Wheel of Fortune
The Wheel of Fortune speaks to forces beyond personal control while emphasizing that your response to events is what truly matters. It urges you to recognize repeating cycles and patterns so you can learn from what worked and what didn't. The card's imagery — Anubis, the sphinx, Typhon, and the winged bull, lion, eagle, and angel — represents death, knowledge, misfortune, and the stabilizing wisdom that holds the wheel. By paying attention to these patterns and the recurring players in your life, you can break controllable cycles and even turn impending disaster into a blessing.
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WHEEL OF FORTUNE
Meaning:
So much of the world is beyond our control that it may seem that our daily lives are decided by the spin of a wheel. You can choose to call the turns of your life fate or luck; however, it is not so much the events that occur, but what you choose to make of them that matters. All is not chaos. The Wheel repeats its cycle and you can recognize patterns. Is the situation you're in or are the people you are encountering completely new? Life is a roulette, spinning and throwing things at you at random.
Imagery
Raise your head and see the figures guiding the ball: the jackal of Anubis representing death, the riddle-speaking sphinx representing knowledge, and the deadly serpent Typhon bringing misfortune. See those holding the wheel, with their wisdom and stability: the winged bull, the lion, the eagle, and the angel. The results may change, but the players always stay the same, and you will learn their ways in time. Remember what worked and what didn't in the past. Recognize and pay attention to the patterns and, with this knowledge, break some of the cycles within your control. Turn a coming disaster into a blessing.
Visual Description
A large rust-orange wheel dominates the card, shown from above with segmented panels and a central spindle. Surrounding the wheel are mythic figures and winged creatures including a human-faced winged figure, a bull, a lion, an eagle, and Egyptian figures such as a sphinx and an Anubis-like jackal. A rectangular inset at the center depicts a casino-style scene: hands placing chips on a betting layout and a close-up of a spinning roulette mechanism. The Roman numeral X appears at the top and the title "WHEEL of FORTUNE." is printed along the bottom edge.
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