/or womb, of magnetic energy, there was only Kether a "no-thing" whose first invention of thought and/or "word of god", was "Eheieh" which translated into English means, "I Will Be". You are the being/image that is fulfilling that command. Therefore, the Queens of Tarot, can represent a core personality of a Soul.

Binah is the 3rd Sephiroth on the Tree of Life, in the upper part called the Supernal Triangle, she is the essence of Womb, and I often call this state of Mind a "Womb with a View", because She conceives by viewing and understanding. The True Mind (not the brain) communicates in image, not words. Therefore, your persona is an image, and not words. The lesser ego, is built of words, and therefore, a fantasy of man-made identity. You are not made of words but of The Greater Understanding of Self. You are made of Spirit's Will to Force and Will To Form. Hence, to "Above all things, know thyself", requires you to tare down the Tower of Babel that are words, and see yourself through the eyes of the Great Creatrix whom loved you into being.

The Queens all represent the Water in each suit; therefore, the Queen of Pentacles represents Water of Primal Earth. Water being the symbol for Intuition, Emotions and Consciousness and Earth being manifestation. Queens are enthroned in the Element of Consciousness, as Will To Form and Enclose Energy( by realization and understanding) to bring forth the Will to Force of the King. She develops that force into information and/or in-Form-Action. As emotive-consciousness does to idea (I Dea-is Greek for "I Goddess").

The Jungian Tarot-Queen of Pentacles, is based on Jung's psychology and not the western mysteries. This Jungian Queen, represents a woman who is economical in the extreme. Always trying to get the greatest value at the least cost, she is very cautious how she handles money. In personal relationships, she is wary about letting people into her private world. Being a selfish persona, she seeks business success and believes the goal justifies the means. Her desire to never lose control, contributes to the fact that she never wants people to know exactly what she is feeling or thinking. Hence, she reflects a sense of insecurity so deeply ingrained that some might think her suffering from borderline paranoia. At best, she is a very astute business woman, a good mother, and provider, who herself may have come from money.

When thrown during a reading, the Queen of Pentacles represents an archetypal personality that is:

• A person interested in physical nutrition and health.
• A shedding of poor eating habits for those of  a new diet.
• A shedding of old habits, or even the purchasing of new clothes.
• The querent does all things she can do well and it will be fruitful
• One of a high level of compassion, nurturing abilities. loving physical life and all it has to offer.
• One who is exceptionally procreative and nurturing in the nature of Mothering.
• Power of practical wisdom on the physical level and in the inner world, applied spiritual wisdom .
• A dark woman of great heart and serious cast of intelligence.
• Opulence
• Generosity
• Also implies presents from a rich relative or a rich and happy marriage for a young man.
• Erda, the Teutonic Mother Earth seen as a warm an nurturing deity.

If reversed it implies:

• Embitterment.
• Hardening.
• Infertility.
• Deviousness. 

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