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Woman

A woman is an adult human female, as we all know. She can be faked but never replaced. She was a girl, and now she’s a woman, as celebrated by John Lennon and Helen Reddy, in song.

This is an interesting card to choose. Why have you picked it? Maybe you are asking about a potential employer. What are they looking for? A woman.

If you are a man and have depression, is walking or medication better for you? The cards are taking a shortcut and telling you – you need a woman in your life.

XX Marks the Spot

Women have XX chromosomes. They also have ovaries, fallopian tubes, a uterus, vagina (Lady Garden) and vulva. A woman’s skeleton is different to a man’s. She has a wider pelvis and broader hips (child-bearing hips). She obviously has larger breasts, no matter how big a man’s moobs might be. A woman’s sex hormones, estrogen, rule her.

She can become pregnant, give birth and breastfeed. The female of the species is thus immediately associated with motherhood. Is this a woman who is a mother, could be a mother, can never be a mother or does not wish to be a mother? That question hovers above this card because it will tell you a lot about the issues at hand.

Menstruation and the menopause are uniquely female experiences. Those too, come with this card. They are the reality of a woman’s life.

Femininity

Femininity follows fashion. So does masculinity. Yet, some feminine traits are tied to biology and never change very much. Clothing which accommodates the female breasts. Or – clothing which accommodates the male genitals. Bras or codpieces! This card is telling you, you can’t really judge femininity, without looking to masculinity as its mirror.

Longevity

Women live longer than men, usually by 6-8 years. Beyond the immediate meaning of ‘woman’ as an adult human female, whose femininity tends to follow fashions – there is a broader symbolic meaning with this card.

You might ask ‘What is Paris all about?’ and be told ‘Woman.’ She is a city which outlasts the others. She is all about mothers, wives and mistresses. She is the capital of ever-changing fashion.

Equality

This card comes with questions about what is fair. What is equal. It could not be otherwise given the long history of patriarchy and sexism and the fight for women’s rights.

In astrology it is linked to Libra, the scales of justice. Also the scales of marriage and partnership.

Wife and husband. Girlfriend and boyfriend. Woman in The Modern Lenormand Oracle arrives with issues about sexism.

Much depends on where you are, when you ask the question. Afghanistan? Egypt? Pakistan? She – Woman – comes with issues.

Power

Women are under-represented in government in most countries. They hold up half the sky but do not have half the power.
Yet, women are powerful. Without them, nothing. So this card asks you to look at how powerful or powerless you feel, or how empowered or disempowered somebody (or something) is.