CreativeFire
Moving on to The Chariot:
From Akron/Banzhaf's - Handbook to the Cards:
Instinct: Desire for conquest, spirit of adventure, daring.
Goal: The highest achievable good: The Holy Grail.
Guiding Principle: The hero setting off.
Light: The forces setting off, the path that leads forwards, the searching for and finding of one's own place in the world.
Quality: Victory over one's self: self-knowledge, overcoming one's self, victory.
The enormous red chariot wheels are symbolic of the pure intention to act (I want!), relating the motivation to act to one's own actions. The four columns that carry the blue canopy (correlating to the night sky) are derived from the old worldview in which they support the sky, just as the draft animals are four guardians of the heavens in the form of cherubim. This also shows that the movement within the card is extensive and goes in all directions of the heavens. It then correlates to the task of human beings to make the earth subject unto them.
The first impression I get from this card is 'movement', from the circles - almost like he is moving through a tunnel ( a time tunnel even - bit of imagination here!
). I was interested to read that the central disk that he is holding is supposed to depict The Holy Grail, that he is holding outwards so we can see into the centre (there looks to be a lot of 'power' when you look into this disk to me).
The 'posture' of the knight's legs (apparently like yoga) is interesting, firstly that he could achieve this in armour! but also that it represents inner reflection of some sort.
From the Handbook to the Cards:
The Chariot stands for a still young, but strong self-confidence, letting go of the assumed concepts, developing one's own suitable conception of the world, and for the clever step of penetrating even difficult problems. This is frequently a matter of overcoming inner contradictions, such as the gulf between feeling and thinking, will and instinct, wish and reality.
Also the words 'abracadabra' on the canopy trim of the Chariot caught my attention which apparently translates to "I will create as I speak" - and there is an older thread on this here.
Also here is a link to the older study group thread on the Chariot as well - some interesting stuff in here also.
Look forward to others insights on this card.
CreativeFire
PS. Attached is a pic of the card for ease of reference.
From Akron/Banzhaf's - Handbook to the Cards:
Instinct: Desire for conquest, spirit of adventure, daring.
Goal: The highest achievable good: The Holy Grail.
Guiding Principle: The hero setting off.
Light: The forces setting off, the path that leads forwards, the searching for and finding of one's own place in the world.
Quality: Victory over one's self: self-knowledge, overcoming one's self, victory.
The enormous red chariot wheels are symbolic of the pure intention to act (I want!), relating the motivation to act to one's own actions. The four columns that carry the blue canopy (correlating to the night sky) are derived from the old worldview in which they support the sky, just as the draft animals are four guardians of the heavens in the form of cherubim. This also shows that the movement within the card is extensive and goes in all directions of the heavens. It then correlates to the task of human beings to make the earth subject unto them.
The first impression I get from this card is 'movement', from the circles - almost like he is moving through a tunnel ( a time tunnel even - bit of imagination here!
). I was interested to read that the central disk that he is holding is supposed to depict The Holy Grail, that he is holding outwards so we can see into the centre (there looks to be a lot of 'power' when you look into this disk to me).The 'posture' of the knight's legs (apparently like yoga) is interesting, firstly that he could achieve this in armour! but also that it represents inner reflection of some sort.
From the Handbook to the Cards:
The Chariot stands for a still young, but strong self-confidence, letting go of the assumed concepts, developing one's own suitable conception of the world, and for the clever step of penetrating even difficult problems. This is frequently a matter of overcoming inner contradictions, such as the gulf between feeling and thinking, will and instinct, wish and reality.
Also the words 'abracadabra' on the canopy trim of the Chariot caught my attention which apparently translates to "I will create as I speak" - and there is an older thread on this here.
Also here is a link to the older study group thread on the Chariot as well - some interesting stuff in here also.
Look forward to others insights on this card.
CreativeFire
PS. Attached is a pic of the card for ease of reference.
