Waite–Smith, Trump 7
The Chariot
What you can see
An armoured figure stands beneath a star-patterned canopy, with two contrasting sphinxes in front. A slender implement is held upright beside the chariot.
What Waite says
Waite describes conquest through mind and outward accomplishment, while insisting that this does not establish inward spiritual liberation. His prose calls the held implement a sword; the pictured form looks staff-like.
Waite · Part II, §2 · printed pp. 96–99 ↗Edition and image credits
Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.