Step 6 of 12 · Home, Kin and Belonging
The Empress
Why this step
The Empress treats the household as a kind of power. The entry names Frigg, whose domain was the hearth and the household, and calls the card abundance through tending: showing up again and again for something that does not pay off at once. Its reversed reading is the hearth grown too warm, care that tips into smothering, so that what is being tended cannot breathe.