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In the shadow of the lunar city sits a gypsy fortune-teller with an empty, detached gaze fixed on the future. She turns the wheel of fate for the troubled townsman who has come to learn his lot. In her impassive face lies the indifference of fate itself: the wheel will turn regardless of wishes. Pale moonlight on the figures, gothic shadows all around. This is an image of fortune as a blind force — neither evil nor kind, simply turning — and of the person who anxiously waits to see where it will lead him.
This deck's Wheel of Fortune is the card of fate and chance. The fortune-teller with an empty stare turns the wheel for a troubled townsman: fortune turns on its own, indifferent to wishes, and the person can only wait to see where it leads. This is a turn, fate, an unplanned event.
Upright — luck, chance, unplanned events, fate. Before you is a moment when much is decided not by your will but by the turn of the wheel: a sudden change, a chance or a bend you did not choose.
Archetypally this is the Waite Wheel — the cycle of rise and fall, the law of change. What is at the top will find itself at the bottom, and vice versa; nothing stands still. Fortune neither punishes nor rewards — she turns.
Accept that not everything is in your hands — this deck's wheel turns on its own, and some events will come as a turn of fate rather than as your choice. Do not waste force on trying to stop the turning: better choose how to meet the change. If the wheel is going up — make use of the moment of luck; if down — remember that this too will pass, up and down trade places. Be flexible and ready for a turn. Beside The Chariot move, and the turn will catch you; beside The Fool trust chance and step forward.
Ahead — a turn of fate: an unplanned event, a sudden change, a chance or a bend that will come on its own, outside your reckoning. The wheel will shift — possibly upward, toward luck and a new cycle. This is a time when fate plays a larger role than will; much will be decided not by you. Meet the change with flexibility: whatever falls out, the wheel will keep turning, and what is below will become above.
The reversed Wheel of Fortune here — unfortunate events, unexpected outcomes. The wheel has turned the wrong way: fate's bend has gone badly, luck has looked away, chance has played against you. This is a streak of misfortune, the derailing of plans by external forces, an outcome you neither expected nor wanted. The fortune-teller with her empty stare is indifferent to your misfortune as well — fate does not explain itself. Sometimes this is resistance to an unavoidable change: you cling to the waning top of the wheel, making the fall more painful. The reversed card's counsel: do not make war on blind fortune, but ride out the low point with dignity, remembering that the turning has not stopped; gather strength for the moment when the wheel rises again, and do not cling to what is already falling.
The same card reads differently depending on the spread and the question — compare real spreads:
«What will this turn mean for me?»
The Wheel — a turn of fate is coming, a change outside your reckoning; be ready for a bend. Your role The Chariot — the Chariot: keep moving, hold your course, and fortune will catch the one already on the road. Outcome The Sun — a solar outcome, luck and joy, if the turn is met with flexibility. Do not try to stop the wheel — ride its movement.
«Is this chance a gift of fate or a trap?»
«How do I get through this difficult stretch?»
In Waite the Wheel features a sphinx with a sword at the top, Typhon and Anubis on the sides, four winged creatures with books in the corners, the letters TARO/YHVH: a cosmic mechanism of fate under wise governance. This deck brings the image down to earth: a gypsy fortune-teller who turns the wheel for an anxious client. The archetype of the turn of fate, chance, and cycle is shared, but Waite makes it a metaphysical law, this deck — a human scene of divination with empty, indifferent fate.
Jupiter is the Wheel's planet: expansion, luck, fortune, cycles of growth and the broad sweep of things. The force that brings chance and a turn of fate, widens horizons, and sets the great wheel of the world in motion.
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