The Emperor Tarot Card Meanings

The Emperor General Meaning Upright

• Master thinker
• Loyalty
• Father figure
• Family
• Safety
• New Beginnings
• Structure
• Authority
• Order
• Power
• Influence
• Achievements
• Success
• Respect
• Security
• Fearless
• Progress

The Emperor General Meaning Reversed

• Abuse of power
• excessively controlling
• rigidity
• stubbornness
• lack of discipline
• lack of control
• absentee father
• paternity issues

The Emperor Love Meaning Upright

• Influential relative, boss
• elderly lover
• Rival in a love relationship
• adult male warning
• Relationship with a married woman
• Unplanned pregnancy
• male pressure
• Quick marriage for a girl
• The birth of a son.

The Emperor Love Meaning Reversed

• family quarrel
• Danger for a man from an insidious woman
• For men, the departure of an opponent from a relationship
• Unrequited love
• Starting a divorce for a married woman
• failed marriage
• Feelings getting out of control
• Threats, assault
• Despotism and cynicism.

The Emperor Finance and Career Meaning Upright

• Good career growth
• New position offer
• Income increase
• Male influence
• patronage of a man
• Discovery of new talents and abilities
• Business development
• Authority
• Unexpected trips that bring money.

The Emperor Finance and Career Meaning Reversed

• insubordination
• Business delays
• Breaking the relationship with the boss
• Sharp career slowdown
• Deception, fraud
• Denial of promotion
• patron disease
• Anarchy, chaos.