Wheel of Fortune

Major Arcana · Card 10

Upright keywords

cycleschangeturning pointtiming

Reversed keywords

resistance to changebroken cycleill luck

Traditional meaning

A great wheel turns in the sky with a sphinx above it and a serpent descending its side, while four winged creatures read their books at the corners. The Wheel of Fortune represents the turning cycles of life and change arriving on its own schedule.

Reflection

The Wheel of Fortune may point toward a turning already in motion around you. What shifts when you stop bracing against the cycle and look for your part in it?

Relationships

Can invite reflection on how a bond changes shape through its seasons rather than staying fixed.

Career

May suggest that timing plays a role alongside effort, and that noticing an opening matters.

Growth

Often asks how you meet change when it arrives unbidden.

Illustration: Pamela Colman Smith (1909), public domain.