Psychic Guild Blog

For the month of August, our featured tarot card is the Wheel of Fortune. It is the tenth trump card of the Major Arcana. What’s unique about this card is that it is one of the few without a human figure as the focal point.

It is often depicted as a clockwise-turning, six or eight-spoked wheel with figures, sometimes beasts, rising and falling with its movement. In the Rider-Waite version, it includes some Hebrew letters and alchemy symbols. Some decks draw it with a sphinx on top, while others have a human attendant beside the wheel. The AG Müller tarot card shows it with a blind-folded person beside the wheel.

Jupiter is this card’s ruling planet. There are different ways to interpret this card when it shows up during a tarot reading, but the most common is that it represents a vision, a realization or a turning point. The most obvious is that it represents luck and a change of fortune. It can mean abundance, joy and happiness for the querant. With its shape and natural movement, it can also mean evolution and change. But most tarot readers would interpret it as a pleasant surprise.

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