Probie
Step 17
Rider-Waite-Smith
7/The Chariot
17.1: The 4/Pentacles Exercise
I found this one to be interesting. I used a soft, square pillow for a pentacle stand in and it was some effort to hold this light thing in the pose shown when I began to tense. It was like the exercises I’ve been doing in beginning Yoga where you fight against yourself to create an exercise. I imagined balancing this pentacle on my head and then stamping my feet down hard (like you would do on pieces of paper during a windy day you don’t want flying away). My soma/body said, “This figure in this card is working very hard to keep all these pentacles under his control.” A very good exercise, I saw this one also in K and K (2002) Heart of Tarot: An Intuitive Approach. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn. It was neat to do this myself!
17.2: 7/The Chariot Exercise
I experimented with tensing my forearms and found quite a difference in holding the rod/wand and the fist the figure has from just letting the wand dangle (point to the ground) and the hand completely open. This person is taking a strong stance for sure! The sphinxes are relaxed I think as our cats will strike a similar resting position like that one, but not the man. He is on alert and taking a stance of power/force. It was hard to figure out what to do about his poise as it looks like he’s stuck in a pillar of concrete which makes him perpetually stand. Whatever it is, he’s not sitting but I did because it can be hard to stand for me with a wand and a fist (no way to grab my cane when I need it). I think I have to agree with Bunning (1998; Learning the Tarot: A Tarot Book for Beginners. San Francisco: Weiser Books.) here, this figure is into a win-lose dynamic.
Rider-Waite-Smith
7/The Chariot
17.1: The 4/Pentacles Exercise
I found this one to be interesting. I used a soft, square pillow for a pentacle stand in and it was some effort to hold this light thing in the pose shown when I began to tense. It was like the exercises I’ve been doing in beginning Yoga where you fight against yourself to create an exercise. I imagined balancing this pentacle on my head and then stamping my feet down hard (like you would do on pieces of paper during a windy day you don’t want flying away). My soma/body said, “This figure in this card is working very hard to keep all these pentacles under his control.” A very good exercise, I saw this one also in K and K (2002) Heart of Tarot: An Intuitive Approach. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn. It was neat to do this myself!
17.2: 7/The Chariot Exercise
I experimented with tensing my forearms and found quite a difference in holding the rod/wand and the fist the figure has from just letting the wand dangle (point to the ground) and the hand completely open. This person is taking a strong stance for sure! The sphinxes are relaxed I think as our cats will strike a similar resting position like that one, but not the man. He is on alert and taking a stance of power/force. It was hard to figure out what to do about his poise as it looks like he’s stuck in a pillar of concrete which makes him perpetually stand. Whatever it is, he’s not sitting but I did because it can be hard to stand for me with a wand and a fist (no way to grab my cane when I need it). I think I have to agree with Bunning (1998; Learning the Tarot: A Tarot Book for Beginners. San Francisco: Weiser Books.) here, this figure is into a win-lose dynamic.