Tarot · Major Arcana
The Chariot
Key VII - Water
Correspondences
- Element
- Water
- Planet
- Moon
- Sign
- Cancer
- Number
- 7
- Yes / no
- Yes upright, No reversed
Traditional Golden Dawn attributions. The yes / no value is a convention for single-card questions, not a prediction.
Upright
Opposing forces can be harnessed together if you keep a firm hand on the reins.
The Chariot. Opposing forces can be harnessed together if you keep a firm hand on the reins. Seventh: opposing forces harnessed and driven forward by will. Control held rather than conflict resolved: it works, but only while the grip holds. Under the Moon, it works in cycles and reflections: mood, memory, and matters that change shape depending on when you look at them. Being Water, it resolves below the surface, on feeling rather than argument. Its keyword range runs through willpower, determination, directed drive, victory through focus, and self-mastery.
Reversed
Willpower has split against itself, and the vehicle is no longer under control.
The Chariot reversed. Willpower has split against itself, and the vehicle is no longer under control. Its sign is Cancer, which protects: the shell around the soft thing, loyalty to one's own, and a memory that does not let go easily. Reversed here, the timing is the problem rather than the substance: the right thing arriving early, late, or stalled short of where it was going. Its keyword range, to be read here as difficulty, delay, or a lesson not yet learned: loss of direction, aggression, self-doubt, scattered effort, and stalled momentum.
About the Tarot
A 15th-century Italian card game that was turned to fortune-telling only 350 years later.
The upright and reversed meanings here follow the mainstream Rider-Waite-Smith reading tradition. A reversed card is treated as the same force blocked, turned inward, or overexpressed - not simply as its opposite.
Full history →Meanings are a guide to a symbolic tradition, offered for reflection and entertainment. They do not predict the future or describe real people or events. See the Terms.