Wheel of Fortune: tarot card meaning

Wheel of Fortune is card X of the Major Arcana, associated with the element of Fire. Drawn upright it speaks of cycles, change, turn of fate; reversed, of resistance to change, setbacks, stuck patterns.

Upright meaning

cycles, change, turn of fate, momentum shift

The turn of fate is moving -- ride the cycle rather than trying to stop it, and stay ready for the new direction it brings.

Reversed meaning

resistance to change, setbacks, stuck patterns, bad luck

Resistance to the turn is what causes the strain -- the cycle turns anyway, so the sooner you move with it, the easier it goes.

Vedic and astrological correspondence

In a three-card reading

In the past position Wheel of Fortune describes the current that carried you to where you are; in the present position, what is most alive in the situation now; in the future position, the direction things tend toward if nothing changes. A reading weighs it against the other two cards rather than on its own.