At the end of last year Benebell Wen posted about her Tarot Year Card and that got me inspired to find out my own Tarot Year Card. In the book Archetypal Tarot by Mary K. Greer the formula for discovering your Tarot Year Card is to add your birth day, birth month and current year together, then to add the numbers from that sum together until you end up with the highest number under 23, with the number 22 representing The Fool.
Hopefully this example given should help to clarify this.
month of birth 8
day of birth + 26
current year + 2014
total 2048
The total number is then added together to give your year card, 2 + 0 + 4 + 8 = 14 (Temperance)
After completing this with my own details I found that 2022 for me is a Wheel of Fortune year. After reading about what this may mean for the coming year in Archetypal Tarot I was a bit apprehensive. Like a lot of people, I don't like change, but as a Wheel of Fortune year, I'm about to experience it whether I'm ready for it or not.
To find out more insight I started to pull the Wheel of Fortune card from a few different decks I own to see what else their meanings may offer. The Wheel cards from DruidCraft Tarot and Wildwood Tarot both spoke of the changing of seasons, of the passing of time and the natural cycles in nature. The Wildwood card with its eight spoked wheel for the turning of the seasons, the presence of both the sun and moon and the three herons as the three fates was beautiful. However, I was particularly draw to the DruidCraft card with its depiction of Arianrhod on the liminal place of the beach, between land and sea, with the cave representing both womb and tomb behind her.
Other cards I looked at speak more to the Wheel of Fortune as being related to luck and fortune, with the Halloween Tarot depicting a man on a roulette wheel being spun by an elephant who is being spooked by a mouse. The Vacchetta Tarot, on the other hand, depicts the classic "wheel" and features the goddess Fortuna herself at the top where she is able to see all, and at the bottom a misfortunate woman is being crushed by life's circumstances. Hopefully that woman does not turn out to be me.
Being tarot key 10, The Wheel of Fortune is numerologically related to the Aces and 10's of the minor arcana, meaning this will be a year of beginnings and completions. Basically from all these cards there is the sense that there is no fighting change and what is to come. So as a wise person once said "No good sittin' worryin' abou' it," ... "What's comin' will come, an' we'll meet it when it does."- J. K. Rowling
