Arcanum 7: The Chariot
Direction and will
You move forward when you decide where you truly want to go.
Two sphinxes, one black and one white, lie before the chariot, each facing a slightly different direction. The charioteer stands beneath a canopy of stars and guides them by will alone, without reins. You are learning to bring your opposing desires together until they pull in one direction.
Gifts and potential pitfalls
- Gift
- You focus on a goal and see things through, even on a bumpy road. Once you decide, you set the pace and stay on course.
- Shadow
- When speed matters to you, you race straight towards the goal without looking around. Reaching it then costs more than necessary: unfinished business and hurt people are left along the way.
- First step
- Set one goal for this week and cross off every task that does not lead towards it.
In a pair
When this arcanum is at the centre of a shared matrix:
Your chariot moves only when you have a shared destination, because the sphinxes would happily pull in opposite directions.
In the karmic tail
When this arcanum appears at one of the three points below the centre:
You barely finish one thing before planning the next stage, leaving no time to check whether the direction is still yours. The finish line moves with you. After completing a major undertaking, take a day off and say aloud what you want the next goal to give you.
Where this arcanum appears in the matrix
The centre and other points are sums, so this arcanum can appear for many different dates. Three points depend directly on the date:
- Point A (personality): birth day: 7, 25 (2 + 5 = 7).
- Point B (birth month): July.
- Point C (sum of birth-year digits), 1900–2026: 1969 (1 + 9 + 6 + 9 = 25, 2 + 5 = 7), 2014 (2 + 0 + 1 + 4 = 7), 2023 (2 + 0 + 2 + 3 = 7). Number of such years: 7.