Cast & Chart
Wheel of Fortune, Rider-Waite-Smith tarot card

Major Arcana

Wheel of Fortune

change, timing, luck, cycles

Upright

Destiny, fortune and elevation are the words here. A great wheel turns in the sky with a sphinx on top and creatures rising and falling on its rim, so the card is about circumstances that shift without asking you.

When a lucky break appears at work or in love, act while it is there and save something for a slower season. You can control how ready you are. A card is no forecast of markets, so take investment questions to a licensed adviser.

Reversed

Increase, abundance and superfluity are Waite's reversed words, which reads oddly beside the usual bad-luck story. Too much can come around as easily as too little.

Look at what has piled up: commitments, spending, offers you accepted during a good run. Keep what still helps, drop one thing this month, and stop counting on the run continuing.

A card is a prompt for reflection. It cannot promise a result, and it is no substitute for medical, legal or financial advice.

In Waite's words

Upright: Destiny, fortune, success, elevation, luck, felicity.

Reversed: Increase, abundance, superfluity.

From A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part 3, on Wikisource. The meanings above are by Cast & Chart.

Card art by Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.