Myrrha
The Deviant Moon Empress is a spirit of fertility and nature sitting in a flower garden at night. Red flowers bloom and fill the night with their intoxicating scent. When you take life beyond what is merely necessary or useful and invest what you are doing with a lavish sense of beauty and sensuality, this card is in play.
The Empress's multiple breasts suggest giving, nurturing, abundance. They remind me of depictions of the Roman goddess Diana that are based on a cult statue at Ephesus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fontana_di_Diana_Efesina-Tivoli,_Villa_d'Este.jpg
The Empress's feet are shaped like a bird's. In Babylonian mythology only deities connected with death and the underworld have bird feet. Lilith is usually depicted with bird feet and perhaps this Empress shares some of Lilith’s dark, seductive qualities. Life and abundance are not possible without death and the spirit of nature must have a destructive aspect as well.
Her crown is similar to the headdress worn by Ishtar, the Queen of Heaven in Babylonian mythology. The blue color and gold accents seem celestial.
I love how she is sitting with her tail wrapped around her leg and one of her arms. She is perfectly comfortable with herself and her body, comfortable with her own strangeness. To me, her tail seems reptilian which indicates a connection with earlier stages of evolution and the most primal of our drives and desires. The flower growing from her tail shows her power to create beauty, abundance and love out of these drives.
The Empress's multiple breasts suggest giving, nurturing, abundance. They remind me of depictions of the Roman goddess Diana that are based on a cult statue at Ephesus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fontana_di_Diana_Efesina-Tivoli,_Villa_d'Este.jpg
The Empress's feet are shaped like a bird's. In Babylonian mythology only deities connected with death and the underworld have bird feet. Lilith is usually depicted with bird feet and perhaps this Empress shares some of Lilith’s dark, seductive qualities. Life and abundance are not possible without death and the spirit of nature must have a destructive aspect as well.
Her crown is similar to the headdress worn by Ishtar, the Queen of Heaven in Babylonian mythology. The blue color and gold accents seem celestial.
I love how she is sitting with her tail wrapped around her leg and one of her arms. She is perfectly comfortable with herself and her body, comfortable with her own strangeness. To me, her tail seems reptilian which indicates a connection with earlier stages of evolution and the most primal of our drives and desires. The flower growing from her tail shows her power to create beauty, abundance and love out of these drives.