The Wheel of Fortune — “The Wheel Weaves”

You can control a lot, but not everything

The Wheel of Fortune is change and new opportunities. A chance, a gift. Change for the better, growth. Or going round in circles. It can mean cycles, life-changing turns or events that keep repeating.

The Wheel is card X, a turning point. After the Hermit, life starts moving again. Circumstances can change suddenly, new people, opportunities and twists can appear, one stage can end and another begin. The Wheel reminds you: “You can control a lot, but not everything.”

What isn’t up to us

It’s a situation that may be out of our direct control and asks us to adapt to new conditions. It takes understanding that every downturn is followed by an upturn. The Wheel teaches you to accept that life goes in cycles: ups follow downs, the old goes, the new comes. And for the first time a person really faces the fact that life doesn’t always go to plan.

What is up to us

But the Wheel isn’t only fate. It’s also a loop, when people play out the same scenarios until they learn an important lesson.

A woman once asked: why can’t I get married? The Wheel of Fortune spoke about her lesson going round in circles: she lives the same scenario over and over, picking the same type of partner, one she can’t build a marriage with. To get out of that loop, she needs to change her usual reactions and work on herself. Until the lesson is learned, nothing will work: what hasn’t been lived through has to be repeated.

And when a man asked how a woman felt about him, the Wheel showed that she was drifting with the current, stuck in a Groundhog Day: everything repeats, it’s always the same, the same experience with different men. She acts as if nothing depends on her. Or it does, but only on her mood: wherever the wind blows, that’s where she goes.

Something to hold on to

Finding your own inner axis — a point of support that stays steady while everything around you spins and changes fast — that’s the task of this card.

The shadow side is a losing streak. Feeling like a victim of circumstances you can’t beat. Getting stuck, Groundhog Day. Making the same old mistakes over and over.

Accept it and use it

Don’t try to control what isn’t up to you. Accept what’s happening as a given and be ready to use the new opportunities the Wheel of Fortune brings.

• The Wheel of Fortune — “I accept change.”
• Justice — “I’m responsible for my choice.”