1. Tarot
2. Card meanings
3. The Chariot

Major Arcana · VII

The Chariot

• succour
• providence
• triumph

Upright meaning

Movement under direction. Waite calls the charioteer conquest on all planes, in the mind and in progress: will and focus holding opposite pulls together.

Reversed meaning

Reversed, a sense of dispute or of being pulled two ways. A prompt to choose a direction before pushing harder.

• dispute

Symbolism

A princely figure under a starry canopy rides a chariot drawn by two sphinxes, one dark and one light.

Group

Major Arcana

Element, astrology

Not given by Waite, so we give none

Source

Our own plain-English summary of A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London: Rider, 1911), Part II §2 (symbolism); Part III §3 (divinatory meanings). The keywords are Waite’s own words. Waite’s fortune-telling lists also contain harsher terms; we keep to the reflective readings he gives and never state an event as certain.

Tarot is a tool for reflection, not a prediction of fixed outcomes. This is not medical, legal or financial advice.