THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE TAROT CARD EXPLAINED

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Fool & Monty art by Andy Meanock ©2022 All Rights Reserved

The appearance of the Wheel of Fortune is universally associated with changes happening in our lives. This can be read as encouragement during hard times that things will inevitably get better, and serves as a reminder to be grateful when things are going well for us. It also asks us to consider how we respond to the uncertainties in life. Are there lessons to be learned from these seemingly random shifts in circumstances?
When the Wheel appears upside down it can mean a resistance to change, a bit like trying to swim against the currents of the universe. According to Rachel Pollack ‘Reversed, the card signifies a struggle against events, usually doomed because the change has already happened and life will always win against the personality that tries to oppose it.’
However, on the upside it can also be an indicator of escaping from a pattern that’s having a negative impact on us. Our lives tend to work in cycles and getting an awareness of cause and effect can encourage us to make positive changes.
The big takeaway for the Wheel of Fortune is the changeable nature of reality and our place within it. Many believe that there are mystical cycles and rhythms to the cosmos and that we are all part of a much greater celestial plan. According to Waite ‘The Wheel stands for the perpetual motion of a fluidic universe and flux of human life’. Certainly the themes of chance and unpredictability are richly apparent in the card numbered at 10 in the major arcana. As Shakespeare wrote in act II of King Lear ‘Fortune, good night, smile once more; Turn thy wheel’.

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BOOKS MENTIONED

THE KEY TO THE TAROT by Arthur Edward Waite, Rider
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78 DEGREES OF WISDOM by Rachel Pollack, Thorsons
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THE TAROT by Paul Foster Case, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
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MODERN MAGICK by Donald Micheal Kraig, Lewellyn Publishing
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FOOL’S JOURNEY
WOOD Image by Дарья Яковлева from Pixabay
ALL RIDER WAITE TAROT CARDS By Authorship: [Arthur Edward Waite], Pamela Coleman Smith was the artist and worked as an artist. Waite was the copyright holder and he died in 1942. - This image scanned by Holly Voley, PD-US, [ Ссылка ]
PATH Image by aalmeidah from Pixabay
BOOK Image by Frauke Riether from Pixabay
WAND Image by Parker_West from Pixabay
CHALICE Image by Sunny Sunflower from Pixabay
PENTAGRAM Image by Sunny Sunflower from Pixabay
SWORD Image by IMG4FreeRgood1 from Pixabay
DOG BARKING AUDIO by Blu_150058 @ freesound.org
BIRDS SINGING by Luke100000 @ freesound.org

FERRIS WHEEL Video by Asim Bashir from Pixabay
SWIMMER Video by Engin Akyurt from Pixabay
LADY IN LEAVES Image by DanaTentis from Pixabay
FERRIS WHEEL Video by Thomas Meier from Pixabay
FORTUNA Hans Sebald Beham , CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
WHEEL OF FORTUNE from Editor d’other Jean Miélot, Christine de Pizan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
LADY LUCK Elizabeth K. Joseph from San Francisco, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
YHWH [ Ссылка ], CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
STAINED GLASS WINDOW Pvasiliadis, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
JEHOVAH WINDOW Pvasiliadis, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
STAR SIGNS Image by Dorothe from Pixabay
MOUNT ETNA BenAveling, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
ANUBIS Jeff Dahl, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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