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Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes, 67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer. - scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault: slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion list plus a privacy guard. - tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other pages get a Related Knowledge block. - Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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# Fortuna
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**Domain**: Fortune, chance, luck, fate, the turning of circumstance
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**Symbol**: Wheel, cornucopia, ship’s rudder, sphere, blindfold
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**Greek Equivalent**: Tyche
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## Overview
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Fortuna is the Roman goddess of fortune and chance — the power that raises the low and casts down the high without regard for merit. She is most often shown with three attributes that together tell her whole story: a cornucopia, for the abundance she can bestow; a rudder, for her steering of human affairs; and a wheel, which she turns, lifting some to the top only to bring them under in the same revolution. Often she is blindfolded or balanced on a rolling sphere, signs that her gifts fall blindly and never rest.
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Rome worshipped her under many faces — Fortuna Primigenia (the Firstborn), Fortuna Redux (who brings one safely home), Fortuna Virilis, Fortuna Muliebris — and her great oracular temple at Praeneste drew supplicants seeking to read what she intended. Yet no cult could bind her; her essence is that she cannot be counted on. To pray to Fortuna is to acknowledge how little of a life is chosen.
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Her Greek counterpart is Tyche, the tutelary goddess of a city’s luck, though Fortuna grew far larger in the Roman imagination — a philosophical figure invoked whenever fate seemed arbitrary. Later writers would picture the whole medieval idea of Fortune’s wheel as her doing.
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## The Wheel
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The image most bound to her is the wheel, and it is no accident that the same wheel sits at the center of the tarot. Fortuna turns it eternally: what rises must come round again to fall, and what lies at the bottom may yet be carried up. She teaches neither hope nor despair alone, but the truth that both are temporary.
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## Related
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- [Wheel of Fortune](/knowledge/tarot/major-arcana/wheel-of-fortune) — The Major Arcana card of cycles, fate, and reversal of fortune
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- [Mythology](/knowledge/mythology)
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- [Roman Mythology Index](/knowledge/mythology/roman-mythology)
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