Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune
Number 10 Fire Jupiter
A major arcana card: the big weather rather than the daily forecast.
Upright
a turnluckcyclestiming
Things are about to change, and not because of anything you did. The Wheel is the card of luck and timing: the external turn, the call out of nowhere, the situation that resolves itself while you were braced for it not to. Its real subject is that nothing holds still, which is a threat when you are up and a mercy when you are down.
Reversed
a downturnbad timingresisting the turn
The turn is going the other way, or you are gripping the rim trying to stop it. Reversed, the Wheel is a run of bad timing, a cycle repeating because nothing about it has been changed, or the particular exhaustion of fighting something that was always going to move.
What is in the picture
A wheel in the sky with four winged figures at the corners, each reading a book. Whatever is happening, somebody is taking notes on it.
What it says about…
The line a reading leads with, depending on what you said you were asking about.
A bit of everything
Upright: a change is coming from outside. Position yourself rather than bracing.
Reversed: a cycle repeating, or a turn you are trying to hold still.
Love and relationships
Upright: chance plays a part here. Say yes to the invitation you would normally decline.
Reversed: the same pattern, a different person. That is the thing to look at.
Work and direction
Upright: an opportunity arriving off your own plan. Be reachable.
Reversed: poor timing rather than poor work. Wait out the quarter.
Money and security
Upright: a change in circumstances. Build the buffer now, while it is easy.
Reversed: an unexpected cost. Recoverable, but not ignorable.
Me, honestly
Upright: this phase is a phase. That applies to the good bit too.
Reversed: you keep arriving back here. The wheel is not the problem; the route is.
A decision I am stuck on
Upright: yes, and soon: the window here is a real one.
Reversed: wait. The conditions are against you and they will not stay that way.
With other cards
With The Chariot
Luck and effort in the same spread. The turn is coming from outside and what you do with it is entirely yours, which is as fair a division as the deck ever offers.
If this card leads
Move while it is turning your way; it will not be turning your way indefinitely.
As a yes or no
Upright, it reads as yes. Reversed, no.
“This will not stay as it is, in either direction.”
Draw it in a reading
The meaning above, applied to something you are actually asking about.
