The face suggests that of a dark woman, whose qualities might be summed up in the idea of greatness of soul; she has also the serious cast of intelligence; she contemplates her symbol and may see worlds therein.
the plate, in waite's words · the painted card will hang here in time
Dark and grave-faced, the Queen contemplates her own pentacle so fixedly that Waite proposes she "may see worlds therein." Opulence, generosity, and security fill his compiled reading, though what the image itself shows is quieter than any of those words, a single figure's private absorption in the suit's material sign rather than any public display of the wealth it names.
a young page · the keeper's voice pass on the note is still to come