Well, then there is the chariot. With its HUGE wheels and amazingly stout pillars holding up a canopy that seems to extend well beyond the confines of the chariot. As if the method (the chariot) is greater than the journey. Okay.
Then there are the sphinx thingies. I am not going to set myself nuts trying to figure out the esoteric meanings here - but I see four of them. Two white-ish, two black-ish. One is a bull w/ cat feet body. Another is a cat w/ bull feet and body. The chicken head is on the Sphinx (Like the Big One, in Egypt) body, and the Sphinx has a chicken body. Things, really, they aren't what they appear. Okie dokie.
Back to the disk held by the figure...it is similar to the overall image of the card - it has a red center, a white ring becoming blue - just like the red chariot, the white rings and the blue of the canopy. So, perhaps, what is within mirrors what is without? Or is it the other way around?
Bottom line - this is a crazy mix-ed up card. Our Heroine finally starts to get a clue, and BAM! here comes the Chariot to challenge what we think we know. Are we within or without? Are we enlightened? Or are we enlightened to only a point - is there still more to go? Those Crabs are shifty water critters. Is what we SEE really what we see? Is there more? Can we handle it? Are we in control of the uncertainty? Can we maintain the balance that we thought we found in The Lovers?
Ooo very interesting interpretation! Going along with what you're seeing, it might be that before moving forward, take a moment to review? Regardless of anything, the chariot is a ride. It could be like Bette Davis said 'Hold on it's gonna be a bumpy ride,' or it could be smooth sailing. Something I try to do, when I look at a card, though not always successfully, is to imagine it in a 3 card reading: what would it mean in the past? What would it mean in the present and what would it mean heading into the future? Looking at it right now, it's in your present. Heading off into a still unknown future, but still an adventure! And, Anne of Green Gables always said, ' Each day is a new day with no mistakes in it yet' (I think that was how she put it). :)
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