A new beginning or stride with ambition, will and competitive instinct.
The Chariot is a change to good, an introspection that this conflict cannot be avoided, but needs to be faced with strength and containment.
This card always has a backdrop of great outer outer activity, and represents the fortitude to take its challenge.
And bring with it your stride and strongest Self.
Victory or an achievement putting the querent in a strong and protected
position. Ambition, energy, motivation to move forward. Public honor. Power and high status.
This is a card of daring. Great artistic success or triumph in work. Sustained effort will bring progress and success.
Apply energy wisely and plan carefully, otherwise lack of direction could bring failure.
Lack of refinement. Introspection is necessary to clear vision and reach goal.
Caution is recommended to this, as you are still about to burst into stride or a flurry or activity.
Get in touch with your instincts, or find your awareness, they may be obstacles or delays. You will find yourself put to the test.
Practical and material achievements. Matters relating to the workplace
or source of income. The bigger picture of your place in the Universe.
Spiritual ideals, our ethical codes, inspiration and sudden creative vision, a revelation of the truth. Self-sufficiency, authority and ambition that drives us to achieve and the discipline & foresight necessary to accomplish our goals.
Responsibility as power, strength to create and build.
Using own initiative, sense of adventure; courage and kindness will stand you in good stead.
This is the card of the path-breaker, but only if your own foundations are strong. Understand what makes you, and what makes you work. And then access how the world around you works.
In-between is your own foundation.
A leader must learn to discipline self before others.
Delayed outcome through ruthless competition.
Being dogmatic only hurts your own cause.
Actualising ideas with the help of powerful man may be useful. Or re-connect with your own source of inner self-confidence & power.
Sometimes you have to rebel against your own personality to find harmony with your soul.
Rigidity, implacable self-righteousness, inflexibility, arrogance – Neither of these are your friends. In so, make sure your pillars of being don’t suffer them.
A need to be healed, sometimes a need to heal others.
The fulfilment of being useful and caring to others needs. Greater emotional and spiritual maturity.
Emotional maturity, optimism, ability to overcome past injuries and look ahead. Openness to new things, but with prudence and caution. Closing one’s ear to voices from the past.
A joyous man full of love and availability, who wants to help and guide others. Someone that constantly wants to help others but possibly struggling to be at peace with themselves.
A powerful new friend or counsellor.
This is a wonderful card if it indicates you, else help can be expected from someone else if it indicates another.
Manipulating people through their emotions. Difficulty in overcoming an emotional blow. A pessimistic outlook caused by negative past experiences.
A deep-seated worry or problem reemerges.
Finding your own solution can avoid open confrontation. or conflict.
Guard against manipulation in financial, legal matters and emotional matters.
Make sure that you are seeing your problems realistically. This card indicates that you need healing, your pride could be getting in the way. If this is you, find help and heal yourself.
Conversely, if this indicates someone around you, this indicates someones suffering because of their own outlook, and needs to find humility to open themselves up to healing. Tread carefully around them, someone in pain often tends to lash out.
The great cycle of the Major Arcana ends where it begins, the unborn potential of the personality ultimately leads to the birth of freedom, open to all possibilities, crazy enough to start again.
Synthesis brings the objective, this being outside of oneself, no ego – in the completion of karma.
Completion of a process. Balanced activity and achievements in vari ous domains. Contact with far places. Harmony and correspondence between different planes. Pregnancy, something new is about to be born. The Dance of Life.
A welcome change of scenery or a wish granted. You have the audience of the universe of you receive this card.
This is the big picture, all of it – a magical mystical encounter of the inner-outside universe likely awaits you.
Life in a bubble, difficulty in sharing your world with others. Disconnection of inner feelings from external life. Preoccupation with oneself, idealized self-image, inability to move forward.
Although an intense spirit encounter is likely, you may not quite be able to harness this energy and may find yourself tested. All the same, there is magic and possibly the occult afoot, watch your step.
