L'Imperatore

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Il significato principale di L'Imperatore è Stabilire ordine e regole. Al dritto, solitamente indica Autorità, struttura, figura paterna, logica, regole. Simboleggia la costruzione ; rovesciata, potrebbe suggerire Tirannia, rigidità, mancanza di disciplina, abuso di potere. Può indicare un pre.

Immagini della carta

Un maestoso anziano siede su un trono di pietra ornato con teste di ariete, su uno sfondo di cieli rossi e montagne brulle. Indossa un'armatura sotto una veste rossa e tiene in mano uno scettro e una sfera, simboli di potere.

Significato al dritto

Autorità, struttura, figura paterna, logica, regole. Simboleggia la costruzione di ordine e basi solide, il raggiungimento del successo attraverso la disciplina e la leadership.

Significato invertito

Tirannia, rigidità, mancanza di disciplina, abuso di potere. Può indicare un prepotente bisogno di controllo o, al contrario, debolezza e completa mancanza di risolutezza.

Amore, carriera, denaro e crescita

Amore

Innamorato, L'Imperatore indica Stabilire ordine e regole. Rileggilo confrontandolo con il modo in cui si comporta effettivamente la relazione e con ciò che scegliete entrambi.

Carriera

In materia di carriera, L'Imperatore indica Stabilire ordine e regole. Inizia individuando quali risorse controlli e quale sarà la tua prossima mossa.

Soldi

In materia di soldi, L'Imperatore indica Stabilire ordine e regole. Non considerare una lettura simbolica come una conclusione di investimento: segui i fatti, il budget e la tua tolleranza al rischio.

Crescita personale

Per la crescita personale, L'Imperatore indica Stabilire ordine e regole. Annota la domanda che solleva, quindi trasformala in un'azione che puoi effettivamente verificare.

Sì o no

Diritto

Sì

Rovesciata

No

Questa è la nostra lettura veloce, basata sulla direzione in cui tende il significato della carta. Le tradizioni non sono d'accordo sulle singole carte, e un "Forse" deve essere valutato rispetto alla posizione nello spread e alla situazione reale piuttosto che essere preso come una risposta di una sola parola.

Testo originale di Waite (1911)

Simbolismo interiore (originale)

He has a form of the Crux ansata for his scepter and a globe in his left hand. He is crowned monarch—commanding, stately, seated on a throne, the arms of which are 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, as I have indicated, 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 (a) will in its embodied form, but this is only one of its applications, and (b) as an expression of virtualities contained in the Absolute Being—but this is fantasy.

Significato originale al dritto

Stability, power, protection, realization; a great person; aid, reason, conviction; also authority and will.

Significato originale invertito

Benevolence, compassion, credit; also confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity.

Citato da A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), illustrato da Pamela Colman Smith. Il testo è di pubblico dominio.

Origini del mito e dei simboli

The rams' heads on the throne are Aries; the sceptre in his hand is an Egyptian ankh. The nineteenth-century taste for Egypt stayed on the card.

Documented imagery

Attested by surviving objects or texts

He and the Empress are a pair, but not a marriage

In the early decks the Emperor and Empress are a paired image of secular office. Waite goes out of his way to note that the two cards "do not precisely represent the condition of married life, though this state is included therein"; they are rather the higher kingship on the intellectual throne. Reading the pair straight off as parents or as husband and wife takes a Renaissance diagram of office for a diagram of the family.

Fonte The paired sovereign images of early Italian tarot; Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911, The Emperor

Esoteric correspondence

A sourced traditional claim, but constructed inside an occult system

Rams' heads mean Aries

Waite states that the arms of the throne are fronted by rams' heads. The ram is the sign of Aries, and the Golden Dawn attribution for the Emperor is indeed Aries (Hebrew letter Heh); the ruler of Aries is Mars — Roman Mars, counterpart of Greek Ares. The whole register of initiating, issuing orders and imposing order by force follows down this chain.

Fonte Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911, The Emperor; Golden Dawn Book T zodiacal attributions

The ankh and "he who seeks to remove the Veil of Isis"

The sceptre in his hand Waite calls a Crux ansata — the cross with a handle, which is to say the Egyptian ankh, the sign of life. In the same paragraph he writes that the Emperor is "he who seeks to remove the Veil of Isis; yet she remains virgo intacta." Both are traces of the nineteenth-century occult taste for Egypt: Egyptian signs borrowed as a general vocabulary of symbols, not a claim that this card came from Egypt — Waite states that distinction very plainly in the Wheel of Fortune entry.

Fonte Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911, The Emperor; the ankh is the Egyptian sign of life

Modern reading

Popular only since the twentieth century; unrelated to where the card came from

The father archetype arrives after Jung

Reading the Emperor as the father archetype, as patriarchy, uses the vocabulary of twentieth-century depth psychology. The reading works well in practice, and it does connect to an office that lays down rules. But archetypal psychology is a Jungian construction, and has nothing to do with the people who painted this card in the fifteenth century.

Fonte Modern popular reading; the concept of the archetype comes from Jungian writing

Scritto da BESTAROT, non citato da fonti storiche. Ogni affermazione è contrassegnata da quanto bene è dimostrata; gli strati interpretativi moderni sono utili per la lettura, ma non costituiscono l’origine storica della carta.

Studia il tema: Mito e origini dei simboli (Accademia capitolo 6)