Across the week, if I draw the same card twice, I pay attention. When I draw it consecutive days; my spidey antennae starts sparking. While the Chariot isn’t a bad card, it does send a direct message: the weird is coming.
The Chariot operates across three fields of movement: physical change, spiritual transformation, and an altered state of consciousness. To travel with the Chariot, is to be the Chariot, be the horses that are powering it, and be the charioteer that is guiding it across the sky. Then be them all as one.
Physical change feels pretty obvious, the New Year is a week away. That drum has been beaten so hard no one is listening anymore. Next.
Spiritual transformation, however, is a complex matter. The smoke of mysticism is interwoven into an altered state of consciousness. Ezekiel was a chariot guy. I’ll start with him. He was a biblical figure who had a vision of a chariot of fire descending through the clouds. There were four creatures on the chariot. Each figure had four wings and four faces: human (the mind), lion (courage), ox (strength), and eagle (insight). A hand reached out from the chariot and gave Ezekiel a scroll. “Eat this scroll”—”And I ate it and it was sweet as honey.”
Ezekiel’s assignment was anything but sweet. The rest of his story was a prophecy; warning the people that they better get their shit together because there is a payday someday. And that’s happening at the end of four years. Numbers in these stories are as metaphoric as the stories themselves. Still, it more than tingles my spidey sense. Downright makes me shiver.
How do I interpret two Chariots at this time in my life? By listening to my dreams. The dreaming is always on; it’s a running narrative. Dreams are not stand-alone events. And we don’t have to be asleep to experience them. The dreaming is a running narrative of our unconscious life bleeding into our consciousness. The dream I had about a Nautilus shell, is connected to the dream about walking in the desert, and to the dream about taking up a new Tarot project. Something magical is going to change, soon: four hours, four days, four months….you get the point.
Gil Stafford is the author of five books, a spiritual guide, life coach, alchemist of the soul, and practitioner of Tarot. In his former lives, he played professional baseball, was a college baseball coach, a university president, and an Episcopal priest. Life is a pilgrimage and Gil has taken many, including walking Ireland coast-to-coast.
