tarot
May 17, 2024

The ruler ? your tarot card

"The Ruler": What does this map mean?

Short and sweet
Stability, power, control, strength, assertiveness, self-confidence, responsibility, will to win

Tip!
You yourself are responsible for your life? nobody else. Make the best of it!

"The Ruler": What does the tarot card show?

On the tarot card sits a crowned head, an older man with a long white beard sitting on a stone-gray throne. The landscape in the background is very rugged. Seriously and scrutinizingly, "The Ruler" looks at you.

This figure is, so to speak, the prototype, the archetype for the four kings in the color series of the Little Arcana. If you draw him as a day ticket or if he appears in the laying system while laying the cards, can this be a direct indication that the relationship with your father is happening at the moment? in the good as in the less good? plays a particularly important role. More generally, however, all other authorities in life (such as the boss or any office) can be a particularly important topic for you. As an opportunity as well as a challenge.

Classically, this card is about the structuring principle of the emphatically male character (as opposed to the chronologically preceding trump card, the female-caring "ruler"). It is about taking the (conductor) staff of power into their own hands and, if necessary, leading entire nations, showing them which way to go.

It is not for nothing that this card of the Golden Dawn Order was assigned to the combative, offensive zodiac Aries; and unmistakably adorn ram's heads in the Rider Waite Tarot then also the uncomfortable throne in which "The Ruler" rammed his "iron hoes". Yes, under his royal red cloak he wears a complete suit armor, so he could go to war at any time. He still sits peacefully and presents the insignia of his power: in his left hand the golden orb, in his right the scepter, which has the shape of the ancient Egyptian cross Anch. Anch (also Ankh called) originally symbolized the survival in the afterlife. In modern esotericism, it is understood as a sign of immortality or vitality.

As a day ticket: If the tarot picture "The Ruler" stands for you

Be prepared, today you will have to prove what is in you! Are you the sovereign manager of your life? Can you give yourself and your loved ones a clear direction? Are you ready to fight with all your strength for what you care about? Are you wisely and benevolently dealing with other people, even if they provoke you? Does your self-control work? If you clear all these questions with "Yes!" This will be a day when you can achieve a lot.

As Love-Red: If the tarot card "The Ruler" stands for your partner or your relationship

You have this by your side, what used to be called an "established man's image": a probably older partner who looks after you well, protects you from all the evils of life, but clearly has the command of your relationship. Somehow "quite the dad", right? Maybe he is sometimes too authoritarian and you feel patronized? Something "wrong", not quite on par, your love is already. But as long as you feel comfortable with it, everything is fine.