The Chariot

✦ The Chariot

✦ Visual description

A black vintage car or hearse fills the foreground, headlights glowing and a chrome grille gleaming; a pale figure with a small star or flower on their forehead sits behind the wheel. Behind the car is a moonlit landscape of classical monuments, obelisks and a domed building beneath a starry, purple-tinged sky. An ornate gold frame borders the image and a brass plaque at the bottom reads 'COUSIN HEX / THE CHARIOT / crooked way tarot.' Small windshield text appears to read 'COCHE FUNEBRE.'

✦ Meaning

The hearse-turned-chariot rumbles forward beneath a galaxy-streaked sky, its driver steady behind the wheel as monuments stand as mute witnesses to passage and triumph. You can feel the engine's low thrum and the cool night air pressing against the chrome; there is determination in the forward headlights and a steady intention in the driver's gaze. This card tells a story of focused will and movement: harnessing conflicting forces, steering through opposition, and claiming a hard-won direction. Sometimes victory arrives as a slow, iron resolve rather than sudden glory, and the vehicle's solidity reminds you that discipline and control steer outcomes. Yet the same image can speak of stubbornness and being driven too hard — forward motion without clear aim, or a sense of being hauled by others' demands rather than chosen purpose. In those moments the journey snarls, wheels spin, and boundaries between courage and coercion blur, urging a check on impatience and scattered force. Read as a whole, the chariot invites you to seize the reins with clarity, to balance inner opposites, and to keep your eyes on the road while remaining open to course corrections when momentum becomes reckless.