The Wheel of Fortune as Intentions: To Let Circumstance Decide

Written by Chaya the Medium.

The Wheel of Fortune as intentions is a plan that depends on the turn. Here is what I would read in it, upright and reversed, and why that is both hopeful and unsettled.

If you want the short answer, I would read the Wheel of Fortune as intentions that are in motion and not fully chosen. In an intentions position the card suggests the person's plans toward you are being shaped by circumstance: a change in their life, a sense of timing, an opening they did not make. They intend to go with the turn. Where the turn takes them is not a decision they have made.

This is the wheel with the figures rising and falling on its rim. The person intends to ride it. They have not decided where to get off.

The Wheel of Fortune upright as intentions

Tina Gong's the Wheel of Fortune guide at Labyrinthos associates the upright card with cycles, destiny, turning points and change. When the card lands in a position that asks what someone intends toward you, I read those meanings as the shape of their plan rather than as a promise about what they will do. Feelings and intentions are different questions; the Wheel of Fortune as feelings covers the first, and this page covers the second. The Major Arcana overview at Biddy Tarot is a useful second reference.

Upright, I read the Wheel as a person whose intention toward you has shifted or is shifting with events, often for the better: something has changed in their life and you have become more possible. The intention is real and it is riding on circumstance, which means it is carried on when circumstance changes unless the person chooses to step off the wheel and stand with you.

What I would not read into it is a fixed plan. The Wheel intends the turn. Choosing is a different card, and the Wheel does not always get there.

What the card does not tell you

The card does not confirm the turn is toward you rather than away from where they were, that the intention will hold when the wheel moves again, or that the person is choosing rather than being carried. No card lets a reader see another person's plans. What a card can do is describe the kind of intention that fits the person's behaviour, and give you something to check against what they actually do.

The Wheel of Fortune reversed as intentions

Reversed, the Wheel of Fortune as intentions describes a cycle repeating: a person whose plans toward you keep coming round to the same place without landing, or who intends to resist a turn that is already happening. It is the card of the on-and-off relationship, and it asks what would be different this time.

In your own question, ask whether you have been here before with this person, several times, and what they did the last time the wheel brought them round. A reversed card as intentions is a prompt to compare what is said with what is done, not a diagnosis of bad faith.

The Wheel of Fortune as an ex's intentions

Asked about an ex, the Wheel as intentions can suggest their plans are turning back toward you with a change in their circumstances. I would treat that carefully. An intention that came round with the wheel can go round again, and on-and-off relationships are what this card looks like from the inside. My guide to asking a psychic whether an ex will come back explains what a reading can and cannot say about that question.

The Wheel of Fortune as a new person's intentions

For someone new, this card describes an intention that has arrived with a sense of timing or fate, which is lovely and is not the same as a decision. Let the wheel bring them, and then watch whether they step off it and choose.

What their intentions look like in action

Look for intention with a story attached: talk of timing, of how things lined up, of fate. A Wheel intention is narrative. Notice whether, once the story has been told, the person does anything ordinary and deliberate to keep you.

What to record before drawing again

Keep three short notes: the question you asked, what has changed in the person's life that might be turning the wheel, and what you would need to see to believe the intention is theirs and not the moment's.

For comparison, the Tower as feelings and the Fool as intentions describe different intentions. The the Wheel of Fortune card meaning page covers the card in full, and the Wheel of Fortune as a person and the Wheel of Fortune as a yes or no cover the other questions people most often ask of it. For a personal interpretation, my guide to a love psychic reading online explains how I work, and the three-card tarot listing and customer reviews are worth reading before deciding whether to order.