Tarot of the Crone
IV    ~    EMPEROR

 

 

The Crone Speaks:

    If you think
    Your single life matters
    You are wrong

    What matters
    Is the Great Plan
    What matters
    Is how you may serve

 


The Emperor is a monumental obelisk, supported by a pile of human bodies, and fed by blood and earth and darkness and light. Here is the power of the Crone that sets order to the ages, that quarters and establishes the boundaries of the world. And it is a power that is absolutely impersonal and implacable in the drawing of those boundaries.

The Emperor is logic, the complement to the love of the Empress. Without this power, we would be unable to take a higher view, but forever see ourselves as the center of our universe. It may be time to take a higher view and get on with it, rather than to lie suffering and paralyzed because of things that cannot be changed or we believe cannot be changed. 

The Emperor calls us to take charge of the powers of limitation and order. Lay down the law to the voices we hear. We’ve got a plan. We know what we need and what we won’t bother with. We are clear on our boundaries and allow no trespassing. We speak and act with authority. Time to believe in our own authority. There is a way we can do this that also belongs to Her Great Plan. And there lies the road to success.

 

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