HOW TO USE THIS WHEEL
According to Felix Fontaine, the Golden Wheel Fortune Teller was designed to answer one of the eight following questions:
- Whether you shall obtain the favor of the person you desire?
- If the querent shall meet with the preferment he wisheth for?
- Whether a sick person shall recover?
- If the said sickness will be long or short?
- Shall your expectation or wish succeed?
- Is it good for you to marry, or otherwise?
- Whether the friendship of a certain person will prove advantageous or not?
- Whether a person will be rich or poor? Etc., etc.
From what I’ve seen, this wheel doesn’t address questions three or four above at all. The others it will potentially answer, but question eight is often tied-in to the answers to question six.
To use this wheel, Fontaine says the inquirer is supposed to lay the wheel face down, then prick the back of the wheel at random with a needle. The inquirer then picks up the wheel and turns it over to see which number their needle or pin has just lanced. I see eventual problems with this approach, as too many pin-pricks in the chart will eventually weaken it, and will make your pin-prick hard to see, from among many. But if you want to be traditional in using this chart, that is the way to go about it. To eliminate the possibility of pinning one of the florid illustrations and not a number on the Golden Wheel, you might want to cut out just the wheel itself. The PDF for the chart appears below, so you can download it and print out as many as you want:
But I like my standard approaches with Wheels of Fortune, which is either placing it on a lazy-susan, giving it a spin, then pointing at random. Or, just closing your eyes and pointing at random with a retractible-pen, pencil or some other (non-needle) pointer.
Below is the list of fortunes for each number on the wheel. I have substantially left the wording as it originally appeared, adding a few words or changing punctuation only to clarify the meaning.
Love this – such a beautiful wheel! I would interpret ” ‘should I go ahead with my plans?’ or ‘do I have any enemies?’, only to choose the answer ‘you will have a handsome, young, and wealthy man for your partner.’ ” by shifting my focus a little and looking at what a handsome, young and wealthy man symbolises. He sounds wholesome right? So it looks good, but handsome young men are often not mature enough to handle their wealth. So it’s a cautionary path to success, go ahead by all means, there’s a good chance of success, but beware the pitfalls caused by naivety and overconfidence. I used to have real problems finding these sorts of canned answer oracles useful, but since I started working with the European cartomancy decks I just seem to be able to refocus the answer to just about any question by breaking it down that way. Lots of fun!
Good point! I think you’re right about having to shift one’s focus and considering what a pre-set image in a divination tool symbolizes for oneself personally. This is particularly important if you’re dealing with an old divination tool from an earlier century, where they had a slightly-different outlook on life. It doesn’t mean the divination tool in question has nothing of value to say to us, but we may need to adapt or reinterpret the answer.