The Wheel turns eternally -- destiny, fortune, success, luck, felicity. The Jovian path reminds us that all states are temporary, that the sphinx atop the wheel asks her riddle of every soul who rises and falls upon its rim. What goes up shall come down, and what descends shall rise again. Reversed: Increase, abundance, superfluity -- even in reversal, the Wheel gives, for it never stops turning.

UPRIGHT: Destiny, Fortune, Success, Felicity

REVERSED: Increase, Abundance, Superfluity, Excess

Wheel of Fortune is like the Free Space everyone benefits from in a board game; pure gain and felicity. Everyone passes by fortune at some point. But the wheel keeps turning. The wheel of the world, and as you know, the wheel of your mind, heart, and soul too. Everything is always moving. The Wheel of Fortune brings about destiny and success, but also in the same stroke keeps turning and leaving those things behind in the span of time. Just know that if you are able to turn the wheel {if you are alive and conscious}, you are a most fortunate being indeed.

On the journey, the hero is nearing the midpoint of his journey, where new decisions are to be made with inspiration & urgency and fresh horizons must be sought…

Bottom Line: When you turn the Wheel, recognize the delights of your present moment and then keep it moving.

Tree of Life Path: Chesed to Netzach -- Mercy ⟷ Victory. Bridging the gap between Creation and Formation, between Emotions and Instincts.

A.E. Waite quote: “In this symbol I have again followed the reconstruction of Éliphas Lévi, who has furnished several variants. It is legitimate--as I have intimated--to use Egyptian symbolism when this serves our purpose, provided that no theory of origin is implied therein. I have, however, presented Typhon in his serpent form. The symbolism is, of course, not exclusively Egyptian, as the four Living Creatures of Ezekiel occupy the angles of the card, and the wheel itself follows other indications of Lévi in respect of Ezekiel's vision, as illustrative of the particular Tarot Key. With the French occultist, and in the design itself, the symbolic picture stands for the perpetual motion of a fluidic universe and for the flux of human life. The Sphinx is the equilibrium therein.”

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