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The Chariot: From the Little Booklet

The Child of the Powers of the Waters; the Lord of the Triumph of Light. Cheth. Cancer.

Held by the charioteer is the Cup of Indian, Egyptian and Arthurian tradition and it contains the blood of voluntary sacrifice.  The charioteer (spirit) is seated in the chariot of the body and is drawn by sphinxes, who represent the sixteen sub-elements of the emotions.

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The Chariot.  The four Sphinxes on this card, drawing the chariot, are the Bull, the Lion, the Eagle, and the Man, the whole representing the sixteen sub-elements.   The function of the Charioteer is to bear the Holy Grail, in the centre of which is Charioteer is to bear the Holy Grail, in the centre of which is radiant blood, symbolising the presence of Light in Darkness.

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Triumph.  Victory.  Hope.  Obedience.  Faithfulness.   Health.  Success, though sometimes not enduring.  Authority under authority.  Ill-dignified: Violence in maintaining traditional ideas.  Lust of destruction.

 

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