Major Arcana · 7
The Chariotfor Gemini · Self and Identity
"Willpower without direction is just exhaustion."
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A chariot carries an egyptian across the desert. The chariot is the vehicle that helps us move swiftly into action, we guide the chariot but it takes us on the journey as it sees fit.
Things are moving forward (with or without your input), to guide yourself you need decisive movements and high focus. You must be sure of your footing or the fast movement will unbalance you
You are overwhelmed by the world unfolding around you-- without clear direction you are speeding in an unknown direction
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The Chariot for Gemini in Self and Identity
The Communicator
Mars sits outside Gemini's usual Mercury register, so this one arrives as unfamiliar weather. Upright, this is happening out in the visible world, where other people can see it and respond to it.
When reading about yourself through a Gemini lens, the Chariot card says that you feel like you are a collection of different selves depending on who is listening, something you can understand if you just find the right framework, and a project that requires constant revision (or finally some rest). This has either made you genuinely adaptable and impossible to pin down in good ways or left you fragmented, unsure which version is the real one. You have been so focused on who you think you should be that you haven't checked in with who you actually are. The Gemini blind spot in it is stillness, silence, the moment when talking stops and you have to feel what you actually feel, the weight of having chosen one thing and not the other.
In practice that can look like something you cannot un-see about yourself, or a season ending. Whatever form it takes, it is happening in the visible world where other people can see it.
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