Upright
Destiny, fortune, success, elevation, luck, felicity.
Reversed
Increase, abundance, superfluity.
Reflection
Light
Allowing events to unfold
Seeing the larger pattern in everyday events
Trusting your luck
Watching for cycles
Believing that "what goes around, comes around"
Shadow
Losing money gambling
Refusing to do your part to bring a plan to fruition
Taking a fatalistic approach to life
Fighting the natural course of events
Symbolism
In this symbol I have again followed the reconstruction of Éliphas Lévi, who has furnished several variants. It is legitimate--as I have intimated--to use Egyptian symbolism when this serves our purpose, provided that no theory of origin is implied therein. I have, however, presented Typhon in his serpent form. The symbolism is, of course, not exclusively Egyptian, as the four Living Creatures of Ezekiel occupy the angles of the card, and the wheel itself follows other indications of Lévi in respect of Ezekiel's vision, as illustrative of the particular Tarot Key. With the French occultist, and in the design itself, the symbolic picture stands for the perpetual motion of a fluidic universe and for the flux of human life. The Sphinx is the equilibrium therein. The transliteration of Taro as Rota is inscribed on the wheel, counterchanged with the letters of the Divine Name--to shew that Providence is imphed through all. But this is the Divine intention within, and the similar intention without is exemplified by the four Living Creatures. Sometimes the sphinx is represented couchant on a pedestal above, which defrauds the symbolism by stultifying the essential idea of stability amidst movement.
The Fool
The Magician
The High Priestess
The Empress
The Emperor
The Hierophant