Hymn to Fortune, the Turning Crown
O Wheel concealed within the womb of stars, Thou sapphire engine of the Infinite, Whose axle pierces the unmoving heart Of Silence before creationโ
Turn now.
By the thunder-breath of Jupiter, By the amethyst sceptre of expansion, By the twelvefold palace of the zodiac And the hidden thirteenth gate between worlds, Turn the golden circumference of becoming.
Upon Thy rim ascend the crowned and fallen, The serpent of involution coils downward, The jackal-headed guardian climbs through shadow, And the sphinx, enthroned above all change, Keeps the question no mortal tongue may answer.
O Fortune, Thou art not chance, But the secret arithmetic of consequence; Not chaos, But the spiral scripture of recurrence; Not fate imposed from without, But the ripened seed of causes Returning through the gardens of time.
Thy blessing is motion.
Where the soul has hardened into stone, Thou sendest the earthquake of awakening. Where sorrow has named itself eternal, Thou openest an unseen door. Where the road has vanished beneath night, Thou causest a new constellation to rise Within the travelerโs blood.
Turn the wheel of loss into wisdom. Turn the wheel of waiting into ripeness. Turn the wheel of exile into pilgrimage. Turn the wheel of fear into sacred velocity. Turn the wheel of poverty into fertile vision. Turn the wheel of ending into the black gate Through which the scarlet phoenix ascends.
O Lord of the Vault of Heaven, Great Benefic robed in indigo fire, Pour forth the wine of possibility. Enlarge the vessel of the spirit. Break the narrow circles of former limitation. Lead the seeker beyond the walls Built by old names, old wounds, and old defeats.
May fortunate conjunctions gather unseen. May the lost thread return to the hand. May the necessary meeting occur. May the sealed season open. May the right wind enter the sail At the hour appointed by the stars.
Yet grant also the wisdom of the sphinx: To remain centered while kingdoms revolve, To neither cling to the summit Nor curse the descent, To know that every height is temporary, Every abyss contains a hidden stair, And the still point within the turning Is the throne of the awakened soul.
Fortune, mighty glyph of Kaph, Palm of the cosmic hand, Receive my life as clay upon Thy axis. Shape without shattering. Change without scattering. Expand without excess. Reveal the pattern beneath the confusion.
Let synchronicity become my herald. Let courage become my offering. Let gratitude become my talisman. Let adaptability become my sacred art.
I welcome the turning.
I bless what rises. I release what falls. I honor what returns. I prepare for what has never yet appeared.
For no wheel turns forever in one direction, No night possesses the heavens, No chain survives the final revolution Of the liberated will.
O Fortune, Roll Thy thunder through my destiny. Awaken the sleeping gates. Bring movement to the stagnant waters. Bring increase to worthy labors. Bring companions to the solitary road. Bring revelation to the bewildered heart. Bring opportunity clothed in strange garments, That I may recognize the blessing Before it passes into another life.
And when Thy wheel carries me upward, May I rise without arrogance. When Thy wheel lowers me into shadow, May I descend without despair. For I am neither summit nor abyss, Neither triumph nor ruinโ
I am the witness at the center, The secret star within the mechanism, The silent flame no turning can extinguish.
So turn, O Wheel of Jupiter. Turn through flesh, dream, season, and aeon. Turn until every accident reveals its oracle, Every delay reveals its initiation, Every ending reveals its concealed beginning.
Turn until destiny remembers my name.
Turn until the heavens open.
Turn until blessing, Ancient and immeasurable, Descends through the ten thousand gates And crowns the living moment With gold.

















