What the card describes as a feeling
The state is want that has been turned into momentum. It is not calm. The card's image is of opposing forces being held on one course, and emotionally that translates as a person managing conflicting impulses in order to keep going in your direction.
Pursuit like this is flattering while it lasts and is often about the pursuit as much as about you. That is not cynicism, it is what a card about drive describes.
Upright
Upright the reading is confident, focused attraction with willpower behind it. The person is prepared to work for the connection and is likely to be direct about wanting it, though direct is not the same as open.
Effort is the key word. Feelings under this card are being actively sustained rather than simply experienced, which is why they can be intense and still not be restful for anyone involved.
Reversed
Reversed the control fails. One reading is feeling that has scattered, where the person no longer knows what they want and the pursuit has stalled. Another is force applied badly: pushing where pushing is not wanted, or aggression under the surface of interest.
A third is someone holding themselves back so hard that nothing shows at all, all the effort spent on suppression rather than movement.
Outside romance
A colleague reading as this card wants a result and has decided you are part of getting it. In friendship it can be someone determined to repair or advance the relationship, sometimes at a pace you have not agreed to. In a family it often marks a relative pushing for a reconciliation on their own timetable, which is a real feeling and not automatically a welcome one.
What a feelings position can and cannot tell you
The feelings slot is a modern positional idea; what came before asked about circumstances rather than about the inside of a named person. The card offers a quality of feeling and stops there. The subject is added by the reader.
Because of that, a card cannot tell you what one particular person feels. It gives you a shape and you decide whose it is. Reading it as fact converts the deck into a way of avoiding a question you could put to someone, and that is where the practice stops being reflective.
With the Chariot the practical matter is pace. If a pursuit is happening at a speed that does not suit you, that is worth saying out loud, and saying it is more informative than another spread.
Questions people ask about this
Does the Chariot mean someone will pursue me?
It describes drive directed at an outcome, which readers often take as pursuit. It is a description of a quality, not a forecast of behaviour.
Is the Chariot an emotional card?
It is a card of effort more than of tenderness. Feeling under it is being actively steered, which makes it intense rather than comfortable.
What does the Chariot reversed mean as feelings?
Scattered want, force applied where it is unwelcome, or a person spending all their energy on holding a feeling down.