IV ORGANIC PROPORTION ORO Editions

If we look closely at a flower and likewise at other natural and manmade creations, we find a unity and an order common to all of them.

Gyorgy Doczi, The Power of Limits, 1981

In the traditional tarot, the Emperor represents aspects of rule and control. We’ve extrapolated this meaning to explore a new canon of proportion based on organic growth. One of the most important and earliest systems of measurement ever devised was the ancient Egyptian “cubit.” The basis for the cubit was the proportions of the human body. The standard cubit was equivalent to the length of a person’s forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. One standard cubit equaled the length of six palms of the human hand, and one “digit” was the length of one human finger. Some of the world’s most magnificent, enigmatic, and spectacular structures arose from this humble proportioning system.