The Wheel of Fortune upright
The Wheel of Fortune turns whether you push it or not. The figures clinging to its rim - Anubis rising, Set falling - are not personalities; they're positions.
This card reminds you that the down-cycle is also temporary. The work is to ride the wheel without becoming it.
Luck, timing, the season changing.
The Wheel of Fortune reversed
Reversed, the wheel feels stuck - or it's turning in a direction you'd rather it didn't.
The Hermit's lantern (the prior card) is the answer here: step off the wheel long enough to see where it's going.
Keywords
- cycles
- luck
- timing
- fate
- change
Where this reading comes from
Meaning paraphrased from A. E. Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), which is in the public domain - reworded rather than reproduced.
Common questions
- What does The Wheel of Fortune mean?
- Cycles, the part of the turn you didn't choose. The Wheel of Fortune turns whether you push it or not. The figures clinging to its rim - Anubis rising, Set falling - are not personalities; they're positions.
- What does The Wheel of Fortune mean reversed?
- Reversed, the wheel feels stuck - or it's turning in a direction you'd rather it didn't.
- Is The Wheel of Fortune a good card to draw?
- The Wheel of Fortune is one of the twenty-two Major Arcana, which mark structural turns rather than day-to-day detail. Tarot convention treats no card as simply good or bad - the reading depends on the question and the position it falls in.
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