Re: IV - The Emperor
firemaiden said:
Translation:
It begins at home --
the armor is riddled with holes --
the stiffness loosened --
run over the red paint [of the armor].
Birth of an authentic ego--
free from the compulsion to eat one's own flesh.
A power within us which is incorruptible (unerring).
Organize the Self --
out of the visible Chaos,
things allow themselves to be arrayed around the navel
in the center of power.
Link to the image: Der Herrscher
I did it again...forgot to use word and jumped back and forth between picture and posting box! Wow! What a deck...I had already written out how I see it apart from the translation at having to do with the chakras and their colors:
1-Red (base of spine)
2-Orange (area of spleen)
3-Yellow (solar plexus)
these three are usually the yin ...with
4-Green (heart) androgenous
5- Blue (the throat)
6- Indigo (pineal gland...3rd eye)
7- Violet (Pituitary Gland)
these last three yang
(here's good 'ol Roy G. Biv again)
The card looks to me as if the outer portions are primarily red in tone (base of spine,) then as go inward, orange(solar plexus) and some yellow...(the first three chakras)...
I also see Blue/Indigo and even black...but absence of violet and green....so a very "masculine" card by color...
Using my old color background (which can be examined on emotional, material and physical level) ....but I will stick with general...Red..passion, intensity, ardent enthusiasm, heightened physical-emotional energy... but then the orange...as a color is more "harmonious"...balance between mind and emotions
Yellow, representing learning, intellect, logic and order....
The
"around the naval" part of the translation seems to fit the "orange" chakra...or about 2 inches below the naval....where the spleen is....
Any thoughts on this? terri
This looks like a deck I would really enjoy because of the COLOR...
will save it for later as a deck. Do you have this deck?