10-The Wheel of Fortune – Upright Rider Waite Deck

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Your Chosen Card – The Wheel of Fortune Upright Rider Waite Deck

When upright, the Wheel of Fortune reminds us that our good fortune is often the result of twists of fate rather than our own doing. Now is a time to enjoy your good luck because it can change just as rapidly tomorrow. If things are going well now, be sure to make the best of it and put something aside for a rainy day. For the time being, destiny is smiling upon you. Seize the moment because an opportunity that presents itself today may not remain available tomorrow. Contemplate the lyrics of the Pete Seeger song ‘Turn, Turn, Turn,’ which sets the biblical words to music: ‘To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven’ (Ecclesiastes 3:1, KJV).

Keywords Upright: Good luck, destiny, opportunities for advancement, an upward trend, seizing the moment, remaining open to opportunity, natural cycles, a turn for the better, seizing the moment, twists of fate, Lady Luck, the slings and arrows of fortune, time will tell, the acceptance of one’s fate.

Key X: The Wheel of Fortune (Dame Fortune)
Myths/Archetypes: Lady Luck. Dame Fortune. The three Norns. The Fates of Greek mythology. The Soothsayer. The fickle finger of fate.
Astrology: Jupiter, the greater benefic. (Jupiter rules Sagittarius and Pisces)
Numerology: 1 (Magician) = 1 + 0 (Wheel of Fortune) = 1 + 9 (The Sun)

Rider Waite: Destiny, fortune, success, elevation, luck, felicity; (R) increase, abundance, superfluity.

When The Wheel of Fortune is upright you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If The Wheel of Fortune is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is The Wheel of Fortune is trying to tell you.  If you had a particular issue in  mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.

This chosen card is part of your upright card reading for The Wheel of Fortune using cards from the Rider Waite Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.

Here are some snippets from a few of my favorite books

Portable Magic
Book Details
Portable Magic: Each suit contains ten tarot cards numbered from One to Ten. The Ones are often known as Aces. Each suit also holds four noble or court tarot cards generally known as the King, Queen, Knight, and Page. In some esoteric decks these names are altered, but the system of Golden Dawn correspondences used throughout this book is based on the order of the court tarot cards, and remain unchanged regardless of how the tarot cards may be titled, or what specific details of symbolism appear on the tarot cards. The Page has the same associations whether it is called the Knave or the Princess because it is the fourth of the four court tarot cards of its suit. For the sake of familiarity I have used the names for the court tarot cards employed in the popular Rider Waite Tarot King, Queen, Knight, and Page.

Tarot Books

Complete Book of Tarot: Jupiter is the king of the gods who bestows good luck. He is assigned to the Wheel of Fortune, trump X. Jupiter is the planet of expansion, abundance, broadening horizons, and good fortune.

Reversed Cards: The Wheel of Fortune has a strong connection to the cycles of the earth and more directly to the changing seasons. The world as we know it shifts and changes with the direction of the wind. Spring, summer, fall, and winter, continuously spinning. Always there. Always consistent. Even when you live close to the equator, you experience seasonal changes. They may not be the same as in areas with more obvious seasons, but they are still there. This constant, stable, gentle shift of energy reminds us of the Wheel of Fortune in the protection aspect. It is very comforting to know the days will get longer and warmer when one is in the throngs of a cold, dark, and bitter winter, just as there is hope in the coming coolness of fall after a hideously hot and uncomfortable summer. This consistent change is stabilizing because we know it is like the wheel, forever moving and always returning. When the wheel shows up in the protection position in a reading, this is the gift it offers. A consistent, stable changing energy. A promise of another chance. A hope of returning opportunities and the promise that this too shall pass.

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Reversed Cards: The Wheel of Fortune has a strong connection to the cycles of the earth and more directly to the changing seasons. The world as we know it shifts and changes with the direction of the wind. Spring, summer, fall, and winter, continuously spinning. Always there. Always consistent. Even when you live close to the equator, you experience seasonal changes. They may not be the same as in areas with more obvious seasons, but they are still there. This constant, stable, gentle shift of energy reminds us of the Wheel of Fortune in the protection aspect. It is very comforting to know the days will get longer and warmer when one is in the throngs of a cold, dark, and bitter winter, just as there is hope in the coming coolness of fall after a hideously hot and uncomfortable summer. This consistent change is stabilizing because we know it is like the wheel, forever moving and always returning. When the wheel shows up in the protection position in a reading, this is the gift it offers. A consistent, stable changing energy. A promise of another chance. A hope of returning opportunities and the promise that this too shall pass.