Emperor meaning in a reading of Tarot.

"Ability, Power, Proper action, Use the power you've gained wisely."

When this card appears in a reading it has a whole lot to do with your decision making process and how you came to this place or point here and now. 

But taken from an intensely male viewpoint of power, influence and rational decision-making.

Are you being too aggressive or not aggressive enough? 

Are your decisions based on knowledge and wisdom or are you overreacting and flying off the handle?

You need to look at how you got where you are and everything that you had to go through to get there. 

Did you learn anything along the way? Is it something that you worked for or something that you just fell into?

Either way life doesn't just handle itself (commonly) you have to force it or coerce it in some way.

All of these details are affected by the issues that are at hand in dealing with a reading.

Mahatma Gandhi defined violence as imposing your will in any way upon another.

Well in order to do anything at all you (technically) have to impose your will upon another.

This is by no means a slight to Gandhi it is more an observation of physical life itself and the fact that pretty much everything that we do is some form of a violent nature.

If you have ever had an infant give you an open mouth kiss on the cheek there's no way that you see this as a form of violence and that's not exactly the point I'm working towards

here. It is; that we tend to ignore so many of the subtle forms of violence we use every day of our lives and especially show to each other on television and in general behavior

patterns passed down through the generations.

To be aware of this is fundamental fact is actually the issue. The awareness itself is the point.

We don't want to admit it, that's too scary for us to think of that way. But it is a fact. 

Whether it's opening a door, cooking an omelet, changing diapers, doing the dishes, starting the car or sketching a portrait we are forcing the things around us to be different than

they are at the moment prior.

This is violence that you use all the time but because you don't see it as harming another person or living creature, it's ok to do and use.

Things don't just go right, they have to be made to go right; they have to be forced to go right. 

What force needs to be applied and what is the purpose behind the force?

A lot of people equate force with anger because when we get angry we tend to get forceful (on occasion). Anger actually has nothing to do with it.

It's more about necessity than emotion. When you drive your car you are applying direct and intended force and without your guidance a catastrophe would happen.

A surgeon cuts a person open and takes out parts of the body using a sharp knife but the surgeon isn't angry with his patient.

You drive your car down the highway forcing it into the direction you want it to go at the speeds you want to drive and if you let go of the

steering wheel the car would veer into the ditch or worse.

But this does not make you angry with your car because you know the limitations of the world around you. 

You know that the car will not drive itself and that diseased body parts will not just jump happily out of the body to make everything better.

The awareness of your decision comes into play here in being responsible for any and all possible outcomes or upcoming scenarios.

Your willingness to accept responsibility for not only your actions but also the actions of everything around you has a great deal to do with

your self-control and the control of others as well including both people and objects.