The Chariot
The Chariot represents mastery, resolve, and driven focus to overcome obstacles and achieve success through disciplined effort and concentrated energy. It embodies courage, willpower, and determination, urging decisive action and faith when facing challenges that test one's character. With perseverance, outcomes tend toward positive results and can promote both spiritual and material growth. Reversed, the card warns of lack of direction or control, stagnation, and setbacks that undermine motivation and progress. It serves as a caution to reassess goals, regain focus, and prevent external challenges from derailing ambition.
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Short meaning:
The Chariot symbolizes mastery, resolve, drive, and the capacity to surmount challenges, achieving success through disciplined effort and concentrated energy.
Expanded meaning:
The Chariot card symbolizes courage, willpower, and determination. The reader may encounter challenges or struggles that test their resolve and character. They're encouraged to have faith and take decisive steps toward realizing their aspirations. This card suggests that with perseverance, the situation will likely have a positive outcome, fostering both spiritual and material growth.
Reversed meaning:
When reversed, The Chariot suggests a lack of direction or control, leading to feelings of stagnation or defeat. It may indicate obstacles or setbacks that hinder progress, causing doubt or loss of motivation. This orientation of the card serves as a cautionary sign to reassess goals, regain focus, and avoid allowing external challenges to derail ambitions.
Visual Description
A youth in armor stands in a gilded chariot, holding a tall banner in one hand and the chariot's rim in the other. Two sphinx-like figures, one pale and one dark, lie at the chariot's front as if ready to pull. Tall pillars, stylized clouds and a dramatic sky form the backdrop, and the Roman numeral VII appears at the top while the title 'The Chariot' sits at the base. The scene emphasizes motion, control and a sense of forward momentum.
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