Ruota della fortuna

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Il significato principale di Ruota della fortuna è La forza irresistibile del destino. Al dritto, solitamente indica Un punto di svolta, fortuna, karma, forze fuori dal tuo controllo. Simboleggia l; rovesciata, potrebbe suggerire Sfortuna, battute d’arresto dovute alla resistenza al cambiamento, un ciclo inte.

Immagini della carta

Una grande ruota su cui sono incisi simboli alchemici fluttua nel cielo azzurro. Attorno ad esso, i quattro esseri viventi (uomo, aquila, leone e toro) siedono leggendo libri. Una sfinge poggia in cima alla ruota, Anubi si erge alla sua base e un serpente discende lungo il suo lato.

Significato al dritto

Un punto di svolta, fortuna, karma, forze fuori dal tuo controllo. Simboleggia l'ascesa e la caduta della fortuna, un promemoria per muoversi con il cambiamento e cogliere l'attimo.

Significato invertito

Sfortuna, battute d’arresto dovute alla resistenza al cambiamento, un ciclo interrotto. Può indicare un punto basso temporaneo o un tentativo di forzare il controllo su ciò che è incontrollabile.

Amore, carriera, denaro e crescita

Amore

Innamorato, Ruota della fortuna indica La forza irresistibile del destino. Rileggilo confrontandolo con il modo in cui si comporta effettivamente la relazione e con ciò che scegliete entrambi.

Carriera

In materia di carriera, Ruota della fortuna indica La forza irresistibile del destino. Inizia individuando quali risorse controlli e quale sarà la tua prossima mossa.

Soldi

In materia di soldi, Ruota della fortuna indica La forza irresistibile del destino. Non considerare una lettura simbolica come una conclusione di investimento: segui i fatti, il budget e la tua tolleranza al rischio.

Crescita personale

Per la crescita personale, Ruota della fortuna indica La forza irresistibile del destino. Annota la domanda che solleva, quindi trasformala in un'azione che puoi effettivamente verificare.

Sì o no

Diritto

Sì

Rovesciata

No

Questa è la nostra lettura veloce, basata sulla direzione in cui tende il significato della carta. Le tradizioni non sono d'accordo sulle singole carte, e un "Forse" deve essere valutato rispetto alla posizione nello spread e alla situazione reale piuttosto che essere preso come una risposta di una sola parola.

Testo originale di Waite (1911)

Simbolismo interiore (originale)

In this symbol I have again followed the reconstruction of Eliphas Lévi, who has furnished several variants. It is legitimate—as I have intimated—to use Egyptian symbolism when this serves our purpose, provided that no theory of origin is implied therein. I have, however, presented Typhon in his serpent form. The symbolism is, of course, not exclusively Egyptian, as the four Living Creatures of Ezekiel occupy the angles of the card, and the wheel itself follows other indications of Lévi in respect of Ezekiel's vision, as illustrative of the particular Tarot Key. With the French occultist, and in the design itself, the symbolic picture stands for the perpetual motion of a fluidic universe and for the flux of human life. The Sphinx is the equilibrium therein. The transliteration of Taro as Rota is inscribed on the wheel, counterchanged with the letters of the Divine Name—to show that Providence is implied through all. But this is the Divine intention within, and the similar intention without is exemplified by the four Living Creatures. Sometimes the sphinx is represented couchant on a pedestal above, which defrauds the symbolism by stultifying the essential idea of stability amidst movement.

Behind the general notion expressed in the symbol there lies the denial of chance and the fatality which is implied therein. It may be added that, from the days of Lévi onward, the occult explanations of this card are—even for occultism itself—of a singularly fatuous kind. It has been said to mean principle, fecundity, virile honor, ruling authority, etc. The findings of common fortune-telling are better than this on their own plane.

Significato originale al dritto

Destiny, fortune, success, elevation, luck, felicity.

Significato originale invertito

Increase, abundance, superfluity.

Citato da A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), illustrato da Pamela Colman Smith. Il testo è di pubblico dominio.

