The Chariot

✦ AMBITION; WILL; SUCCESS; CONTROL

✦ Victory and Triumph

The Chariot is the embodiment of success, the taste of victory after years of struggle and uphill battles. It is the finish line. A figure is frozen in time as he takes his place upon a throne of wings, half ascending and half-reclining after an arduous trek, his arms raised in triumph.

✦ Symbols of Power and Control

In one hand he holds a scepter, a symbol of power and rule, and in the other a chain, an instrument of control and authority. He has learned to master himself as well as harness the powers of the entities that surround him, using every power at his disposal to achieve his goals. For this, he is rewarded with a golden wreath. At his feet, we see a pool of stars, some connected in an interstellar path.

✦ Final Triumph or Another Step?

How far has the victor come? Is this his final triumph, or just another stop among farther and more unknown worlds?

✦ ADDITIONAL ARTWORK

At the Chariot’s feet lies a simplified diagram detailing the descent of the Apollo Lunar Module; the vehicle used by the first humans to visit the moon. The Lunar Landing was part of a decades-long space race, initiated in part by the Soviet Union’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1. Four years later, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, aboard the Vostok 1, would be the first human to initiate spaceflight, spurring a long sequence of “firsts” between the competing Soviet Union and the United States. Eight years later, Neil Armstrong would close out 1969 as being the first human on the moon. In 1975, the space race concluded with a joint US-Soviet project, docking a US Apollo module with a Soviet Soyuz module in Earth’s orbit. This project was named the Apollo-Soyuz test project. The Soviets refer to it as the Soyuz-Apollo.