By Sarah Taylor
I’ve written about The Chariot before — a little under two years ago. More than that: I’ve thrown the subject of The Chariot open to the audience before, too.
But if there’s one thing I’ve learned about tarot, it is that the cards reveal themselves to us layer by layer, each layer going deeper to a sense of truth that is elusive and ineffable, but comes closer with each discovery.
The Chariot has always posed an enigma for me. It might well be that this reflects an enigma about myself — in fact, I’m almost certain of that. Nevertheless, it’s a card that keeps coming up recently, in the readings I’m seeing for others and by others, and in the cards highlighted on my newsfeed. This isn’t just about the ‘me’ that inhabits a body; there is a ubiquity about it, and that speaks of some archetypal vision that is being brought forward — a collective experience.
Given that, I’ve been asking myself: what is it about The Chariot that wants to reveal itself this time around that wasn’t accessible the last? (You can read the last two articles here, and here.)
Something has been revealing itself to me, but it feels like a quality that surrounds The Chariot that enhances my encounter with it, as opposed to a formal correspondence.
The Chariot is associated with the sign of Cancer, which is ruled by the Moon, yet my visceral feel of The Chariot is more closely associated with another planet: that of Saturn. A second aspect of astrology feeds into this gut feel: the movement from Pisces into Aries.