"Fortune presents gifts not according to the bookFortune presents gifts not according to the book
When you expect whistles it's flutes
When you expect flutes it's whistles
What various paths are followed in distributing honours and possesions
She gives awards to some and penitent's cloaks to others
When you expect whistles it's flutes
When you expect flutes it's whistles
Sometimes she robs the chief goatherd of his cottage and and goatpen
And to whomever she fancies the lamest goat has born two kids
When you expect whistles it's flutes
When you expect flutes it's whistles
Because in a village a poor lad has stolen one egg
He swings in the sun and another gets away with a thousand crimes
When you expect whistles it's flutes
When you expect flutes it's whistles" Dead Can Dance
To everything there is a season and the wheel goes round and round. You can be on top one day and the bottom the next. The only thing assured is change. When the Wheel of Fortune comes up in a reading it can signal an opportunity for perspective. It can also represent the twists and turns of fate -- up becomes down and down becomes up. It may be you find yourself in the midst of rapid cycling, like Dorothy caught by the cyclone and taken to the land of Oz. It can reflect a time of surprises, happy or not. Sometimes we are so sure of how things will go and something we never considered, didn't even seem in the realm of possibility, presents itself.
In the Jane Austen Tarot, the Wheel of Fortune is depicted by the dance scene in Emma. Emma is dancing with Frank Churchill; George Knightley is dancing with Harriet Smith. No one ends up with his or her dance partner. Events large and small turn everything around. Circumstances allow Frank Churchill to finally declare his secret engagement to Jane Fairfax. Harriet Smith mistakes Knightley's kindness for love and this spurs Emma to realize she loves George Knightley and always has. George Knightley has loved Emma for years but never believed she felt more than a brotherly affection for him. Round and round they dance and live and by the end of the book, things have settled into surprising but wonderful conclusions.
Life is a dance and it's important to remember that dance we must, in some way, and so we best enjoy it. A generally positive card in a reading, it can offer prospects and prosperity seemingly out of the blue. It's best to remember though that no cycle lasts forever. We can never know whether our dancing will be rewarded or punished and so we can only keep dancing as best we can.
What Would Jane Do?
"Foibles and Frailties are what separate us from the Divine. No human being is exempt from that separation. However, we are all endowed with free will -- men and women alike -- and our actions determine how well we fare under the capricious tides of fortune, as well as how closely we achieve any degree of divinity." p. 32
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