Tarot card meanings · Major Arcana 10
What does Wheel of Fortune mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Wheel of Fortune upright means “success, elevation, luck, felicity”, and reversed “Increase, abundance, superfluity”.
Upright
Success, elevation, luck, felicity.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Increase, abundance, superfluity.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
In this symbol I have again followed the reconstruction of Éliphas Lévi, who has furnished several variants. It is legitimate—as I have intimated—to use Egyptian symbolism when this serves our purpose, provided that no theory of origin is implied therein. I have, however, presented Typhon in his serpent form.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 2
Where does Wheel of Fortune fall in a reading?
Wheel of Fortune belongs to the Major Arcana. On this site you draw three cards, which take three of the places in the ten-card method Waite describes: “This covers him”, “This crosses him”, “This is before him”. The same card reads differently in each place, and the I Ching cast beside it may agree or disagree.
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Draw three cardsWaite's words are quoted as printed, and left out where they speak of money, law, illness or disaster. The pictures are the 1909 deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. For entertainment and self-reflection.