What Goes Up, Will Come Down: Meditations on the Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune in any tarot deck is normally chock full of symbolism, all meant to convey that there is a cycle to life — at one moment down, the next up — but the wheel continues to rotate. In the corners of the card are symbols representing the four fixed signs of the zodiac (each representing a season), all with copies of the Torah. Fours abound — the sphinx is the combination of four creatures, the four letters spell either ‘Tarot’, Tora’, or ‘Rota’ (for wheel)depending on how you read it, and the four letters ‘Yod’, ‘Heh’, ‘Vau’…