From Touchstone TarotTM by Kat Black
Wheel of Fortune
Meanings
The only constant is change. Life moves ever onward in an eternal cycle. Misfortunes may come, but they will also pass. Seek a new beginning, a fresh path and good fortune will follow.
Reversed (?)
Run over by the wheel of life. Those who cannot adapt to life’s constant flux will never be content. Take care not to become bitter, for all misfortunes are balanced by Fate’s gifts.
Description
A wheel of robed figures holding messages is flanked by the symbols of the four evangelists: an angel, an eagle, a bull and a lion.
Artwork
- Angel wings and body: GENTILESCHI, Orazio, St Francis Supported by an Angel, c. 1603, Museo del Prado, Madrid.
- Eagle: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel, The Abduction of Ganymede, 1611-12, Schwarzenberg Palace, Vienna.
- Wheel: ANGELICO, Fra, The Vision of Ezekiel, c. 1450, Museo di San Marco, Florence.
- Bull: BACKER, Jacob de, The Nativity, 1500s, private collection.
- Boy's face: PERUGINO, Pietro, Portrait of a Young Man, 1495, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
- Lion: CRANACH, Lucas the Elder, Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg as St. Jerome, 1526, Ringling Museum of Art, Florida.
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