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The Emperor Tarot Card Meaning
The Emperor is card IV of the Major Arcana. Upright it speaks of authority, structure, stability; reversed, of rigidity, domination. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's Jungian archetype and its astrological correspondence.
Major ArcanaFireAries
Upright meaning
“Stability, power, protection, realization; a great person; aid, reason, conviction; also authority and will”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911
Keywords: authority, structure, stability, leadership, discipline.
Reversed meaning
“Benevolence, compassion, credit; also confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911
Keywords: rigidity, domination, loss of control, stubbornness.
The archetype
The Father archetype — order, boundary, authority; the structuring principle of the ego.
Astrology
Correspondence: Aries.
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