Wheel of Fortune Tarot Card Meaning

Wheel of Fortune is card X of the Major Arcana. Upright it speaks of cycles, change, destiny; reversed, of resistance to change, bad luck. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's Jungian archetype and its astrological correspondence.

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Upright meaning

“Destiny, fortune, success, elevation, luck, felicity”

A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: cycles, change, destiny, turning point, luck.

Reversed meaning

“Increase, abundance, superfluity”

A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: resistance to change, bad luck, breaking cycles.

The archetype

Enantiodromia — the turning of psychic cycles; fate experienced as the spiral of the Self.

Astrology

Correspondence: Jupiter.