TAROT

The Hanged Man and The Empress (12/3)

The archetypal system of Tarot is ancient. Although records link its beginnings to the
Middle Ages, there are indications of its origination occurring much earlier – perhaps even
by thousands of years and from distant civilizations. The Tarot represents and reflects (it is)
the story of life: each card is a micro-story of the profound, deeply-embedded and
commonly-lived experiences of our human journey. Your core Tarot encoding is unveiled
by adding your individual birth numbers together and reducing them down: in this case,
your encoded major arcana Tarot archetype is #3 The Empress. Expounding on this
archetype, your birth numbers have also been added in such a way (a system developed
by the Amberstones) as to bring forward one (and sometimes two) other major arcana
archetypes that also live within you. Together, these symbiotic fields of energy create an
additional dynamic and unveil the complexities of your Soul Print’s distinct journey.
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You are the energetic archetypal combination

of The Hanged Man (#12 in the Tarot) and The
Empress (#3 in the Tarot). As such, you
represent a dynamic quality-set and a duality
that emerges from its coupling and its
energetic feedback loop.

This emergent archetype and energy signature

is one that represents your life story and your
specific path to navigate. As with all
encodings, inherent with Hanged Man-
Empress lies an undeniable growth journey.

In addition to the data below, please absorb the imagery on each card – the similarities
and the differences – as the symbols provide infinite information about your encodings.

Written by Ruth Ann and Wald Amberstone: “The Hanged Man and The Empress have in
common a concern with birth and life — physical birth and mortal life, and spiritual rebirth
and immortal life. Venus (Empress) is born from the waves of the sea (elemental water). The
Hanged Man is born from the womb of The Empress. Being driven at birth from a vessel of
blood matches in intensity rebirth by the immersion of baptism in a body of water. The
experience of entering the world at birth is equaled by the experience of withdrawing from
the world through meditation.

“They contrast as detachment vs. involvement, relaxation vs. contraction, tranquility vs.
turbulence, concern with simplicity vs. preoccupation with details. The Hanged Man is
focused on purifying, cleansing and deepening himself. Distancing himself from the details
of creation, he offers the experience of enlightened detachment and inner illumination to

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whoever is willing to share it. The Empress is actively creative, nurturing, protective, and has
an intense, immediate, hands-on connection with all her creations.

“Unintegrated and unrealized, The Hanged Man can be self-involved and insensitive, self-
indulgent and passive, depressed and addictive, grandiose and impractical, lonely and in
need of support. The Empress can be domineering and meddlesome, small-minded and
abusive, melodramatic and possessive, demanding attention and feeling abandoned.

“Together they are generous, loyal and protective to a fault, and they can be creative
and original to the point of genius. They raise caring, selflessness, love and devotion to
transcendent levels.”

You are an embodiment of the “both-and” of these archetypes, as well as the pinnacle
point and “in-between” of them – the resultant entity – created by their relationship. You
are here to evolve the cooperative, symbiotic relationship between these archetypes.

When understood, accepted and allowed to flow naturally, the Hanged Man-Empress will
lead your soul where it wants to go – toward internal depth of experience and outward
expression of maturity, nurturance and brilliance. It is when you see, understand and
approach this path from your natural place of wholeness that your journey will able to be
harnessed so it can unfold optimally and with least effort.  

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