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The Chariot

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Correspondences

  • Hebrew Letter: Cheth
  • Path: 18 (Binah-Geburah)
  • Zodiac: Cancer
  • Thoth Title: The Chariot

Meanings

Rider-Waite-Smith

Reversed

Keywords: Victory delayed. Defeat

Upright

Keywords: Heroism. Success. Fame | Waite: Succour, providence; also war, triumph, presumption, vengeance, trouble.

Heroism. Success. Fame. Reversed: Victory delayed. Defeat.

Thoth / Crowley-Harris

Upright

Keywords: Cancer; new beginning, change for the good; introspection, meditation, spiritual path

A new beginning and change for the good through introspection and meditation on the spiritual path.

Number 7: Desire

Victory through persistence, passion. The element overextended, potentially unstable.

Narrative position: overextension