Structure, authority, and the discipline to build something that lasts. Control as steadiness.
Control turned rigid or domineering, or the absence of any order at all.
“THE EMPEROR.—Stability, power, protection, realization; a great person; aid, reason, conviction; also authority and will. Reversed: Benevolence, compassion, credit; also confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity. 5. THE HIEROPHANT.—Marriage, alliance, captivity, servitude; by another account, mercy and goodness;…”— Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911
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