Tarot With A Twist

Driving Yourself to Ruin

How Ego, a Reversed Fool, and the Nine of Swords Create a Self-Made Prison. Download the PDF Spread Study Guide to Find Your Way Out.

December 5, 2025

Deck Used: Rider-Waite Tarot / Cards Pulled:

Numerology: 7+9 = 16/7

What happens when you refuse to let go and move in contradiction to the Chariot? Well, that’s the pull for today.

Victory, my friend, becomes twisted. Control vaporized because you drove the Chariot right into the wall. Now, chaos consumes because, regardless of warnings, you choose the path of no return — wisdom ignored (7). Intuition suffocated by your behavior. You believed, yes YOU, knew more than the good Lord (God, Universe, Divine) above, pick your protector, it doesn’t matter. The damage arrived, and now, the price of resistance demands collection.

Now you’re blocked. The Fool’s carefree spirit, stripped away. The energy enjoyed, the clarity gained through risk by faith, has ceased to exist.

Until you reverse course, you’ll live in the confines of fear. Keep rejecting divine guidance, and the destruction comes quick, the Tower energy in full stride. But it’s not your soul it’s after, it wants your mind. It’ll become the cement blocks that lie upon your chest. You’ll struggle to breathe. Thoughts become fragmented into a million pieces, with no place to escape. Escape no longer works as fear wakes you in the dead of night (9S). The weight of the universe comes crashing down. Not as punishment, but a lesson to let go. You can’t always drive the Chariot. You must let the universe guide. Slow down, release control, and follow the road where it leads.

A forced outcome causes destruction. That’s the Chariot reversed. It launches you out of its seat because YOU pulled the reins. It forced the horses to split, ripping the Chariot apart, when all the while the universe commanded, “LET GO, full speed ahead.”

What’s the root cause that led to this outcome, you ask?

Ego took hold; it controlled you. Every victory was taken for granted. You didn’t listen. You refused to trust, and now anxiety bears its weight: finances, job, health, family, stability; each sword on the wall, a slash through the mind. You filled your subconscious with hostility, and now it repays — it didn’t realize you were joking. Each phrase: this sucks, I’m broke, I’m dying. Now it’s manifested. Hell becomes reality.

If you want to break free from the chaos and get back on course, the sixteen provide the answer. After the collapse (16), the one energy promises a new dawn. A path to peace if you follow the rule of the seven. A sabbath rest, and I’m not speaking religious here. I’m telling you, break away from the world. Go within and escape the mental prison of the Nine of Swords. Embrace the Hermit’s energy (9). Because God knows you’re going to need it.

My advice is simple: seek solitude in prayer. Meditate daily. Set your mind free. Then, when in a state of awareness, after all hell let loose, listen to the lessons whispered from above. Follow the advice and watch the turmoil cease.

Or, keep gripping those reins and watch the destruction arrive right on schedule.


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