The Wheel of Fortune

A turn in the cycle. Circumstances shift, often beyond your control, and a new season arrives. Move with the turning rather than against it.

cycles · change · fate · turning point · luck

A run of poor luck, or resistance to a change that has already come. Holding the wheel still only tires the hands. Look at what this turn is teaching.

bad luck · resistance · stagnation · unwelcome change

A great wooden waterwheel turns on a stone footing beside a thatched mill, the stream pouring white over its paddles and breaking into waves below. A red fox scrambles up its left side, a long green snake slides down its right, and a white crane stands on the very top before a pale full moon. In the four corners, on clouds, appear a crane in flight, an ox, a roaring tiger and a traveller in a straw hat.

In Rider–Waite–Smith tarot the Wheel carries a sphinx on top, a snake going down and a jackal-headed figure rising, with an angel, an eagle, a lion and a bull in the corners. It is the turning of fate: what rises falls, and what falls rises. Here the corner figures become a traveller, a crane, a tiger and an ox, and the wheel is a mill wheel, which turns only because the water keeps moving.

A turning point in the bond, or a chance meeting. Timing plays its part. Be ready when the wheel comes round.

A change in fortunes, a new cycle at work. Adapt quickly, and stay humble when things go well.

Look at what has changed lately that you did not choose. Name one way you could use it rather than resist it, and try that this week.

Yes

The wheel is turning in your favour; the condition is to move with the change, not against it.

Which season of your life is turning, and what would help you turn with it?