One of the most beautiful Arcanes of the Tarot is the Empress, Nature in its glamour and beauty, Venus. The pleasure to live.  Seduction. Happiness.
 
 

Inner Travel
The Empress

Delight, delight yourself to feel the presence
of the Empress,
she who governs by her beauty
and by the love of life.
Feel her presence in you,
this creative happiness,
this happiness Without a Cause.
Suddenly you are in the jungle.
The sun is shining, the sunrise,
and its oblique rays cross the leaves of the tall trees.
You can feel the warmth of the sun caress your face,
feel the caress of the sun, feel the sun hug your body,
feel the sun in your intelligence, in your soul.
The sun loves you.
You love the sun and the sun loves you.
A light breeze comes from the sea.
The breeze comes from the sea to caress your face, your arms, your body.
The sea loves you,
the sea sent the breeze to speak to you.
A mysterious happiness in you
admires the beauty of the trees.
The trees are beautiful.
The trees dressed themselves of beauty for you.
The trees love you.
The trees call the birds and the birds come to sing,
the birds are singing for you.
A nightingale thinks you are a tree and pauses
on your shoulder.
Comes to sing on your shoulder.
You can feel Venus' presence,
the Empress'presence everywhere.
Now she comes with the clouds and
a delicious rain begins to fall.
The nightingale goes to an hidding-place,
yes he calls you to go under an oak tree.
The rain is dancing.
Dancing, the rain goes away,
giving a rainbow to you.
The perfume of the wet earth comes to greet you
and you greet the earth;
In the grass a little stone is shining.
You look at the little stone with pleasure
and the little stone answers.
Your soul feels the answers, yes,
the little stone felt your praise
and send love to you.
The little stone is someone,
she loves you.
Now the breeze is coming from the forest,
loaded of vegetable fragrances,
she comes from the forest to caress
your face, your intelligence, your sensibility.
She whispers to you,
she whispers the smell of the leaves and of the sap.
The vegetable life loves you.
The breeze whispers in the immensity that you are,
remembers the immensity that you are.
And you feel:
"The Universe is my father,
the Universe is my mother,
since billions of years the Universe is my father,
the Universe is my mother,"
The Universe loves you.
The Universe loves
the unforeseeable mystery that you are.
In the immensity of space and time
there is only one you.
Only one.
You are precious, the Universe loves you.
You begin to perceive in your body
a stupendous intelligence,
the amazing intelligence of your body,
the magic of your body.
You perceive the billions of years hidden
in the divine night of your subconscious.
You perceive the infinite being you are.
The music loves you, loves you.
The music of the Universe loves you for ever.