The Empress and Wheel of Fortune

Growth drawn with cycles, which the tradition treats as agreement rather than tension. The Empress already works in seasons and the Wheel is the season changing. The pair is read as the reminder that fertility includes the fallow part.

Associated with a relationship in a quieter phase, and with the difference between a season and a decline.

Read for a productive period turning. The pair is unusually calm about it and does not read the turn as loss.

A quiet stretch is not a failure of the thing. Something growing is not producing at every point in the year.