Wheel of Fortune Tarot Cards
There are cards in the tarot that you approach with reverence. Cards that, when they appear in a spread, make the reader pause and the querent lean forward. The Wheel of Fortune is one of them. Not because it is frightening — it is not, or not exactly — but because it carries a weight that the other cards don’t quite match. The weight of time. The weight of the great turning that operates above and beneath all human effort, the cosmic rhythm that no amount of will or planning or brilliance can ultimately override.
The Wheel of Fortune is card ten of the Major Arcana. It arrives after the Hermit has descended from his mountain and before Justice balances her scales. It is the pivot point of the Fool’s Journey — the moment when the soul stops moving through individual archetypes of personality and inner work and confronts, for the first time, something larger than itself: the turning of fate, the cycles of life, the great wheel that carries everyone up and down regardless of their merit, their effort, or their wishes.
The Wheel of Fortune does not ask whether you are ready for change. It turns.



























































































