Tarot Card of the Week

 

10 - The Wheel of Fortune - Jupiter

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This card was created from a 1990s slide of a Ferris wheel, which was taken when my obsession with photography first began.I loved the Ferris wheel image, but once it landed on the card, I couldn’t help myself.  I intuitively began twirling the image around until it resembled a giant energy ball.  The figures shown pushing, spinning, and dancing on the wheel were captured with an old 1970s SX-70 Polaroid camera.  This camera used a special type of Polaroid film that allowed me to warp and etch the image’s surface.  Decades later, in the early morning of 2023, I captured the star-filled sky in my backyard while cooking breakfast for my son.

 

I love The Wheel of Fortune.  This card speaks of luck, fortune, fate, destiny, and the cyclical nature of time.  It elicits images of old pioneer towns full of cowboys, flowing whiskey, gambling, and campfires.  Places where stories magically shift into tall tales while flames dance under a starry sky.  There are whispers in this card of other times.  Times when people walked the Earth, studied the sky, and made offerings to the Gods to win their good graces.  It recalls the seers who understood nature’s vast intelligence and brought that wisdom to their leaders.

 

The Wheel of Fortune highlights our patterns, opportunities, destiny, karma, and core beliefs.  And if you’re paying attention, this card shows our resistance or acceptance to our journey and thus to ourselves.  We repeat the same patterns over and over until we realize that the game is actually rigged in our favor. 

 

If your truth is based on the outer world, you will certainly be taken on a wild ride.  But when your truth comes from within, your life expands, old patterns fall away, and you begin to dance with existence rather than fighting it.  After all, you are not merely the ups and the downs of your Earthly experience - you are a Soul experiencing itself in human form.  

 

When you draw The Wheel of Fortune, change is already upon you.  Perhaps you have finally kicked a troubling old pattern to the curb, and everything is suddenly making sense.  This can feel like luck, but remember that it was you who held the vision and carried it through.