Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune can carry you very high, and it can let you fall very low. When all is going well you feel like the luckiest person alive, and when fate strikes it seems the world is ending. Now the wheel is asking you to become entirely indifferent to winning or losing.

If you can manage that acceptance, you will be able to make the lessons of fate your own. Fate can be an unfair and merciless goddess, but also a fair and generous lady. Keep your reactions in hand and understand that the wheel is presenting you with lessons, insight and spiritual growth.

If you envy someone sitting at the top of the wheel, know that everything can change with one simple turn, and that you may be the one at that dizzying height.

Verse
The wheel goes round and sets my fate.
Sometimes unseen, sometimes it comes straight.
Hard lessons are the ones I learn,
and so my greatest fear I turn.

Other meanings
Envy and jealousy are useless feelings. Your turn is still coming. Everything that turns comes around again eventually. What matters is how you handle an outcome. You have to draw the lesson from it. That is part of your soul's journey. Enjoy the ride.

About the Wheel of Fortune
Rota Fortunae is a concept that came from the Babylonians and was developed further by the ancient Greeks. It tells us the wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna, who turns it at random and so shapes the lives of mortals. In the Middle Ages, stories were written about the tragic downfall of powerful people.