Wheel of Fortune tarot card meaning
Major Arcana · Fire · Jupiter · Yes or no: yes
Wheel of Fortune upright
Keywords: change, cycles, luck, turning point, destiny
This card points to the turning of a cycle and a shift in fortune. It asks you to accept that what goes down comes up again, and to stay open as circumstances move. A lucky turn is often simply a door you noticed in time.
Wheel of Fortune reversed
Keywords: resistance to change, bad luck, breaking a cycle
Reversed, the Wheel suggests pushing against a change that is already underway, or a pattern repeating because nothing has been learned. It asks you to find the one thing you can influence and to let the rest turn.
Wheel of Fortune in love
Upright: A chance meeting or an unexpected shift brings the relationship to a new stage.
Reversed: The same argument keeps coming around, and breaking the pattern takes a different choice.
Wheel of Fortune for career and work
Upright: Circumstances are shifting in your favor, so be ready to say yes to an opening.
Reversed: A setback outside your control is frustrating, and your response to it is the part you own.
Symbols
- the wheel with its letters: the cycle of fate and the name of the divine
- the sphinx on top: the riddle of balance at the center of change
- the snake descending: the force of life moving downward
- the jackal-headed figure rising: what has fallen rising again
- the four winged creatures in the corners: the fixed signs holding the wheel in place
A question to sit with: What is turning in your life that you could choose to move with?