Vision Board: Wheel of Fortune

The central image of my vision board is of the Wheel of Fortune (Rota Fortunae), which pertains to the role of fate in a person's life. Recently, I stumbled across a blog posting from the blog Tarot in a Teacup that helps explain my fascination with the image. Monica, the blog's author, quotes from Juliet Sharman-Burke's book The New Complete Book of Tarot: "The Wheel of Fortune is a paradoxical image of stability and change. The true self of a man, which is hidden from his conscious mind, very often remains at the still hub of the wheel, like the blind goddess. The hub remains stable, although the external or conscious situations change, as reflected by the moving outer rim. Fate is the circumference of the wheel, and the true self is the centre. The hub enables the rim to turn and thus controls all that comes its way. Each man is responsible for his own destiny, and although circumstances are determined, as are the four points of the great wheel, it is each man who turns his own wheel to whichever point his true self dictates. . . . In reality, we are presented with choices and situations, and what we do with them is on our own account."