Wheeeeeel offffff Fortuuuuunee!
Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 21 Jun 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.
| napaea |
21 Jun 2002 |
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Okay guys, the last 2 days I have pulled out the Wheel like 8 times! I know it can mean blessings, change, movement or moving, but since I've gotten it so much in two days (it even comes up when I'm reading for someone else!) what is going on? Any ideas?
lotsaluv
nap
:THP
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| napaea |
21 Jun 2002 |
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ps, i just found another thread about the W. of Fo. so that helped! But any other comments are very encouraged!
napaea
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| Jenny-Li |
21 Jun 2002 |
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Sometimes I have read the Wheel of Fortune as a kind of "now's the time for the inevitable, that which must be"-card. I guess you could say that if some things in life are based on free will and our own choices and others are not, then the Wheel signifies that stuff is on the way that would end up in the latter category, the things that are out of our control, but are there for us to follow our karmic thread in one way or another.
So regardless of the event being a big one or a not so big one (usually the specifics will be in the surrounding cards), it has a deeper meaning in our lives, it's there to show us/teach us something.
Some late night thoughts...!
Light and love,
Jenny :)
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| aeonx |
22 Jun 2002 |
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Greetings napaea.
Is there a particular area in your life that needs change? Maybe you should reflect on your current life-situation and see if there's some paths you could take, but haven't seen yet. Maybe the WF is trying to show you this. Are there any special cards that pop up in the same readings?
~aeonx~
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| renard |
26 Jun 2002 |
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Ola!
Just wanted to add that the Wheel -- which I've been getting a lot recently, too -- always makes me think of the Carmina Burana, by Carl Orff, where the whole choir's just *wailing* at the end about the fickleness of Fortune that changes like the moon. Fortune is personified in the medieval poems that Orff uses as lyrics as a kind of unofficial goddess -- very common in the Middle Ages.
The music's thrilling -- it's sampled all the time in movie scores -- and full of the seriously mixed emotions you might expect people to have about change at a time of war, plague and -- well, the rest of it.
I seem to remember from somewhere that Fortuna was worshiped and sacrificed to in ancient Rome -- which even her worshipers admitted made no sense, since the turning wheel could not be stopped, nor Fortuna wooed (picture Lady Luck, but with a lot more heft).
It's interesting how attitudes change with a different sense of basic security -- we're pretty safe, so we tend to see change as a good thing. Lots of people haven't (and don't).
anyway, that's my pedantic contribution! The Orff is fabulous -- if you don't know it, you might want to check it out.
Best, renard
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| MeeWah |
28 Jun 2002 |
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Renard: That musical analogy is perfect! Carmina Burana is one of the most stirring & inspirational pieces I know of.
The Wheel of Fortune is also known as The Wheel of Changes; Life; Karma. It appears when one cycle of life ends & another begins. It deals with cycles of evolution or involution. It presents opportunities; offers experiences to *balance* the life. (Ferris wheels, merry-go-rounds & roulette wheels are suggestive of that energy.) The forward motion can be seen as a call to meet one's "destiny" (which can be determined by the choices made); retrograde, it can refer to setbacks. The latter is not always indicative of retardation of progress as sometimes a step back is necessary before one can move forward. The idea is to try "to go with the flow" whilst at the same time maintaining a sense of self in relation to what is presented. Thus, there are choices inherent within the changes offered.
Time is an aspect of The Wheel:
" To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." ~Ecclesiastes 3:1
The letters on the wheel spelled clockwise:
TAROT - "road of Life".
ROTA - involution, motivation.
Spelled counterclockwise:
ORAT - Greek for "to speak"; or speaking your truth.
TORA - knowledge; law
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| napaea |
30 Jun 2002 |
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thanks for the input & info about Carmina Burana!
Also, thanks MeeWah for the insight on the words on the wheel.
My deck doesn't have letters, so I wouldn't have picked up on that! Very cool! I had a professional reading done yesterday, and sure enough, the card for ME was the wheel! I guess I should do a little meditation on it. I know my life is headed for some active changing!!
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