Lincoln as the Emperor

The Lincoln Memorial

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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[Synkronos23]

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]

[this is good] Bravo synkronos23, bravo!

[Synkronos23]

[this is good] 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.