The Emperor
The Horned God is a symbol of power, wisdom, and fertility, representing leadership qualities and the natural life cycles. He embodies the role of a protector and benefactor, generously sharing his abundance. His authority extends over the forest, plants, and animals, teaching the unity of all life within the ecosystem. The presence of ravens around his head signifies messages, guardianship, growth, and management.
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Description
Surrounded by the wild animals of his domain, the god of nature stands in a clearing. His head is adorned with branching horns. He is the ruler of the forest and the lord of animals, embodying power, wisdom, and fertility. His strength lies in his management and leadership qualities. The responsibility of his position has tempered his character, as he is the keeper of nature, protecting and overseeing natural life cycles.
He understands his connection to these cycles, willingly playing his role throughout all seasons. Marrying the mother goddess on the summer solstice, he nourishes the land. By fertilizing it and giving it his masculine power, he embodies the aspect of the sage.
However, he is now strong, aware of his power, alongside kindness and tenderness, generously sharing abundance. The Horned God is revered as a benefactor and protector, though he also represents the wild god of the hunt, reflecting times when survival depended on hunting. His image as a hunter dates back to the distant past, found among cave drawings where he is depicted as a horned shaman, dressed in skins and performing a ritual for a successful hunt.
Role
The Horned God is the master of the forest, plants, and the animal kingdom. He creates his domain and manages it, demonstrating the life cycle through the changing seasons. He empathizes with animals, whose roles as predators or prey, parasites or game, align with their nature, and teaches that the divine spirit lives in everything. The Horned God reminds the hunter to bless the pursued with an understanding of the unity of all living things in the ecosystem they inhabit, for what is harmful to one serves as food for another.
The abundant wild bergamot growing around the god and covered in blood-colored red flowers signifies authority, power, fertility, and energy. Ravens circling above his head symbolize messages, guardianship, growth, and management.
Upright Meaning
achievement, leadership, skills, responsibility, management, personal power, stability, confidence, experience, project development, protection of what has been created, fertility, satisfaction, agriculture.
Reversed Meaning
bureaucracy, inflexibility, indecisiveness, pettiness.
Keywords
responsibility, construction.
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