Arcus Arcanum - The Chariot

Greetings,

Here is an image of this card:

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A man is riding a chariot pulled by two rams. The landscape is a snow covered mountain with a castle behind the rider. The man welds a battle axe in one hand and the other balances himself on the cart.

According to my favourite tarotist author Eden Gray, the ram is a symbol of power, war and leadership. The snow capped peaks indicate heights of abstract thought. Unlike many traditional packs the animals pulling the cart are not pulling in two different directions, these rams are headed in the same direction.

The symbolism of this card may suggest undivided conquest, battle, travel or triumph.


freddie

It's Thor!!

Think about it: the only difference is the weapon; Thor wields a hammer while this figure wields an axe (a rather small one, proportionately speaking, at that).

The ram-drawn chariot was a giveaway.

Additional Thor cues:

Look at the sky; looks like storm clouds to me. And all those birds wheeling on high. Thor = thunderer.

In ordinary Chariot parlance, this relates to very strong control over direction; lightning strikes are very precise. It can't be easy directing rams either!

Morwenna said:

It's Thor!!

Think about it: the only difference is the weapon; Thor wields a hammer while this figure wields an axe (a rather small one, proportionately speaking, at that).

The ram-drawn chariot was a giveaway.

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May be you confused Thor with Hephaestus from Greek mithology? This God wielded hammer and anvil.

I think author is right and correct here. Thor wields an exe. Double side exe with two blades.

This axe has a name of two runes. "thurs" that means Thor himself and + "dag". That is mean "double side axe". So that "thrurs dag" means "Thor's double side axe".

It is symbolism of the sacred Polar Year, which, in turn, deliberately linked with solar symbolism - with the mystery of death and resurrection of the Sun, during its annual march along the circle. In this symbolic complex one side axe linked to the rising part of the year, "Easter", spring-half year, double side axe marks the sacred year as a whole, its two cyclic forms - uplink and downlink.

Axe is not only a symbol of primordial solar mysteries, but their tool - something with which the year "dissected" into two parts; with the help of which Darkness amazed and Light is released.

It is the symbol of the struggle between good and evil (Black and white rocks).

Thor was the destroyer of evil.