The Chariot

Düz

The seventh term is always the transition, and Zain is the arrow — that which crosses from one place to another. Papus's Chariot is the first septenary completed and carried over: will, knowledge and action have produced a result that now moves under its own power. Victory, but victory as a passage rather than an arrival. The two sphinxes pull in different directions and are held to one road by the driver alone.

Ters

Motion with no one driving — momentum carrying a thing well past the point at which it should have stopped. Reversed can also mark the victory that turns out to have been the easy half: the crossing made, and nothing prepared for the far side.

Karşılıklar

Papus's number

7

Hebrew letter

Zain (ז)

Hieroglyph

An arrow; a weapon — that which crosses

Septenary

First septenary (1–7), the Divine world — seventh and transitional term, carrying the Divine series over into the world of Man

Divinatory sense

Victory

Açılımda

At the commencement the matter starts already in motion, carried over from something the querent finished earlier. In opposition, a force with its own momentum that argument will not slow. At equilibrium the Chariot is unstable by nature — it holds only while it moves. As the result Papus means victory literally, but read the position after it: a transition always hands on to something.