The charioteer holds no reins.The ChariotLightning strikes a tower and knocks off its crown; two figures fall headfirst, and the crown was never part of the structure to begin with.The Tower

Card combination

The Chariot and The Tower

Momentum meeting a wall. The Chariot is forward drive held together by opposing forces in harness; The Tower is the point at which the harness fails. The tradition reads the pair as force applied hard to something that was not going to yield, and it is one of the deck's more direct warnings.

Together

Momentum meeting a wall. The Chariot is forward drive held together by opposing forces in harness; The Tower is the point at which the harness fails. The tradition reads the pair as force applied hard to something that was not going to yield, and it is one of the deck's more direct warnings.

In love

Pushing a situation that will not be pushed. Associated with the moment someone forces a conversation and gets a different answer than the one they were driving at.

In career

A hard push that broke something. The pair is not fatalistic about it: The Chariot's energy is real and the reading is about direction rather than effort.

The advice

Momentum is not the problem here. The pair asks whether you have checked where it is pointed recently.

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