firemaiden
I am looking at the Thoth Prince of Swords.
The Thoth prince describes an alarming situation. A charioteer is driving along at a furious pace -- his steeds are miniature versions of himself, falling down, tripping over the wires, about to be run over by the very chariot they are pulling -- they speak to me of a situation where a person is driving himself too hard, has enslaved aspects of himself, and is running himself into the ground. The sword he wields looks poised to cut the cords holding the three mini-egos.
This view assumes the little men are pulling the chariot... and the chariot is moving toward the viewer.
What if the the chariot is moving away from the viewer? -- then these three little men are not pulling the chariot but being dragged by it... like the death of Hektor... Achilles dragging him behind the chariot (x three).
Or if they are not being dragged, even worse -- they are hanging on, trying to hitch a ride... and desperation of the hangers on, who thought they were thrown a life-line -- the image reminds me of survivors in a life boat in the wake of the Titanic, cutting off the hands of the drowning still in the water to prevent them from pulling the boat under by climbing aboard...
But since all the men are miniatures of the image of the large prince, they must be metaphors of self -- metaphors of a self desperate to slash away the parts of self that are dragging self down - a desperate bid for freedom, a need to escape one escape, to start anew
IN any case the card describes a situation of cruelty, desperation, being willing to make painful changes in order to survive.
The Thoth prince describes an alarming situation. A charioteer is driving along at a furious pace -- his steeds are miniature versions of himself, falling down, tripping over the wires, about to be run over by the very chariot they are pulling -- they speak to me of a situation where a person is driving himself too hard, has enslaved aspects of himself, and is running himself into the ground. The sword he wields looks poised to cut the cords holding the three mini-egos.
This view assumes the little men are pulling the chariot... and the chariot is moving toward the viewer.
What if the the chariot is moving away from the viewer? -- then these three little men are not pulling the chariot but being dragged by it... like the death of Hektor... Achilles dragging him behind the chariot (x three).
Or if they are not being dragged, even worse -- they are hanging on, trying to hitch a ride... and desperation of the hangers on, who thought they were thrown a life-line -- the image reminds me of survivors in a life boat in the wake of the Titanic, cutting off the hands of the drowning still in the water to prevent them from pulling the boat under by climbing aboard...
But since all the men are miniatures of the image of the large prince, they must be metaphors of self -- metaphors of a self desperate to slash away the parts of self that are dragging self down - a desperate bid for freedom, a need to escape one escape, to start anew
IN any case the card describes a situation of cruelty, desperation, being willing to make painful changes in order to survive.