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Major Arcana · 7

The Chariotfor Libra · Love and Relationships

The Chariot tarot card

"Willpower without direction is just exhaustion."

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On the card

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.

Upright
VictoryDeterminationControlSuccess

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

Reversed

You are overwhelmed by the world unfolding around you-- without clear direction you are speeding in an unknown direction

Its place in the deck.

Major ArcanaCard 7
One of the 22 Major Arcana. They point to the large themes and turning points in a life, not the day to day. When one comes up, the reading is about something bigger than this week.
StageThe outer world
After the Fool, the Major Arcana run in three stages of seven: the outer world (1 to 7), the turn inward (8 to 14) and the return (15 to 21). This one is in the outer world: building a workable self out of will, learning and structure.

Where it shows up.

In the stars
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MarsThis card's planet
Drive, anger, and the push to go get what you want.
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The Chariot for Libra in Love and Relationships

The Harmonizer

Mars against Venus-ruled Libra is the harder planet arriving in the softer register. It will feel like being asked to do without something Libra normally uses to smooth things over. Upright, this is happening out in the visible world, where other people can see it and respond to it.

When reading about relationships through a Libra lens, the Chariot card says that you feel like your person is a mirror you keep checking to make sure you are still acceptable, a scale where you measure whether you are giving exactly as much as you receive, and something that requires constant small negotiations to keep level. This has either made you a devoted partner who forgets to ask for what they need, or made you someone who can love very deeply precisely because you stopped waiting for permission to have preferences. The thing you're not saying out loud is the thing that matters most. The Libra blind spot in it is being the one who breaks the tie, names the problem, or asks for something first.

In practice that can look like a turning point rather than an incident, or meeting someone who changes the shape of it. Whatever form it takes, it is happening in the visible world where other people can see it.

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