The Tower and (16/7)

The archetypal system of Tarot is ancient. Although records link its beginnings to the Middle Ages, there are indications of its origination occurring much earlier – perhaps even by thousands of years and from distant civilizations. The Tarot represents and reflects (it is) the story of life: each card is a micro-story of the profound, deeply-embedded and commonly-lived experiences of our human journey. Your core Tarot encoding is unveiled by adding your individual birth numbers together and reducing them down: in this case, your encoded Tarot archetype is #7 The Chariot. Expounding on this archetype, your birth numbers have also been added in such a way (a system developed by the Amberstones) as to bring forward one (and sometimes two) other major arcana archetypes that also live within you. Together, these symbiotic fields of energy create an additional dynamic and unveil the complexities of your Soul Print’s distinct journey. ______

You are the energetic archetypal combination of (#16 in the Tarot) and The Chariot (#7 in the Tarot). As such, you represent a dynamic quality-set and a duality that emerges from its coupling and its energetic feedback loop.

This emergent archetype and energy signature is one that represents your life story and your specific path to navigate. As with all encodings, inherent with Tower-Chariot lies an undeniable soul-growth journey.

In addition to the data below, please absorb the imagery on each card – the similarities and the differences – as the symbols provide infinite information about your encodings.

Written by Ruth Ann and Wald Amberstone: “The Tower and The Chariot share the issues of balance, control, energy, solidity and war. They contrast in their ways of handling every issue. The violent overthrow of rigid and ambitious structure contrasts with the invisible battle for balance and self-control. External contrasts with internal energy. The vulnerability of fortification contrasts with the durability of character.

“The Tower is the tumultuous power at the center of everything. It is the constant potential for an occasional experience of the unexpected, the violent and sudden disruption of normal conditions; the power of complete surprise and the feeling of head-over-heels. The job of The Tower is to uproot dug-in positions and vested interests, to be the event horizon beyond which lies the unpredictable and unaccountable. The Tower is the end of complacency. The Chariot is the steady flow of ceaseless intention that is the warrior in everything. Its job is to harness all competing impulses and energies, to overcome all www.TheAlchemyofHolism.com obstacles and resistances, and against all odds, carry everything to its destiny. On this journey, everything becomes what it must become and nothing is lacking. Unintegrated and imperfectly realized, The Tower can be capricious, frightening and disastrous. It can rob effort of its proper reward, and destroy faith in both and mercy. It can be melodramatic, or it can be pointless, random and gratuitously painful. The Chariot can vacillate and side-step, or turn tail and run. It can be vainglorious and posturing, or overly sensitive and ineffectual. It can lose heart in the middle of a task, and mope.

“Together, they are afraid of nothing, can stand successfully against any opponent, either internal or external, and when the time comes, they will rise to the ultimate challenge and be equal to it.”

You are an embodiment of the “both-and” of these archetypes, as well as the pinnacle point and “in-between” of them – the resultant entity – created by their relationship. You are here to evolve the cooperative, symbiotic relationship between these archetypes.

When understood, accepted and allowed to flow naturally, the Tower-Chariot will lead your soul where it wants to go - toward acceptance, clarity, balance, groundedness, grace, skill, confidence, successful navigation, and the embodied actualization of your power. It is when you see, understand and approach this path from your natural place of wholeness that your journey will able to be harnessed so it can unfold optimally and with least effort.

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