4 The Emperor

Father who embodies our spiritual ideals, our ethical codes, a god of inspiration and sudden creative vision, a revelation of the truth. Self-sufficiency, authority and ambition which drives us to achieve and the discipline and foresight necessary to accomplish our goals. The father within us also fosters self-respect, because it is this part of us which can take a standpoint from which to meet life's challenges. Responsibility as power, his strength can create and build. Pioneer, adventurer, urg e for action, self-confidence and recognition, executive power, success, optimism, fulfillment of wishes. Negative: Rigidity, implacable self-righteousness, inflexibility, arrogance, tyrants, dogma against human feelings.