Chariot Arcana Novels & Stories

An upside down knight with a wand laid before me. “Ahh, you are about make an impulsive decision, driven by anger and recklessness.” Ryuu said, motioning me to flip the next card. The next card held 10 cups stacked on top of one another, the card was upside down again. Ryuu frowned at the card. “This will result in a loss of unity within your home. Many will be forced to choose sides.” I flipped the last card over, this time it was up right. It was labeled the Ace of pentacles.

Big Easy doesn’t look so easy anymore, I chuckle, watching as he runs his tongue over his upper teeth beneath his closed lips. Tarot lays out three final cards—six of wands, the chariot and the sun. She gasps, interpreting them together with the other cards in a larger picture. Her eyes flick up to Ian’s and she smiles wickedly. “Strategos,” she hisses, but in the dead silent room, she might as well have shouted. If Ian is trying to hide his shock, he’s failing miserably. Sean, what’s strategos? And why’s it important to Ian?

My mind brushed off the thought. It was probably someone I had not met yet. Ivan, the back of my mind insisted. "Ah...so there is one who has claimed your soul. It will only be a matter of time before he claims your heart then your body. And this time you will run to me saying 'Kogo! You were right!'." She flipped the next card. The chariot. Awe was clear on her slightly wrinkled face. " The chariot. You are on a journey. New world's await you, Cara."

It depicted a woman holding the head of a lion and facing its open jaws, controlling the beast, keeping it from eating her. "The future. Strength," Rurik translated. "Together you can control your destiny, but stand apart and all will burn to ash around you." The woman touched both their hands, her eyes soft and serious. Then she turned over the next card. A naked couple entwined together. Charlotte knew very little about tarot, but she recognized that card. "The Lovers," Charlotte said. The old woman nodded, and Rurik translated again. "Opposition and attraction. You must both choose between your desires. Family or each other. You cannot split apart."

The first time I meet my girlfriend, Nadine Grant‘s parents, she stops me at the door. Her childhood friend and neighbor, Nick Lockwood, has just pulled a tarot card. The card says I'll attract trouble today, so I shouldn't go inside. Before I can say a word, Nadine reaches for the gifts in my hands. "Wait in the car for a while," she says. "When dinner's over, we'll go home together." I don't let go. "I've spent over a month getting ready to meet your parents, and you're not even letting me in?" Displeasure is written all over her face. "Andy, I'm doing this for your own good!" Before I can argue, she shoves me back into the car. Nick smiles at me through the car window. He says, "

Charlie smiled slightly before he said, “Don’t worry. I will draw up a hexagram to give you a divination, then.” As he spoke, Charlie grabbed the five copper coins before throwing them out again. Then, Charlie looked at the hexagram, and when he saw that the position of the copper coins and the sides of the copper coins were facing up, he said lightly, “The hexagram shows that you have the fate of a Lone Star. You are destined to not have any descendants at all!” After he was done speaking, Charlie looked at him before he asked seriously, “Do your sons and daughters look like you?”