The Empress and Three of Wands

Abundance and something already out in the world. The Empress is fertility in the broad sense: things growing because the conditions are right. The Three of Wands watches the ships that were sent. Together the tradition reads a venture with genuine conditions behind it, waiting rather than hoping.

Associated with a relationship in a growing phase, with the growth already underway rather than intended.

Expansion that has real substance under it. Frequently read where the wait is well founded.

The Empress does not hurry and neither card can be hurried. This pair reads impatience as the only genuine risk in it.