The Wheel of Fortune
“The Wheel of Fortune” marks a turning point in the journey, but rather than embracing the usual themes of luck and forward motion, I felt drawn to its reversed meaning. Resistance to change. Stagnation. The quiet, stubborn refusal to shift even when life is asking you to. I wanted to explore how this energy seeps into relationships, shaping them not through active conflict but through the absence of movement.
In tarot, the Wheel reminds us that life is always in motion and that we move with it whether we choose to or not. But when the card appears reversed, it reflects the moments when we dig our heels in, when fear or pride or comfort keeps us from evolving. I began thinking about how this resistance affects the person beside you, how refusing to grow can create a heaviness in a relationship, even when love itself is present.
Writing “The Wheel of Fortune”, I was careful to tread the line between honouring authenticity and recognising the necessity of adaptability. We should never mould ourselves into something unrecognisable just to please someone else. But relationships are living things, and living things require change. Shared growth. Mutual flexibility. A willingness to soften when needed and expand when called to. When one person refuses to move at all, the other is left carrying the weight of the relationship alone, and the imbalance slowly becomes unbearable.
This song became an exploration of that tension. The sadness of watching something meaningful become strained simply because one person cannot or will not shift. The frustration of knowing that love is still there, but trapped beneath layers of resistance. The truth that refusing to grow does not only limit you, it hurts the person who is trying to walk alongside you.
In the reversed Wheel, I found a reflection of the moments where we cling too tightly to who we were, even as life asks us to become something more. This track became my way of acknowledging how essential it is to allow ourselves movement, not for the sake of another, but for the sake of staying connected, present and alive within something we care about.
At its heart, “The Wheel of Fortune” is a reminder that growth does not mean losing yourself. It means staying open enough to meet the turning of the wheel so that love can breathe rather than break.
