The Number One Tarot Card Learning Room: The Chariot

 

Journey through the Enchanted Tarot Kingdom

The Major Arcana Deck (O - XXI)  

(VII) The Chariot

                                                   

Number VII:                Fate, soul development and perfection

                                        Mystery, intuition and evaluation
                                        Safety, security, effort, and successful completion                                    

Arcana:                         Major - represents the cycle in life while emphasising

                                        the importance of the card's meaning and timing (i.e., a
                                        major life event and currently powerful energies at work)

Card Meaning:            Control of direction - fate and path

                                        Will power and drive
                                        Self-protection and security

Element:                      Water

Zodiac Sign:             Gemini

Planet:                           Moon              

Symbolism: Archetypal Worlds and Key Symbols

The Animal World

Horses (Black and White): Life Force and the Cosmos. A symbol of opposing forces that the charioteer must learn to control. The task is to guide both horses in one direction, towards a destination - one that is marked by the cosmic forces that the charioteer represents. Unity, balance, and synthesis

The Spiritual World 

Crescent Moons (on armour): Cyclic phases, divine light, mediation, reflection, imagination, instinct, and intuition

Sun (emblazoned on chest): Denotes spiritual guidance, inspiration and navigation, blessing, and the grounding of actions in the material world

The Human World

Armour (Chest): Protection, status, strength, skill and preparedness

Chariot (The personality that carries one through life): Denotes a human journey through life and the human body’s transitory nature as it is affected by mundane life forces

Crown: Royal leader, the highest faculty in the human and highest attainment of man in the spiritual evolution, enlightened and purity of will

Wand/Sceptre: Direction, intensity, purification, authority, triumph, and success

Wheel/s: Energy of circular motion in the Cosmos, rotation, movement, revolution, cycle/s of existence and cause and effect of continual rhythm

Colours

White and Black: Duality, positive and negative and at times, opposing forces (white: purity of motive and virtue), (black: void/opposite and contradictory, i.e., conflict external and internal struggle of mind and emotion)
Deep Blue: Balanced spiritual understanding, expansion and success

Gold: The “cosmic mind,” universal union, understanding and intuitive abilities

Green/Brown: Nature accord, support, material plane and grounding energy
Orange (akin to the Sun): Strength, courage, inspiration and success

Story Line: Reading the card

I take the reins in my hands and move forward with clarity, poise and confidence. I stay resolute and trusting. I am connected and protected knowing I will reach my destination. I am going in the right direction.

The Chariot generally appears in a reading to encourage us to focus our attention. The engagement of willpower is required to overcome the mind's and emotions' irregular forces. Further, we are reminded we need to muster up the confidence and energy to meet our goals to stay the course (we on the right path). We are required to assume a position of control, to lead, not to follow. Denotes: direction, tenacity, focus, and instinct. The Chariot is all about self-control, particularly when deciding on a new direction and it marks effort and ultimate success.

Coming next... (VIII) Strength

Until then, as they say in Nigeria - Pidgin (between friends), "Oya 

nah, bye my gee or )".