Chariot Wisdom Reading

Chariot Wisdom Question:  Are we progressing or just chasing our tails?  Conversely, are we part of the rhythm or off on a tangent?  (In other words is time more like an arrow or more like a cycle?)

14-Temperance-Rose Quartz on 8 of Swords.  I’m trying to limit reality to how my mind works.  Obviously, time is both arrow and cycle, and Temperance says I have to do better with being able to hold opposite ideas in my mind and my understanding of the world.  There is creative tension in both sides being true.  Jupiter in Gemini says let the doubleness (Gemini) of things expand (Jupiter) my mind.

21-Universe-Onyx on 10 of Wands and Knight of Wands.   The Universe is what it is, and that is HUGE!  Human minds are finite and can’t help but be overburdened (10 of Wands) when trying to understand everything about it.  Saturn in Sagittarius says as much as we speculate and philosophize (Sagittarius), there are limits (Saturn) to what we can know.  Knight of Wands says we have to act on partial evidence.  Otherwise, nothing would ever happen because we can never know everything!

3-Empress-Malachite on Knight of Wands.  Life force goes against the law of entropy--life comes from and causes more organization of matter, not less.  Entropy finally succeeds on the individual level with death, but even that continues to feed more life and more organization.  So we have the arrow of life moving forward, along with the cycle of life and death.  Perhaps the Knight of Wands riding upward and forward is showing that evolution is an arrow, ever improving the complexity and usefulness of life forms, as a complement to the Empress’s emphasis on the cycle of life, passed on from mother to child.

And all this brings us to the concept of the spiral, which is a cycle that rises to a higher level with each turn.  (In this case, thinking in 3 dimensions is probably more accurate than in 2!) 

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold

Can the center hold?  I think having Universe in our reading here says yes, it can.  Maybe not in a way we expect, but in the way that nature has of healing herself.

For the final word, let’s look at the Chariot card again.  Wheels make forward movement possible, giving us the perfect combination of arrow and cycle.