10-The Wheel of Fortune – Reversed Golden Deck

Your Chosen Card – The Wheel of Fortune Reversed Golden Deck

When reversed, the Wheel of Fortune cautions that your good luck can’t last forever. What goes up must come down. Each season gives way to the next, and you need to be prepared for the possibility of a rainy day. Although our fate is largely what we make it, unexpected things can happen that are outside of our control. Keep in mind the words of Brutus:

Keywords Reversed: Bad luck, a downward cycle, misfortune, a turn for the worse, fateful events, impermanence, procrastination, not seizing the moment, having no choice but to submit, feeling powerless to affect circumstances, the fickle finger of 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)

Mathers: Good fortune, success, unexpected luck; (R) ill-fortune, failure, unexpected ill-luck.

When The Wheel of Fortune is reversed 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 reversed card reading for The Wheel of Fortune using cards from the Golden 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.


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Complete Book of Tarot
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Complete Book of Tarot: In my late teens, I started reading Freud and Jung and became fascinated with dream symbols and psychological archetypes. My study of the celestial science resonated with what these two great psychologists had to say. In my own experience, Jung’s writings made sense regarding the contents of the collective unconscious. The same images that populated mythology, religion, and world literature cropped up in astrology and tarot. The symbolism shared by psychology, psychoanalysis, and astrology held my attention throughout my studies.

Tarot Books

Complete Book of Tarot: The Crown—the initial spark of creation. Kether is associated with the primum mobile, and according to some modern astrologers, the planet Pluto. The tarot cards related to the number one are the Magician (I), the Wheel of Fortune (X, 1 + 0 = 1), the Sun (XIX, 1 + 9 = 10 1 + 0 = 1), and the four Aces, representing the pure potential and initial spark of the four elements.

Tarot Triumphs: The Wheel will never stop turning. Hope and ambition flourish on the way up; disappointment may follow on the way down. The Wheel of Fortune can be a rapid path to success, or a treadmill, or an unexpected turn of luck for good or ill. Chance affects everyone. Acceptance of change and taking opportunities as they are presented are potential benefits.

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Tarot Triumphs: The Wheel will never stop turning. Hope and ambition flourish on the way up; disappointment may follow on the way down. The Wheel of Fortune can be a rapid path to success, or a treadmill, or an unexpected turn of luck for good or ill. Chance affects everyone. Acceptance of change and taking opportunities as they are presented are potential benefits.