The faculty of consciousness of the Generation card builds on the mnemonic power of the High Priestess. The moon crescent under her foot symbolizes this. While memory only connects memory units, generation combines memories into contexts.
The woman in the picture is pregnant. She is the mother of all things. She is the power of consciousness that gave birth to the universe, solar systems, and planets. She is nature, too. And she generates your thoughts, imaginings, and desires.
Her second name is abundance. The wheat field in the foreground of the picture symbolizes the multiplying effect of this faculty of consciousness. Two trillion galaxies and the plethora of natural beings bear witness to her bounteous fertility. No doubt, this woman likes to show off.
Generation is like giving birth and, hence, a passive process. When an inspiration impregnates the mind, it initiates subconscious gestation processes that give birth to imagination. We have no say in the matter and can just watch as the image emerges in our minds.
In an astrological context, the woman in the Tarot card represents Venus, the goddess of motherly love. Her love is unconditional, like the sun, whose benevolent glow nurtures all life on our planet.
Psychologically, she is the mother of ideas, imaginings, desires, and thoughts. As such, she signifies creative imagination, which is the third-highest mental faculty after focus and openness to truth.
An auspicious Generation card calls for a creative mindset, constructiveness, and the exercise of creative, positive imagination.
An inauspicious Generation card may indicate an uncreative mindset, mediocrity, unconstructiveness, or negative imagination.
The Generation card illustrates the horizontal path that connects the spheres Wisdom (2’s) and Understanding (3’s) on the Tree of Life.
The starry crown stands for Wisdom, and the garden for Understanding and context.
This shows that Generation connects wisdom and contexts (3’s). That’s why ageless wisdom assigns the dualism of wisdom and folly to this card. Hence, an inauspicious Generation card may indicate contextless imagination, i.e., wild, random, or licentious imagination.
Mind the ancient epithet of Wisdom is the illuminating intelligence, and that of the Generation card is the luminous intelligence. Think of the woman in the Generation card as the High Priestess pregnant with an intentional idea from Chokmah. Like her, pregnant women glow.
The titles and the five core meanings of the Generation card are:
Enlightenment Tarot title: Generation
Traditional title: Empress
Power of consciousness: Generation
Constructive use: Constructiveness
Unconstructive use: Unconstructiveness
Auspicious state of mind: Euphoria
Inauspicious state of mind: Agitation
On the spiritual-intentional level, the Generation card signifies the use of creative imagination for enlightenment work.
On the creative-feely level, the Generation card represents the Muse, the patron of art and creativity, in particular, creative imagination. Related to feelings, she is Venus, the goddess of love and mother of all feelings.
On the intellectual level, the Generation card represents the origination of ideas and thoughts, i.e., philosophy.
On the bodily-practical level, the Generation card stands for organic growth, female fertility, reproduction, pregnancy, and childbirth.
More Attributions:
Number: 4
Letter: Daleth, meaning door (the door of creation)
Astrology: Venus
Color: Green
Chakra: the chakra in the throat