Energy 3: The Empress in The soule code

In The soule code, energy 3 is the Empress, the energy of growth, abundance and care. Where the Magician starts something, the Empress makes it flourish. People with a strong 3 often have a gift for turning a house into a home, an idea into a project and a project into a community.

The tarot Empress sits among wheat and flowing water, relaxed and fully present. She does not hurry the harvest. She tends the ground and trusts the season. This patient, generous attention is the heart of energy 3.

Strengths of energy 3

The Empress creates conditions in which things and people grow. She has taste, a feel for beauty and a warmth that makes others relax. She tends to be generous, and she tends to be good at it.

• Nurturing people, projects and places so they thrive
• Creating beauty in a room, a meal, a piece of writing or a plan
• Enjoying the senses and helping others do the same
• Bringing people together in a way that feels easy

The shadow side

Care can become control. When the 3 is out of balance it gives too much, expects to be needed and quietly keeps score. It may also overindulge, using comfort to avoid something harder.

• Overgiving and then feeling unseen
• Smothering instead of supporting
• Using food, shopping or comfort to soothe stress
• Staying with something that is pleasant but no longer alive

Energy 3 in relationships

A 3 is warm, loyal and physical in love. Partners feel looked after. The lesson is to receive as well as give, to say what you need before resentment builds, and to let a partner take care of you in their own way.

Energy 3 and money

The Empress attracts abundance when she creates something people want to live with: beautiful things, good food, a welcoming space, a creative service, a product with care in it. Money often comes through relationships and reputation. The money lesson of the 3 is to price your work as high as the care you put into it and to stop giving it away.

Energy 3 in each position of your chart

• As your personality, you seem warm and approachable. People tell you things easily and feel better after talking with you.
• As your talent, you were born with a gift for making things grow and for making them beautiful.
• As your material task, you learn about work and money by creating something people want to be part of.
• As your karmic task, the lesson is to give without losing yourself and to receive without guilt.
• As your core, you feel at home when you are nurturing something: a family, a garden, a studio, a group.
• In your karmic tail, there is an old pattern of caring too much or too little for yourself. Practice means balance.
• As your love line, you need warmth, touch and a partner who appreciates what you give.
• As your money channel, income comes through creating, hosting and nurturing. Make your care visible and charge for it.

Energy 3 as your purpose by age

• As your personal purpose, from about 20 to 40, you create a life and a home that feel like yours, and you learn what you want to grow.
• As your social purpose, from 40 to 60, you nurture a family, a team or a community, and you set its tone.
• As your spiritual purpose, after 60, you become the generous elder: care without the need to be thanked.

Signs it is in balance, and signs it is not

• In balance: you give from fullness and you receive without guilt.
• In balance: you enjoy beauty, rest and your own company.
• Out of balance: you give until you feel resentful.
• Out of balance: you cling to comfort that no longer feeds you.

How to work with energy 3

• Do one small thing each day only because it is beautiful or pleasant.
• Before you offer help, ask whether you are being asked.
• Name your price for something you usually give away.
• Rest as seriously as you work.

To find where the Empress sits in your own chart, calculate your Destiny Matrix. Her partner in the sequence is the Emperor, who gives growth a structure.