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The Chariot

Major arcana · VII

On the card

An armoured figure stands in a canopied chariot drawn by a black sphinx and a white one, holding no reins, a walled city behind.

Upright

Momentum
Will
Direction

The two sphinxes pull in different directions and there are no reins — the traditional reading is control held by attention rather than by grip. It asks what you are steering, and whether you have named the destination.

Reversed

Stalled
Pulling apart
Force

Reversed, the opposites win: effort that scatters, or a push kept up so hard and so long that the direction stopped being checked.

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About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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