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She holds the most elaborate cup in the deck and looks directly at it. The Queen is emotional intelligence: feeling deeply without drowning in it, and being the person others can bring things to.
Reversed
Reversed, you may be absorbing everyone else's weather until you can't find your own — or shutting the door completely, which is the same problem from the other side.
If this is your card this month
Whose feelings are you carrying that aren't yours?
A card is a prompt rather than a forecast. It doesn't know what will happen, and the useful part is what you do with the question it hands you. We make that case at more length in not a prediction, a mirror.