Fear of change limits potential for success. You might be resisting change because of strong attachment to a place, idea or person.
There are bigger elements at play if you get this card.
The weapons of discretion – which have to be used with intelligence, foresight and planning.
The capacity of the mind to integrate both dark and light with logic, diplomacy and cleverness. Ability to make choices based upon reflection, reining instincts in control. The willingness to battle for principles rather than passions, not influenced by personal desire or motivation.
Possibly legal matters, or strategic alliances.
Honesty, balance, order and foresight are the keystones of good decisions and real power, derived from insight dawns as wisdom.
Power and courage to face challenges. Controlled expression of creative
urges, drives and desires. Mobilization of inner resources towards a common goal. Taking risks.
Counter-productively idealistic. Cold or disharmonious with damaging impact to personal relationships.
Naturally being unfairly judgmental is one of the flip-side meaning of this card.
To judge another, one must first adjudge oneself. Then compensate the shortcomings to insight. That is the heart of wisdom.
Needing to keep things under control leads to constant tensions. A risk of losing one’s grip. Internal
conflicts and unrealistic assessment of one’s own forces.
Too mental an approach, losing touch with the heart of the matter. A struggle against the odds.
A need to curtail one’s outward desires & attitudes.
Meeting of the Sword of Mind with the Cup of Love. The union of values & inner reflections.free will versus the compulsions of the instincts. Free will versus the compulsions & horoscopes of the instincts.
Without passing through this initiation by fire, we cannot understand how we create our own future. It is the encounter with feelings, love and beauty, passion and faithfulness, the harmony, uniting of differences. Lovers represents the creation of the world – the marriage of duality, by love awareness happens and in this surrender, new doors open.
Opposites are two sides of the same coin; one cannot exist without the other.
The need to make
a choice, or to disengage oneself from past influences. Inclinations of the heart correspond to the will of heaven. Small steps taken are the visible signs of inner desire.
Driven blindly by desires. Complex relationship between more than one person.
Tension or hesitation to act upon inner feelings or will. Need for creating close bonds with others. Inability to cope with uncertainty in relationships.
Overdependence, or an emotional trial of some sort.
Often reversed lovers can also indicate repressed or exaggerated sexuality as much as an imminent encounter of the heart.
Courage, fortitude and Self-Discipline. You are tested on your principles and what you stand for.
This lesson of harnessing one’s aggression and directing it toward a creative end.
Strength applied to joyful purpose. Through such an experience we come in contact with the beast but also with the hero, emerging from this contest with trust in oneself and integrity towards others. The lion within is the image of the infantile savage and royalty, interpreted as vigour.
A fair and balanced judgment. A
developed conscience. Rationality, reasoning by clear rules and common norms. Touch of grace and humanity
beyond the objective considerations.
Look beneath the surface; do not judge others by appearance alone.
Balanced emotions result in harmonious partnerships. Legal Matters.
Try to forget past wrongs; events cannot be altered. Weigh every situation carefully and impartially.
Petty accountability, a critical and judgmental attitude, guilt.
Repressed instincts without any transformation, leaving behind a strong shell within a soul without passion and without a true identity.
Frustration and resentment through inability to adjust to circumstances.
Delay or legal matters.
And/or obviously very difficult circumstances. The very essence of strength or fortitude reversed.
Essentially this card deals with all matters associated with the spoken or written word, and also the symbolic occult sense of all meaning outside of your self.
A coat of quotes and passing poetry
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Artwork : Self-potrait by Pablo Picasso.
"How like an Angel came I down! How bright are all things here!
When first among His works I did appear,
O how their Glory me did crown!
The world resembled his Eternity, In which my soul did walk;
And every thing that I did see Did with me talk.
The skies in their magnificence, The lively, lovely air,
Oh how divine, how soft, how sweet, how fair!
The stars did entertain my sense,
And all the works of God, so bright and pure,
So rich and great did seem,
As if they ever must endure In my esteem."
"Esteem | Thomas Traherne