Looking Forward: The Chariot – Resolutions.

“Following through on your intentions and manifesting your desires”.

Carefree abandon usually follows the Chariot, alongside haste and occasionally missing the point of the journey, particularly in the rush to get the job done and finished. It’s not one of my favourite cards, never have been a fan of the Chariot, much like the Tower, it has too many cautions and too many pitfalls.

In this deck it is a busy card, a lot happening within it and the subtle things are easily missed. Look at the leads from the dogs, look at how they are getting tangled in the hands, how easy it would be to lose the grip or get them wrapped up around you or the board itself. Then there is the hat, getting blown off the head, reach up for that and you can lose the balance and fall, the positioning of the feet is out of balance to the board as well, so it’s a fall waiting to happen.

With the speed of the dogs, its careless over carefree, but they can appear to be the same thing on the surface at least. The Chariot is a surface card, hiding the depths of just how wrong things can actually appear on the surface at least right.

‘You find a trapped efreet who offers you his services for a year if you can find a way to free him’.

In Islamic mythology the efreet (or ifrit) are related to Djinn possibly through blood or marriage. Like Djinn they aren’t really aligned with either good or bad, but rather aligned to what benefits them best, and if you get on the wrong side of them you may end up regretting it. Therefore, while freeing the efreet from servitude may be the right thing to do, it may have unforeseen consequences. 

Consider the options before committing or agreeing to any contracts or longer-term projects, slow down and think about the bigger picture and the point of the journey, not just the travel you are doing or going to be doing.

The point is not just the journey, but what is gained in getting there, sometimes its wiser to remember why you started in the first place, rather than where you’re going next! 

Reflections: Death – Self Conceptualising.

“The transformation from one perceptual reality to another and the ending of habitual patterns.” 

We are always reinventing ourselves, every sleep cycle we’re letting go of who we were on that day, and each time we wake, well we get to decide who we are going to be for this new day. Its not something that we really think about as humans, in a sense we take the day for granted, much like we assume too much about ourselves as well.

We are so sure of ourselves, so sure about our reality, and so sure of our humanity, that its only until they are taken away from us, sometimes quickly and other times slowly, that we really understand that reality is as fragile as we are.

Reality, much like normality is an allusion, something we create to divert our attention away from any number of hard truths. We don’t like to look beyond the edges of our niche in reality otherwise harder questions, and harder truths creep in and disturb us. Society in turn label us, and before we know it we’re social pariah’s branded mavericks, autistic, dyslexic, disabled, socially anxious, and well you get the idea.

‘A vampire lord offers you the gift of eternal undeath in exchange for a single favour.’

I am always wary of simple favours, they are never simple and never favours, have you ever asked the question “Why isn’t anything simple?” There is an answer, but it’ll likely disturb or challenge… Things are simple, its humans that make it harder than it needs to be. 

The whole point of bureaucracy is to distract, hinder, and ultimately force you to give up, the reason, societal normalcy does not like change. It can’t abide it, governments talk of change but its wordplay, they’ll shuffle a few things around, slap a coat of paint on it and give it a fancy name but it is the exact same thing.

Why are we using an outdated system for the calendar? This isn’t the 21st Century, it’s the 20th, its right there in the numbers, 2023, the two thousandth, and twentieth third year of Ano domini (translates to in the year of our lord – whichever lord that might be this year…) The Gregorian monks miscalculated, but it suits societies needs for it to be this way.

Single or simple favours, just like plans, should always have wiggle room, and always need the finer print looked at carefully. Just because it looks good, doesn’t always mean that it will be good.

Conclusion: Youth of Swords – The Heart of the Matter.

“Discovering new ways of communicating your ideas and putting them into action”.

Apt really, it’s a bit like a reclusion, here I am sitting at the screen typing, and here in the Gay Tarot, the Youth of Swords or the Page of Swords traditionally is typing while sitting at the screen, which does make me wonder – on the screen in the card is someone else sitting at a screen typing?

A reclusion if I ever did see, what will really nip the noggin’ is when I suggest that the Youth of Swords, is actually seeing the back of my head on his screen, as I type on mine. 

‘A wizard wants you to find her some rare spell components.'

Perhaps the point in this adventure, has been to ask thoughtful questions, challenge the norms as we see them, and explore the possibilities of where we can go. 

Maybe it is time to find out just exactly what we are capable of, when we begin a brand-new adventure, on a path that we forge on our own.

Thanks for hopping by, see you next time.