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Of the twenty-two figures that make up the major arcana of the tarot, the Chariot is probably the most commonplace. While the tenth arcanum is a wheel, it\'s The Wheel of Fortune, not just any old wagon wheel. But arcanum VII is neither the Chariot of Fire or the Chariot of the Gods \\u2013 just the plain old chariot. Usually, it is interpreted as a symbol of the will in its lower and higher aspects. In this episode, Phil notes that the Chariot can also symbolize something as ordinary as new car. Of course, here on Weird Studies, no car is just a car, and we like to think that Youngblood Priest, the protagonist of the 1972 film Super Fly, would agree. A car also a tool, a medium, a token of mastery, an atmospheric disturbance, a means of manifestation, a spaceship...

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REFERENCES

Rachel Pollack, Tarot Wisdom
\\nJordan Parks Jr., Super Fly
\\nOur Known Friend, Meditations on the Tarot
\\nWeird Studies, Episode 144 on \\u201cHellraiser\\u201d
\\nPlato, Phaedrus
\\nVanessa Onwuemezi, Dark Neighborhood
\\nJ. G. Ballard, Crash
\\nPaul Virilio, War and Cinema
\\nKarl Marx, Grundrisse
\\nWeird Studies, Episode 26 with Michael Garfield