Lincoln as the Emperor

Feb 18, 2007 at 8:19 PM
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The Emperor sits on his stone throne representing the Empire which he loves, guides, and for which he sacrifices.

To rule, one must be dominant, courageous, and ready to sieze opportunity.

The Emperor

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What do you know, another synchronicity. Today, I was mapping out a friend of mine's natal associations with the tarot and the paths on the tree of life. He was aries of course and I used this same association of Lincoln with the Emperor card.

Here are my comments on the Emperor:

"Aries card is the Emperor. The 15th path on the tree. From chokmah to tipharet. 5 is the value of the card and is a variation of 23 2+3=5. It bridges to the Abyss or Daath. (I would call this the primordial womb, the portal of contact with prater-human intelligence, the entry way) Chokmah is the sphere of understanding and Tipharet is the sphere of Beauty and solar Gods. The path that bridges functional understanding with the astral world. Five is associated with breath, inspiration and the sacred and hidden female Mysteries; and the five vowels of the language are regarded as the focus of spiritual forces. These vital, animating forces are centres of good and evil, order and chaos; they are forces of change and evolution, and they link us with the first creation of our world. The symbol for five is the Pentagram. (think adam kadmon, davincis illustration of man, the star) Symmetry. The letter which represents The Emperor's path in the Hebrew alphabet is Hé (Window). Through this window the fiery Sun of the Source shines down on worldly matter to create Beauty and to generate life. Through it, too, the Light of the Mother flows with pregnant power to instill in that life the embryo of love and inspiration. Hé is the path of worldly creation, of new beginnings, of birth and of novices. It is another threshold fraught, as any birth must be, with particular dangers. On this path, the journeyer who is wise will heed "the voice of his inner monitor" and trust the divine spirit within.
he Emperor's astrological sign is the Fire sign, Aries (the Ram). He is the embodiment of active, male, generative energies (the sperm which fertilizes the ovum), which are like thunder and lightning - dangerous and electrifying but also beautiful; or like the fierce flame and the warm glow of fire. He is alchemical Sulphur (golden and energising, but also corrosive) which works on mutable matter to change, fix and balance volatile mercurial energies.

He is the emblem of male authority in our world: he is Father, Husband, Law-maker. I always see him as the military man. I also think of Abraham Lincoln or Lincoln's Memorial when I see this card. The position in which The Emperor's body is shown in traditional Tarot packs demonstrates this. His head and arms form an equilateral triangle (which represents the supernal triangle of numbers 1, 2 and 3) below which his crossed legs represent the bisected lines of the number 2. Together, a triangle surmounting a cross forms the alchemical sign for Fire, and the numbers thus represented add up to five. Also in the traditional Tarot packs, The Emperor is shown with the sceptre, orb and shield which represent worldly power. So, since four is the number of worldly stability (represented by a closed square), The Emperor represents strength, stability, and the imposition of form and limits, he creates his world according to the laws of reason. He sets limits and enforces rules and boundaries: restores order from chaos, establishes morality and self-discipline, and shapes the practical pursuit of creative goals.

The Path of the Emperor is one of Illuminating Intelligence.

Aries was originally when the year started over. Druid New Year.

Constellation Aries

Aries is devoid of prominent deep sky objects, and has only a few stars of interest, notably the triangle made up of the principal stars in the constellation. The ecliptic runs through Aries, so planets can often be seen in this area of the sky.

Aries constellation in the years approximately 2,000 years before the birth of Christ was the position of the equinox, previously the position held by Taurus. The change was due to the precession of the axis and became evident throughout the mythologies of several areas as the cult of the ram overtook that of the bull. The constellation was at one time called the Prince of the Zodiac. This slow precession has since shifted the sun's position from Aries to Pisces.

Mesopotamia:

The Sumerians called the sun, Subat, meaning the Ancient Sheep or Ram and the planets the Celestial Herd. The bright star in Aries, Hamal, meaning the lamb, represented one of the stars in the Scimitar, a celestial weapon that protected against the Seven Diabolic Spirits of the Storm. The Babylonian priest Berossos who lived around 275 BC said that the world was created when the Sun was in the Ram.

Egypt:

The Eqyptians associated Aries with the god Amon Ra. During the time of Dionysus and his campaigns in Africa, his troops were traveling through a sandy desert. They ran out of water and were worn out struggling through the sand. A ram appeared before them, rose up in the air and landed behind a dune. When scouts followed the animal, they came upon a spring of water, but no ram. Dionysus ordered the building of a temple to Zeus Amon on the spot where the spring rose. A likeness of the ram was placed in the temple and the ram was placed in the heavens in a position of great importance.

The cult of Aries had its beginning here since its position at the zenith coincided with the rising of Sirius in the east and the flooding of the Nile. The Temple of Amon-Ra at Karnak bore the likeness of the supreme sun-god with the horns of a ram. The road to Karnak was formed from the wings of two granite sphinxes bearing the head of Aries.

Aries has none of the brightest stars, so a little patience and persistence is required to learn to locate it. Look to the east in the evening and find the dim clustered stars of the Pleiades and, below them, the companion cluster in a "V" shape, the Hyades. The bright reddish star at the end of the "V" is Aldebaron, brightest star in Taurus, the Bull. Let Aldebaron be the beginning of an arc and extend it on through the Pleiades (it is about one clenched fist at arm's length between Aldebaron and the Pleiades).

Keep on going about 25 degrees (two clenched fists at arms length) where the two brightest stars of Aries, close together (two finger-widths at arms length apart), will form the West End of the arc. Notice the dimmer star located just beyond the second star of the pair in Aries; let this dim star form the very tip of the arc we have described. Now, back along the arc, about midway between the Pleiades and the brightest star of Aries, there is still another very dim star belonging to Aries. The four stars you have found, two of them considerably brighter than the others, are all there is to see of Aries without optical aid.

It is not the brightness of the stars of Aries that makes them worth knowing. They provide one of the twelve constellation sky-marks to help you know the zodiac, and it is the zodiac, after all that is essential if you are to know the apparent journeys of the Sun in our sky caused by the fact that we orbit the Sun.

From mid-April until mid-May the Sun is drifting under the stars of Aries that we have just described. Thus, they are not visible during spring. We begin to pick them up in the early morning in summer and they rise in the evening during autumn. In late November they are high in the southeast at 8:00 p.m. and nearly overhead by 10:00 p.m. If you have trouble finding them, visit your local planetarium or contact your local astronomy club for a program about the current sky and ask the staff or club member to identify Aries. You could also ask one of these organizations for a chart of the sky to assist in finding Aries. "

Occult of Personality replied to Synkronos23’s comment:
Feb 27, 2007
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Bravo synkronos23, bravo!

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I hope you don't mind me posting to your blog like this. Instead of reposting the same material I just figured I would comment on the stuff that you already have. If I see synchronicity, I will for sure.

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