Il Carro

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Il significato principale di Il Carro è Forza di volontà nel superare gli ostacoli. Al dritto, solitamente indica Vittoria, forza di volontà, autocontrollo, determinazione. Simboleggia l'unione ; rovesciata, potrebbe suggerire Perdita di controllo, aggressività, sconfitta, mancanza di direzione. Può indica.

Immagini della carta

Un guerriero sta su un carro sotto un baldacchino stellato, con le lune crescenti sulle spalle. Il carro è trainato da due sfingi, una nera e una bianca, anche se non sono visibili le redini. Un fiume e un castello riempiono lo sfondo.

Significato al dritto

Vittoria, forza di volontà, autocontrollo, determinazione. Simboleggia l'unione delle forze opposte (le sfingi bianche e nere) attraverso la pura volontà di superare gli ostacoli.

Significato invertito

Perdita di controllo, aggressività, sconfitta, mancanza di direzione. Può indicare che sei stato lacerato da emozioni o forze contrastanti, portando fuori rotta il tuo percorso.

Amore, carriera, denaro e crescita

Amore

Innamorato, Il Carro indica Forza di volontà nel superare gli ostacoli. Rileggilo confrontandolo con il modo in cui si comporta effettivamente la relazione e con ciò che scegliete entrambi.

Carriera

In materia di carriera, Il Carro indica Forza di volontà nel superare gli ostacoli. Inizia individuando quali risorse controlli e quale sarà la tua prossima mossa.

Soldi

In materia di soldi, Il Carro indica Forza di volontà nel superare gli ostacoli. Non considerare una lettura simbolica come una conclusione di investimento: segui i fatti, il budget e la tua tolleranza al rischio.

Crescita personale

Per la crescita personale, Il Carro indica Forza di volontà nel superare gli ostacoli. Annota la domanda che solleva, quindi trasformala in un'azione che puoi effettivamente verificare.

Sì o no

Diritto

Sì

Rovesciata

No

Questa è la nostra lettura veloce, basata sulla direzione in cui tende il significato della carta. Le tradizioni non sono d'accordo sulle singole carte, e un "Forse" deve essere valutato rispetto alla posizione nello spread e alla situazione reale piuttosto che essere preso come una risposta di una sola parola.

Testo originale di Waite (1911)

Simbolismo interiore (originale)

An erect and princely figure carrying a drawn sword and corresponding, broadly speaking, to the traditional description which I have given in the first part. On the shoulders of the victorious hero are supposed to be the Urim and Thummim. He has led captivity captive; he is conquest on all planes—in the mind, in science, in progress, in certain trials of initiation. He has thus replied to the Sphinx, and it is on this account that I have accepted the variation of Eliphas Lévi; two sphinxes thus draw his chariot. He is above all things triumph in the mind.

It is to be understood for this reason (a) that the question of the sphinx is concerned with a Mystery of Nature and not of the world of Grace, to which the charioteer could offer no answer; (b) that the planes of his conquest are manifest or external and not within himself; (c) that the liberation which he effects may leave himself in the bondage of the logical understanding; (d) that the tests of initiation through which he has passed in triumph are to be understood physically or rationally and (e) that if he came to the pillars of that Temple between which the High Priestess is seated, he could not open the scroll called Tora, nor if she questioned him could he answer. He is not hereditary royalty and he is not priesthood.

Significato originale al dritto

Succor, providence; also war, triumph, presumption, vengeance, trouble.

Significato originale invertito

Riot, quarrel, dispute, litigation, defeat.

Citato da A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), illustrato da Pamela Colman Smith. Il testo è di pubblico dominio.

Origini del mito e dei simboli

Triumph is the deck's own original name. The sphinxes are Lévi's substitution, and Plato's chariot was attached by later hands.

Documented imagery

Attested by surviving objects or texts

This card is where the whole deck got its name

The oldest name for the trumps is trionfi — triumphs. The image tradition is the Roman triumphal procession, and Petrarch's Trionfi, with its file of triumphal cars each conquering the one before it: Love conquers man, Chastity conquers Love, Death conquers Chastity, Fame conquers Death, Time conquers Fame, Eternity conquers Time. The whole run of trumps is that same procession of "the next one beats the last one," and the Chariot is the card that draws the motif most plainly.

Fonte The trumps' original name trionfi; the image tradition of Petrarch's Trionfi (I Trionfi, fourteenth century)

Esoteric correspondence

A sourced traditional claim, but constructed inside an occult system

Two sphinxes, and a riddle already answered

Older decks had two horses drawing the car. Waite states that he has "accepted the variation of Eliphas Lévi" and put two sphinxes there instead, and writes that the charioteer "replied to the Sphinx" — an allusion to Oedipus solving the riddle. He then discounts that victory in the same breath: the riddle of the sphinx belongs to "a Mystery of Nature," and should the charioteer come to the two pillars where the High Priestess sits, "he could not open the scroll called Tora."

Fonte Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911, The Chariot; Eliphas Lévi's reconstruction of the card

The Urim and Thummim on his shoulders

Waite writes that the charioteer carries Urim and Thummim on his shoulders — the objects on the breastplate of the Hebrew high priest used to inquire of God (Exodus 28:30). On the card the shoulder-pieces are drawn as two moon-like faces. Once again: a Greek sphinx and a Hebrew priestly implement, side by side on the same card.

Fonte Exodus 28:30; Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911, The Chariot

Cancer: advancing inside a shell

The Golden Dawn assigns the Chariot to Cancer (Hebrew letter Cheth). The car is a hard shell, and the figure inside it is both protected and confined — which explains why the victory on this card always tastes of being held together by will, rather than of winning easily.

Fonte Golden Dawn Book T zodiacal attributions

Modern reading

Popular only since the twentieth century; unrelated to where the card came from

Plato's chariot of the soul: a fine fit, but fitted afterwards

The passage most often quoted about this card is Plato's Phaedrus: the soul as a charioteer driving two horses, one black and one white, one pulling up and one pulling down, the driver's task being to get them going the same way. The black and white sphinxes on the card answer to it beautifully — but those sphinxes were put there by Lévi in the 1850s, and there is no line of descent between Plato's image and the fifteenth-century triumphal car. It works well as a tool for understanding the card. As a source it is simply wrong.

Fonte Modern popular reading; the chariot of the soul is in Plato's Phaedrus 246a–254e

Scritto da BESTAROT, non citato da fonti storiche. Ogni affermazione è contrassegnata da quanto bene è dimostrata; gli strati interpretativi moderni sono utili per la lettura, ma non costituiscono l’origine storica della carta.

Studia il tema: Mito e origini dei simboli (Accademia capitolo 6)