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The Wheel of Fortune card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

A great wheel marked with letters and alchemical signs turns in the sky, a sphinx above it, a serpent descending and four winged figures reading in the corners.

Upright

  • Turning
  • Cycles
  • Chance

The oldest sense of the card is simply that conditions change and not all of it is yours to arrange. It asks what part of the present you have been treating as permanent.

Reversed

  • Resistance
  • Stuck turn
  • Repetition

Read reversed, the turn is being braced against, or the same arc keeps coming round because nothing about how it is met has altered.

About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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