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Major Arcana VII

The Chariot

Direction, will and progress

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Card of a tall black cat in a chariot under a starry canopy, flanked by a black and a light sphinx before a city and a road
Major Arcana VIIThe Chariot

Reading the card

Moving forward requires gathering forces that pull in different directions.

The Car proposes choosing a direction and sticking to it without denying the tensions of the journey. The will does not consist of running more, but rather coordinating impulse, limits and attention so that the movement responds to its own direction.

The Chariot remains between a city that is left behind and two forces that do not advance alone in the same direction. Their movement depends on coordination, not speed. This card can appear when there is already momentum but there is a lack of criteria to guide it. Define a nearby destination, identify which tensions compete for your energy, and decide how to measure progress. Driving well also includes stopping if the course stops responding to your values.

Documented iconography

Symbols to look slowly.

We separate the motifs inherited from the Rider-Waite-Smith system from any artistic decision of Cat Omens.

  1. RWS Tradition

    The two sphinxes

    The light and dark guardians represent different forces that must be oriented in the same direction.

    The Pictorial Key to the Tarot · Part II
  2. RWS Tradition

    The starry canopy

    The stars place the advance under a chosen direction that exceeds the immediate impulse.

    The Pictorial Key to the Tarot · Part II

Origin

What we inherit and what we interpret.

The symbolic structure belongs to a published tradition; the reading and the feline adaptation are an editorial creation of Cat Omens.

Reference system
Rider-Waite-Smith
Editorial layer
Original Cat Omens

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