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Tarot
The Fool, The Magician, The High Priestess, The Empress, The Emperor, The Hierophant, The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength, The Hermit, The Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, The Moon, The Sun, Judgement, The World.
Wands Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King.
Cups Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King.
Swords Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King.
Pentacles Ace 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King.
Aces, Twos, Threes, Fours, Fives, Sixes, Sevens, Eights, Nines, Tens, Pages, Knights, Queens, Kings

A tarot card. Position 4 in the Major Arcana.

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Description

Rider Waite Deck

Image:Emperor.jpg

He has a form of the Crux ansata for his sceptre and a globe in his left hand. He is a crowned monarch--commanding, stately, seated on a throne, the arms of which axe fronted by rams' heads. He is executive and realization, the power of this world, here clothed with the highest of its natural attributes. He is occasionally represented as seated on a cubic stone, which, however, confuses some of the issues. He is the virile power, to which the Empress responds, and in this sense is he who seeks to remove the Veil of Isis; yet she remains virgo intacta.

It should be understood that this card and that of the Empress do not precisely represent the condition of married life, though this state is implied. On the surface they stand for mundane royalty, uplifted on the seats of the mighty; but above this there is the suggestion of another presence. They signify also--and the male figure especially--the higher kingship, occupying the intellectual throne. Hereof is the lordship of thought rather than of the animal world. Both personalities, after their own manner, are "full of strange experience," but theirs is not consciously the wisdom which draws from a higher world. The Emperor has been described as will in its embodied form, but this is only one of its applications, and as an expression of virtualities contained in the Absolute Being--but this is fantasy.

Meanings

  • self consciousness, reason, sight
  • Accept the wisdom and authority of the superself.
  • self-control
  • order, structure
  • mundane authority in all its guises
  • a father, the internalized father figure
  • a man in his role of as patriarchal head of a household, or as leader

Reversed Meaning

  • abused authority
  • reason over everything else
  • rigid structures

Correspondences

  • Links Chokmah to Tiphareth as path number 15 of the Tree of Life
  • Colour red
  • Aries in the zodiac
  • The direction Northeast (from the Sepher Yetzirah)
  • Yetziratic Intelligence - the Constituting intelligence
  • Musical note C (Paul Case)
  • Hebrew letter HEBREW:Heh meaning Window and also the number 5
  • Organic Time - Deoxyribonucleic Acid The linking of hydrocrabon chain molecules into a divisible and replicating spiral form. The original architecture for evolution. <i/>In Time, acknoweldge the awareness of the immanent Self.</i>

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Resources

  • Waite, A.E. (1911) The Pictoral Key to the Tarot: Being Fragments of a Secret Tradition Under the Veil of Divination. London: Rider.
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