An empty crossroads on a heath at night, a leaning signpost and poppy heads in the verge.

The tarot · VII

The Chariot

Child of the Powers of the Waters, Lord of the Triumph of Light

The face of VII, The Chariot, engraved in gold on black, with its title, Child of the Powers of the Waters, Lord of the Triumph of Light.

Victory through mastery of opposing forces.

Upright

Determination, momentum and control. You can steer powerful and contradictory energies towards one goal. Move forward with discipline.

Reversed

Losing the reins, aggression or forcing a direction your life is not built to go.

Show the spirits

The spirit work

In the Goetia, Seere goes and comes in an instant and brings things to pass suddenly. Khepri rolls the sun across the sky each morning. Use this card to ask for swift movement, and be ready to steer once it comes.

A question to sit with

What two forces in me need to pull in the same direction?

Where the card sits

Correspondences

Path18, Binah to Geburah
Hebrew letterCheth, the fence, value 8
AstrologyCancer, cardinal water, ruled by the Moon
Presiding powerKhepri, the scarab who rolls the sun
Governing angelMuriel, angel of Cancer
RuneEhwaz, the horse: trusted movement and partnership in motion
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SpiritSeere, prince
The seal of Seere

Appears as a beautiful man on a winged horse. Goes and comes in an instant, brings things to pass suddenly, finds theft and hidden treasure. Goetia 70.

The Chariot in the guidebookAll seventy-eight cards

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Notes on sources

The meanings, the questions and the correspondences are the guidebook’s own. The paths, letters and astrology follow the Golden Dawn’s attributions; the angels are the Shem ha-Mephorash, as the deck gives them; the spirits, shown only when you ask for them, are the seventy-two of the Goetia. Where each comes from, and what is old and what is modern, is set out in the guidebook’s Notes on sources and seals.