Interesting pair.
The image on the King of Pentacles shows a ruler who is strong and sturdy. His clothes are embellished with gold coins, and above he's head are huge golden antlers also decorated with gold coins. He is leaning on a massive stone boulder, and holds a forging hammer in one hand with a large gold coin floating over the other hand. The keywords for this card are entrepreneur, forging, supportive, and successful.
The image on The Empress shows a beautiful woman lounging comfortably and confidently on a luxurious golden throne consisting of flowering plants and lushly growing vines, with her knees together and pointed toward the viewer's right. Her hair is the same color as her throne. Her body posture is relaxed and she seems aware of how good it feels to enjoy the pleasures of her physical senses. Her right hand is beginning to pull the white tunic she wears off of her shoulder and she allows her fingers to trail against her skin. Her left hand cradles a golden, perfectly ripe melon, a symbol of mothering and birth. Behind her head is a hologram of a diagram of the hormone Oxytocin. The keywords for this card are mothering, riches, pleasure, and sexuality.
The King of Pentacles of this deck is reliable, sturdy and successful, and he is a master at playing the long game and planning ahead. His forging hammer symbolizes his ability to create his own opportunities, his own wealth. He is relaxed and confident enough to lean on that huge boulder, someone who can be depended on during difficult times.
The Empress is a representation of the fertility and cycles of Nature, wild and free and beautiful. The Empress manifests fertility and growth of all kinds, and growth cannot happen without change. Thus she encourages me to let go of the need to dominate or control and instead embrace the pleasure to be had in experiencing life's experiences freely, and through love and honor rather that deceit and betrayal.
While we are dealing with The Empress, we are not dealing with her partner, The Emperor, but rather a segment of The Emperor. The four Kings can each be seen as a part of the powers and abilities of the Major Arcana card. The segment that our King of Pentacles controls is the stability he brings through being an expert caretaker and provider.
We have lots of Earth energies in these two cards. The Major Arcana Empress corresponds with the element of Earth, which gives her practicality, security, and fertility. Earth brings increased manifestations, including increased wealth, health, or practicality. Earth is one of the two elements that has a physical existence which can interact with our physical senses, and The Empress is certainly bringing that pleasure and sensuality. We also have some Air as well because the rank of King represents the element of Air. Air offers increased logic, intelligence, and clarity. Air may be intangible, but it can be affected by heat, cold, moisture or dryness. Temperature and humidity changes can bring movement to Air.
Earth and Air have nothing in common and within Elemental Dignities that means they weaken each other or at the very least, cancel each other out. Of course, each element has its own effects individually. Earth represents cold that binds and dry that shapes, and Air represents heat that separates and wet that adapts. This means my King of Pentacles represents the effects that Earth has on Air. Air is an element whose energies like to move; the energies of Earth are more solid. The King of Pentacles needs to be able to reconcile the Air energies which do not like the heavy slowness of Earth, and the Earth energies which do not like the restless and easily-moved Air. There is a solution here and it is the talent the King of Pentacles brings to my card pair today. This King is very able to use the resources at his disposal as King, such as growth, health and wealth, in order to manage the physical resources of his kingdom and to hold together the different peoples of his realm. Pairing this King with The Empress brings some really potent energies to the day!
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