Origini del mito e dei simboli

A medieval image-motif, a vision from Ezekiel, and a nineteenth-century Egyptian-style reconstruction, stacked on one card.

Documented imagery

Attested by surviving objects or texts

Tarot did not invent the wheel of fortune

The Rota Fortunae was one of the most widespread image-motifs in medieval Europe, centuries older than tarot. The idea comes from Book II of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy: Fortuna turns her wheel, and it carries people up and carries them down again. Medieval manuscripts and cathedral rose windows drew it as four figures on a wheel, each with a Latin tag — "I shall reign / I reign / I have reigned / I am without a kingdom." The trump cards appear in fifteenth-century Italy drawing that same motif; they are not starting from scratch.

Fonte Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy II (c. 524); the four tags appear in medieval manuscript images such as the Carmina Burana manuscript (c. 1230)

The Greek goddess behind Fortuna

Roman Fortuna corresponds to Greek Tyche, goddess of chance, shown in classical art with a rudder, a cornucopia, or a wheel. Note what she governs: chance, not destiny. Spinning and cutting the thread of life belongs to the Moirai, a different set of figures. The two were already distinct in antiquity, and this card inherits the first.

Fonte Classical Tyche / Fortuna iconography in statuary and coinage

The living creatures at the corners are Hebrew scripture

The man, eagle, ox and lion at the four corners are not Greek myth. They are the four living creatures of Ezekiel 1:10, restated in Revelation 4:7 and fixed thereafter as the emblems of the four evangelists — which is why all four hold books. A Greek goddess's wheel and a Hebrew prophet's vision on one card is entirely normal for Renaissance imagery. There is no need, and no warrant, to resolve it into a single "original system."

Fonte Ezekiel 1:10, Revelation 4:7; Waite 1911 states the living creatures come from Ezekiel

Esoteric correspondence

A sourced traditional claim, but constructed inside an occult system

Serpent-form Typhon and the sphinx: Lévi's reconstruction

Waite says outright that this card "follows the reconstruction of Eliphas Lévi," and that he has presented Typhon — the monstrous figure of Greek myth — in serpent form, with the sphinx at the top of the wheel as the equilibrium within its motion. Lévi's version also has a rising jackal-headed figure, Hermanubis, a Hellenistic fusion of Hermes and Anubis; that is Lévi's design, and Waite's own text does not name it. The letters T-A-R-O on the wheel can be read round as ROTA, counterchanged with the Hebrew letters of the Divine Name. All of this is nineteenth-century occult construction, not the card's history.

Fonte Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911, Wheel of Fortune; Eliphas Lévi, Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, 1854–56

The Golden Dawn's Jupiter attribution

The Golden Dawn ties each trump to a planet or sign, and the Wheel of Fortune gets Jupiter (Hebrew letter Kaph). Jupiter is the Roman counterpart of Greek Zeus, and carries expansion, good fortune, and a widening of scale. The chain does reach back to the Greek pantheon — as long as you are clear that it is the system doing the connecting, and not a fifteenth-century painter drawing Zeus.

Fonte Golden Dawn Book T planetary attributions for the trumps

Modern reading

Popular only since the twentieth century; unrelated to where the card came from

The wheel of karma and the three Fates: added later

Reading this card as a wheel of karma comes from the late-nineteenth-century Theosophical import of Indian ideas of karma into Western esotericism. Nothing in the Renaissance triumph imagery carries that sense. Mapping three positions on the wheel onto the three Moirai is the same kind of move: a modern teaching analogy, not something the classical imagery does. Both are useful in a reading. Neither is a source.

Fonte Modern popular reading, no historical basis

Scritto da BESTAROT, non citato da fonti storiche. Ogni affermazione è contrassegnata da quanto bene è dimostrata; gli strati interpretativi moderni sono utili per la lettura, ma non costituiscono l’origine storica della carta.

Studia il tema: Mito e origini dei simboli (Accademia capitolo 6)