The Emperor Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of The Emperor? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for The Emperor from Major Arcana Tarot Cards and what is the personality traits.
ESTJ (8w9)
The Emperor personality type is ESTJ, which is an extroverted, sensing, thinking and judging type.
The more I read about the Emperor personality type, the more I realized that it was a very important part of my life story. It is one of the most well-known types in society.
People that are ESTJ, or the Emperor personality type, make up around 30% of the population.
I was always the teacher’s pet: I was the one that liked to be in charge.
I was always the teacher’s pet: I was the one that liked to be in charge.
It seems to me that there are four main functions that make up the Emperor persona:
Introverted thinking (Ti) is a way of organizing and making sense of information and ideas. Introverted thinking gives us a sense of logic, which is what allows us to logically decide what is right from wrong. Extroverted sensing (Se) gives us a means to gather information from our environment and from our own internal processes. Extroverted sensing gives us a strong desire for self-preservation and a sense of practicality.
UPRIGHT: Authority, establishment, structure, a father figure
REVERSED: Domination, excessive control, lack of discipline, inflexibility
If the Empress is the Mother archetype of the Tarot deck, the Emperor is the Father. He sits upon a large stone throne, adorned with four rams’ heads (symbolic of his connection with Aries and the planet Mars). In his right hand, the Emperor holds an ankh, the Egyptian symbol of life, and in his left is an orb representing the world over which he rules. He wears a red robe, indicative of his power, passion and energy for life. Underneath it, he wears a suit of armour, suggesting that he is protected from any threat (and any emotional response or vulnerability). His long white beard is symbolic of his age-old wisdom and experience, and along with his gold crown, he is an authority figure who demands to be heard.
