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The Chariot Card Emerald Tolemac. This card is from the Emerald Tolemac Tarot deck. The images from our deck are all copyright, created by Madeline Rose and artist Sonhaj Silitonga.
The Chariot Card Emerald Tolemac Tarot
The Chariot Card Emerald Tolemac represents the questioner venturing forth. You are being called to a quest. Everything is looking up, and there is a sense that you have vanquished a certain amount of your inner demons to prepare for this moment of emergence. There will be a lot to keep in mind on this journey, though. The Chariot is all about balancing the opposing forces that you encounter along the way.
The Chariot’s number is seven, which represents the dream of life, the days of the week, and the Christian virtues. It also symbolises truth, and the seven seals that enclose God’s sacred scroll. Divinity is all over this card because it tells the story of how you connect your physical life to the sacred.
The questioner can learn much from this card about how to move through life in a way that aligns mind and soul. The Chariot teaches us to be harmonious with the cosmos. The Chariot is a means of transport. In mythology, the sun was driven across the sky in this manner. Dante tells us that chariot can bring you to heaven, with the wheels representing charity and prudence. The figure in this card is King Arthur, venturing out to do battle against those who sought to oppose him. He looks like Mars, the god of war.
Like Mars, King Arthur has been in a struggle, in which he has triumphed against formidable odds. One of the lessons of this card is that sustained effort pays off. This means learning to control your emotions and strengthen your character. King Arthur is dressed for battle and is holding a sword. The symbolism of his clothing and the sword represents his mind that is making life decisions. The sword divides and discerns. It is not about judgment, but wise sorting of the circumstances that you find yourself in, and wise sorting of the people that you are mixing with. You need to sort the wheat from the chaff in your life.
The Chariot Card Emerald Tolemac can be considered a counterpoint to the orderly Hierophant. If the questioner gets this card in a spread it may herald unexpected news, and it will most likely be good tidings. You might be on the verge of a promotion or some other success. Accepting success can be hard for some, so the Chariot offers guidance. The full moon is depicted in the sky. The moon is wonderfully receptive, reflecting the life-giving light of the sun. This is a model for gracefully taking a compliment. If you are at the beginning of a project, heed the advice of careful planning. Luckily the astrological influence of the Chariot can pitch in on this effort!
The chariot itself has a red crab painted on the side, a symbol of the zodiac sign of Cancer. This sign comes after the summer solstice and is a water sign whose main attributes are security and control. This is manifested in the imagery of the horses.
Two horses are reined in by King Arthur: a black one and a white one, each with the yin yang symbol on their straps. There’s a bit of dark in the light a bit of light in the dark in everyone. The horses represent the spirit of the questioner. We all have the potential to be mostly good and if we choose otherwise, mostly bad. But there’s always a dash of the opposite force holding us in place. To walk the Journey of the Fool you need to make a choice as to which force you’re going to feed. What this card is asking you to do is to make a conscious effort to choose to be good. Horses are the opposing forces that the questioner must keep in balance in order to keep his chariot on the road.
There are many symbols on this card, which can speak to the direction of the questioner. There are horse riders in the sky – four of them. They represent the four horsemen of the apocalypse: Conquest, War, Famine, and Death. Biblically, their job was to bring peace or tribulation. They mirror the human influences of good and evil. Just as we can manifest a variety of actions, so life can throw us grace or curveballs.
There are tall white flags with red crosses on the wall of the city behind. They represent love, protection, and sacrifice. You are venturing out of your spiritual home on your quest, into a world where anything can happen. Meanwhile, the sun is rising: a symbol of a new beginning.
The red crosses eventually became the symbol of the Knights Templar, and later were recognised as the symbol of the patron Saint George during the third crusade. Saint George was a warrior saint, and the powerful energies that he embodied are still around today.
The red crosses on a white background were used from approximately 660 AD by the group of Knights that Merlin trained. In 1100 AD the Knights Templar began to be recognised in history, having descended from the Knights of the Round Table and their apprentices.
Over time, the people learned that they could leave their valuables with the Knights who owned the castles. There were always guards on duty who would fight to protect the castle from invasion by looters. The Knights Templar learned that they could issue an IOU to the people with a list of their valuables on it… a kind of promissory note. The people then handed their IOU notes around amongst themselves and traded for goods and services between each other. When finally someone would go to the Knights to cash in the IOU, there would be several signatures on the IOU from having been passed around to different people through their trading agreements.
This idea led to the Knights Templar becoming the money handlers throughout Europe. They introduced systems of money where there was no usury, however, they did charge rent on properties that were ‘mortgaged’ to them. Thus they got around the usury laws written in the Bible by doing this. Such acts came along many years after the original values were put in place. The original Knights’ values which had been passed down to others became corrupted by the ego of those who were distant from their teachers, Merlin and King Arthur. Greed got in the way and changed things, as is often the case when the teacher is no longer there to guide the students. Be careful of this in your own life. Know that there is always the potential to fall to the dark whenever you set out to do something good.
The hordes of small pink beings represent demons. These are the entities behind much of the misfortune that occurs on our quest towards our goals. When wanting to achieve a goal, mostly everyone starts out from a position of good intentions. However, in stepping out from that position towards where we want to go, we will be faced with all kinds of evil and deviousness which is designed to prevent us from achieving our aim. It is only by maintaining balance, discernment, and awareness that we can maintain direction. Then, couple that with the force of our will and we can push past any obstacles placed in our way. The Knights who came along many years after the teachings of Merlin took upon themselves to do things their own way, and became corrupted by the demons who took them the wrong way.
The drawbridge represents venturing out beyond protection. The querent is crossing the water going to a new realm. If you maintain strength and integrity, you’ll be able to return. If you don’t, you’ll be stuck in a place where you’ll be forever plagued by the demonic astral entities that move in the hidden dimensions beside us. Those entities that pull the strings of people on our path and that get in the way of all our hopes and dreams.
The Chariot Card Emerald Tolemac is a fresh start, but it can be easy to get bogged down. Have you ever had a dream that your car wouldn’t start? Often these dreams are related to the archetype of the Chariot, and how you feel about the way you are moving through life towards your goals. If you do not let yourself be pulled too far in one direction or another, the Chariot portends success to keep the engine of your goals and dreams going.
The images from our deck are all copyright, created by Madeline Rose and Sonhaj Silitonga.
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Psychic Madeline Rose
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