The Bill Cipher Zodiac

Bill Cipher Wheel
Type	Symbol
First appearance
First episode	Dreamscaperers
Last episode	Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back the Falls
Appearances	3
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The Bill Cipher Wheel is a symbol associated with Bill Cipher and the symbols surrounding him. In Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back the Falls, it is revealed that this wheel is a prophecy used to defeat Bill Cipher.

History

The wheel is quickly flashed at the end of the theme song. When it is shown there is a fast whisper that reveals the code needed to translate the cryptogram seen at the end of the episode.

The wheel is also seen in Journal 2 when Gideon is trying to find out how to summon Bill Cipher. The page in the Journal featuring the wheel looks different than the page featured in the theme song. Some content on the page is the same, and some is different. The page in the journal contains information regarding Bill Cipher, as well as the wheel. The author states that he had been dreaming of Bill and the symbol for weeks, and he questions the significance of the symbol.

As the wheel appears to represent Bill, he seems to have the ability to summon it around him.

In The Last Mabelcorn, a variant of the wheel, possibly representing every generation that the primary version ever represented, is shown.

In Weirdmageddon 3:Take Back the Falls, Ford reveals that he found these symbols passed down from the natives of Gravity Falls. When each person that correlates with a symbol stands in a drawn version of this wheel and they hold hands, it has enough power to defeat Bill Cipher

Appearance

The image flashed at the end of the theme song appears to be drawn on a page from one of the journals. The paper has various symbols, writing, and other content written on it including a phrase which can be deciphered with Caesar cipher and reads "STAN IS NOT WHAT HE SEEMS."

When Bill summons the wheel it is a bright, glowing blue. A blue light then flickers around the wheel, briefly highlighting each symbol.

Around the circle are ten small images that have been seen throughout the series. These images, their placements, and the people or objects they likely represent include:

• A pair of glasses: in the series this symbol is distinguished by three exclamation points. Old Man McGucket believes that the glasses represent himself, though this is then implied to be incorrect. Old Man McGucket is the one to stand in the symbol in the finale, though it's stated that it has no specific carrier (person).
• A question mark: Soos Ramirez - Soos's T-shirt
• An open bag of ice: Wendy - Because she is cool. It is stated that there is no specific carrier, just someone who is cool
• A crescent shaped symbol: Stan Pines - Stan's fez
• A pine tree: Dipper Pines - Dipper's hat
• A crossed, five-pointed star with an eyeball in the center: Gideon Gleeful - the Tent of Telepathy symbol seen on the top of the tent and the back of Gideon's cape
• A hand with six fingers: Ford Pines- the hand on all of the journals
• A llama: there is a llama on one of Mabel's sweaters. In the newest trailer for Weirdmageddon Part 3: Take back the Falls, Pacifica Northwest is seen wearing this sweater. It is never stated there is no specific carrier but Pacifica stoof on it because of the timing she was wearing a llama sweater.
• A shooting star: Mabel Pines - one of Mabel's sweaters Also the symbol on Mabel's prison bubble.
• A heart with a stitch in the middle: Robbie Valentino - seen on his sweatshirt

When seen in "The Stanchurian Candidate," there are several differences in Gideon Gleeful's hand drawn version of the wheel on the wall of his jail cell hidden behind a poster.

Sightings

• Intro: "Gravity Falls Main Title Theme"

Season 1

• 119. "Dreamscaperers"

Season 2

• 214. "The Stanchurian Candidate"
• 220-221. "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls"

Games

• Rumble's Revenge
• Fright Night

Trivia

• In Journal 2, on the page with the cipher, the journal has three exclamation points and an arrow pointing to the glasses symbols.
• The crescent symbol representing Stan's hat was originally different but it changed when the symbol on Stan's fez changed in Bottomless Pit. However, the symbol on the wheel as seen in the theme song remains the same.
• The wheel is also called "Bill's Wheel" and "Cipher Wheel" for short.
• Soos and Dipper's symbols, as well as the stitched heart symbol that is often assumed to be Robbie's, have all been seen elsewhere. As they are all on articles of clothing, there are other articles of clothing with the same symbols on them.
• Several of the symbols on the wheel can be seen on the infinity sided die.
• In the episodes Dreamscaperers, Sock Opera, The Last Mabelcorn, and Weirdmageddon Part 1 Bill calls Dipper, Mabel, Soos, and Ford by their corresponding symbols on the wheel (pine tree, shooting star, question mark, and six-fingers respectively).
• In the apocalypse version of the theme song, the image of Bill is ripped out of the page. This is likely referencing that Bill is now in the real world.
• On the flag to take back Gravity Falls, various symbols from the wheel are there, including the six-fingered hand, the shooting star, the pine tree, and the question mark.
• The order is different in the Cipher Wheel that Gideon drew in Stanchurian Candidate.
• In this image from The Guide to Mystery, every symbol except the question mark can be seen. (the stitched heart and llama are hard to see, but they're at the bottom of the page. Only the top half of the heart is visible.)
• The wheel was to be used in the finale of the show to defeat Bill.

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