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The Wheel of Fortune Year

Fire

The Wheel year turns whether or not you're ready. Change arrives that you didn't schedule: the chance out of nowhere, the door that opens the week you'd given up knocking, timing you could never have engineered. Some of it lifts you and some of it drops you, and the year's real practice is trusting motion you can't fully control. Your life doesn't have to run in a straight line to be going somewhere. Learning to move with the turn instead of bracing against it is where the year gets lighter.

What to do with a Wheel of Fortune yearTrack your own seasons this year without judging the low ones, and notice the small turns, not just the dramatic ones. Sort what's yours to steer from what isn't, and put your energy into the first.

Your twelve months

Each month steps one place forward through the cycle. The same twelve, in the same order, for any Wheel of Fortune year.

January
Justice February
The Hanged One March
Death April
Temperance May
The Devil June
The Tower July
The Star August
The Moon September
The Sun October
Judgement November
The World December
The Fool

Element weather

How the twelve months balance across the elements.

4Fire months3Water months3Air months2Earth months

The rest of the cycle

The nine Majors a Wheel of Fortune year doesn’t touch.

The Magician The High Priestess The Empress The Emperor The Hierophant The Lovers The Chariot Strength The Hermit

The full year-ahead reading

The whole Wheel of Fortune year, woven

This page is the theme. The full reading walks all twelve months in the Almanac’s voice, reads the element weather, brings in how your Bearing meets the year, and closes with the skills and reflection questions a Wheel of Fortune year calls for.

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