Card of the Week: Wheel of Fortune
Description: The World Tree stands in the center of comic cycles of change. Sun and stars frame the corners of the visible universe, while butterflies spread their wings flying into the heavens. Green leaves crown the top of the card—a sign of vibrant life, and then descend to the bottom, feeding roots for next year’s growth. A chrysalis hangs off the bottom of a seasonal wheel, deep in the process of transformation.
Meaning: The Wheel of Fortune is the midway point on the Fool’s journey. In this card they learn they are part of a much bigger cosmos than they ever dreamed of. The Fool steps into the reality that the world around them is animate, mutable, and agentic. Within this cosmic dance there are many cycles. No longer able to bumble along in ignorance, believing in their own omnipotence, they must contend with the invitation to surrender to forces beyond their control. In this realization they are invited to see themselves as a part of a whole rather than apart from it.
Reading Points: This is an invitation to surrender to the change. The Wheel of Fortune invites you to consider yielding your dominance into the animate world around you—there you are met within an emergent world responding and responsive to your presence. You cannot predict which way your path will turn, but you can predict one thing: it will not be static. When you surrender to this life force of the wild cosmos you will not be the same person for the journey. This card invites you to into fundamental paradox: when you plunge into the unknown you move away from your fate and into your destiny.
Alexandra Ross Works 