An empty crossroads on a heath at night, a leaning signpost and poppy heads in the verge.

The tarot · X

Wheel of Fortune

Lord of the Forces of Life

The face of X, Wheel of Fortune, engraved in gold on black, with its title, Lord of the Forces of Life.

Cycles, fortune and the turning of fate.

Upright

Change is coming and it is larger than you. Luck, timing and destiny are in play. Ride the turn; what rises now was set in motion long ago.

Reversed

Resisting change, a run of bad luck or repeating a pattern you have not yet learned from.

Show the spirits

The spirit work

Hismael is the spirit of Jupiter under the intelligence Iophiel. Fortuna favours the bold and the grateful. Mark this card’s appearance against the calendar; it often points to a real turning point in time.

A question to sit with

Which part of this cycle am I in, and what does it ask of me?

Where the card sits

Correspondences

Path21, Chesed to Netzach
Hebrew letterKaph, the palm, value 20
AstrologyJupiter, planet
Presiding powerFortuna, she who turns the wheel
Governing angelsArchangel Sachiel; intelligence Iophiel
SpiritHismael, spirit of Jupiter; Olympic spirit Bethor
Sealthe sigil of Hismael on the kamea of Jupiter
RuneJera, the year: harvest, cycles and reward in its season
Wheel of Fortune in the guidebookAll seventy-eight cards

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Notes on sources

The meanings, the questions and the correspondences are the guidebook’s own. The paths, letters and astrology follow the Golden Dawn’s attributions; the angels are the Shem ha-Mephorash, as the deck gives them; the spirits, shown only when you ask for them, are the seventy-two of the Goetia. Where each comes from, and what is old and what is modern, is set out in the guidebook’s Notes on sources and seals.