Major Arcana
Wheel of Fortune
Upright
- ·cycles
- ·change
- ·fortune
- ·destiny
Reversed
- ·bad luck
- ·resistance
- ·broken cycles
- ·setback
Upright
The seasons turn the shop without asking you, the herbs that were green dry to gold on the rack, and a thing is moving on its own. The Wheel turns and your hand isn't the one turning it. Sometimes that is luck arriving, sometimes the long-stuck cycle finally rolling forward. Either way the card reminds you that you are not the only force in the room. Move with the turning. Don't grip the spokes.
Reversed
The wheel still turns but you are riding the underside of it, the bad timing, the cycle that won't quite break. There is grace in it even so, it does not say the wheel stays stuck, only that you're inside the part that feels that way. Loosen your hands. The turning doesn't ask permission.
In the imagery
A spinning spice grinder sits at the center of the table, its wheel mid-turn, ground herb falling steady into the bowl below. Around the room the seasons are pinned to the shelves, a sprig of spring green, a summer bloom, an autumn seed-head, a bundle of winter root, each at its own corner. The grinder turns, the corners hold, and the candle keeps its small steady light through all of it.
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