Just sketching out the Emperor makes my skin crawl. This "man" sits on this stone throne - very uncomfortable - no cushion - and he leans slightly to the left (The Past) - his eyes are to the left therefore he is not present - he is in fear - rehashing the past, because hindsight is 20/20 and trying to formulate the future from the past. Good Luck! Just creating more of the same...
The Intellect
He represents the Intellect which is mankind's greatest detriment because it plans for the worst case scenario using limited in-formation. And it mixes it up with the Divine Masculine. This is a combination of the Divine Masculine with the Intellect and therefore represents a shattering of that divinity.
The intellect has no faith - it has fear - and that is why the solutions of the intellect always cause harm because they are always about getting over on others rather than being of service in faith. Since we are all connected - getting over on ourselves only harms ourselves down the road, if not immediately.
Mother Nature
The Empress is Mother Nature and the Emperor is red, scorched, fear-based assholicness that we presently call "capitalism" but which is really about THEFT and getting over on one's fellows while looking good in the process.
The Empress could be the mother of the Emperor rather than his wife - because he could be the angry Mama's boy who sets out to destroy his mom because he didn't like the attention she gave others or because he had no father figure in his life - since Pan is not represented here in the cards.
Gold Crown, Rams heads, World, Staff
The Emperor wears a heavy gold crown, a red cloak hiding the fact that he is wearing armor covering his whole body.
The Emperor is clad in steel armor. This corresponds to iron and steel, which are the metals of Mars. The armor implies that he has waged battles and won. Harnessing of metal orr was taught to humanity by Nephilum "god" Azazel - which is relevant here because of the "Ram" or goat which has been demonized into Baphomet because in the Jewish Holiday, Yom Kippur, a goat is sacrificed to Azazel, to atone for the sins of the Jews.
Nephilim
The Jews interacted with the Watchers and the Nephilim which may be why they are made into the perpetual Scapegoat of the Dark Occult..
Armoring
He has a beard which hides his facial expression. He holds a replica of the world in his right hand and the Ankh Cross in his left. He has manifested in the world what he put forward in his right hand... a burnt scorched world.
Ankh Staff
An ankh is a sacred symbol which alludes to the manifestation which occurs by combining divine opposite forces, such as male and female energies.
The Emperor is commingling the natural power of the Ram with the intellectual power of fear that is destructive and leads to the Devil eventually... The exoteric reduction of The Devil is 6 (5+1) but the esoteric reduction is 5-1 which equals 4...The Emperor equals The Devil through subversion. 1 (Magician) plus 5 (Hierophant) is 15 - The Devil. That makes sense because a man with access to the natural forces of Power along with a man who acts as an intermediary of God - is satan, himself, convincing ingore-ant people that he has more power than he actually has.
The orange sky behind the Emperor is the sky of destruction - just as Mars was once a lush planet like Earth - now the atmosphere has been destroyed just like Earth's atmosphere is being destroyed now.
Gray Hair...Maturity or?
The Emperor's gray hair means that he has lost his "jing" in his kidneys and liver. His life force is drained from him due to too much Anger and Fear which are brought on by worrying and conniving about the future, since he is not in the present.
The 4 Rams
are a nod to Mars and Aries but he is a conman - there should be a card for Pan, if that was the case. The Emperor stole his power from idea of masculinity, but he is a fake. Since all the cards in this deck are Caucasian, that means that this is the story of the Nephilim taking power from Nature and ruling over hue-mans.
His four posts are the Ram's head -
There are four rams’ heads carved into the stone throne; two on the armrests, and two on the back of the throne. A fifth ram can be found stitched into the Emperor’s cloak, over his left shoulder. The ram is the symbol for the zodiac sign Aries, and we are to understand that this card is symbolic of everything that Aries represents.
Alien-blue
The sleeves under his robes introduce a blue color that has not yet been introduced in the cards yet until now which proves he is an "alien" to this environment. This blue never shows up again in any of the cards. The inner tunic of all the other cards preceding this card has been white which is native to the cards environment - and this color of blue is artificial in this environment.
Blue usually represents the third eye - Intuition, but in this case, it is false, therefore it is made up knowing in the intellect.
Wave Mountains
The mountains are oceans who's frequency is slowed down to become rock. It's all about frequency.
This is a message that we can conquer them by raising our frequency as they are conquering us by lowering our frequency.
Void
The black under his chair does not exist in Nature - it is the Void, but not as in birth, but as in evil - it is the Corona - creating the shape of the Black Sun, and including the symbol of Libra - The Setting Sun - the Temple of Set but nodding toward "Justice", The Emperor believes he has the right to decide what is just and right...
Evil Blackness devoid of Light...behind his legs...
it reminds me of a black of evil that I experienced in the shadows on a haunted road in New Jersey Clinton Road in West Milford, New Jersey.
Tiny River
A small river flows in the background, behind the throne. Water is a symbol of the feminine and harbinger of life, necessary even in this masculine environment for life to survive and propagate. I guess that's why they are controlling it using chemtrails...
Now, when I look at the original Rider Waite - I see the blue is not like that in this card - but the rocks still look like waves. In the BOTA deck however, there is a lot more of Mother Nature... so not sure what that's about... I am sticking with my gut feeling that I got when I copied this card. It is the Exoteric deck where they are using symbology to put us under mind control which does not exist in the Esoteric Deck.
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