The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
