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VI THE NOHNS’ WHEEL

Questions

The thing we call “fortune” is the manifest expression of the process of transformation that we experience in our lifetime. These show us the structures concealed within the deeds, which are both cause and effect to the same degree. Therefore, we are not prisoners of the Norns’ Wheel, but wanderers upon a path that leads us through the effects of our own actions. Although this means that we do not have the power to alter our destiny, we can still change our view of things. The vital question of destiny is not what we are able to change in the current situation, but what is the meaning of our actions: the goal towards which our development is heading.

Background (The Norns of Destiny)

This spread is a combination of beginning and end, of the Big Bang (IV) and the Hammer of Destruction (V). It links the polarities of creation and destruction to the steady movement of the Norns’ Wheel that, because it spins eternally, is therefore between the two. The question that moves you is the point of intersection through which you focus the journey to yourself (between birth and death). You must accept that everything you experience is in turn never the actual cause but only a ripple triggered by pre-existing causes that can themselves be traced back to a basic pattern increasingly distant in time; effects following causes that can be found in your spiritual development. Everything that you experience is never just the cause but also the effect of a genealogical pattern pressing tirelessly further into the future. As the subject of your question (and the focal point of your increasing consciousness) it swings both back into the past and forward into the future. On the allegorical level the three Norns – who turn the wheel of Fortune, and therefore keep the cosmic cycles in motion – symbolize the inner laws that take effect in the actions of people.

Interpretation

1 The material as the basis

The issue in question.

2 The impact as resistance from outside

The shadow you encounter outside yourself.

3 The flood as a consequence of this resistance

The physical plane, upon which the shadow manifests itself.

4 Chaos as the primal beginning

The first opportunity dawning on you in the fog of numinous fears (the aim).

5 The Quark Era as creative quality

The higher (spiritual) meaning of your action.

6 The cooling down of the Earth as inner frustration

Emotional resistance.

7 The Greenhouse Effect as emotional overheating

The inner (exaggerated) reaction to external resistance.

8 The Hadron Era as physical assertion

The dynamic quality of your actions.

9 The Radiation Era as physical condensation

The compression of your aim (hopes and fears) in time and space.

10 The human being as the outer goal of our development

The goal towards which your development leads.