The armored man in the picture is our inner experiencer. He sits on the vantage point of reason, observing the streams of experiences in the external world and the flow of the inner dialogue.
He is a seasoned experiencer — competent, calm, and cool. His armor is passive, and he carries no weapon. The scratches on his armor bear witness to the challenging and hurtful experiences that evolved him.
Mrs. Generation and Mr. Reason are engaged in teamwork. Mrs. Generation produces experiences, and Mr. Reason analyzes them, gains insight, and gives her feedback. This allows Mrs. Generation to create new and greater experiences, which enables Mr. Reason to gain even more insight into life.
Reason leads to both insight and foresight. Insight and foresight allow us to architect complex experiences, like a family, a business, or even a civilization. For this reason, ageless wisdom assigned to this card the epithet constituting intelligence.
An auspicious Reason card calls for exercising reason, insight into experiences, and having foresight in undertakings.
If the querent’s question pertains to undertakings, the Reason card is the most auspicious since it is the patron of pioneering, ventures, and business development.
An inauspicious Reason card may indicate that a lack of insight and/or unreasonable expectations (irrational foresight) caused the querent’s challenge.
On the Tree of Life, the path of the Reason card connects the spheres Wisdom (2’s) and the Higher Self (6’s). The gray halo symbolizes the 2’s and the cube the 6’s. This connection implies that acting sensibly implies acting according to the principles (wisdom) that apply to the context in question.
The titles and the five core meanings of the Reason card are:
Enlightenment Tarot title: Reason
Traditional title: Emperor
Power of consciousness: Reason
Constructive use: Foresight
Unconstructive use: Hindsight
Auspicious state of mind: Clarity
Inauspicious state of mind: Confusion
On the spiritual-intentional level, the Reason card stands for spiritual vision, aka clairvoyance. Mind that clairvoyance is on a higher level than psychism, which can be misleading.
On the creative-feely level, the Reason card stands for visionary visions, creative insights, and creative foresight.
On the intellectual level, the Reason card stands for logic and deduction. On this level, an inauspicious Reason card may indicate rationalizations.
On the bodily-practical level, the Reason card represents eyesight. An inauspicious Reason card may also indicate, in particular in children, sensitivity to the following afflictions: headache, migraine, poor eyesight, and temporal arteritis (see body zone below).
More Attributions:
Number: 5
Letter: Heh, meaning window (the ability to look outside)
Astrology: Aries
Color: Red
Body zone: The upper head, the eyes, the brain, in particular, the cerebral cortex