 
typical
symbols of the
WHEEL OF FORTUNE card
- Animals
- 4 beasts from Revelations 4:7-8 “The first animal was like a lion, the second like a bull, the third animal had a human face, and the fourth animal was like a flying eagle.” A footnote in the Jerusalem Bible states that following Iraeneus the four beasts came to symbolize the four evangelists.
These can also be seen as the fixed signs of the
zodiac.
- The bull
to Taurus.
- The lion
to Leo.
- The
eagle to Scorpio
- The man
or angel to Aquarius.
- Hebrew
Letters - that spell the name of God which
is never spoken, Yod He Vau He.
- Hermes/Anubis
- the symbol of intelligence ever aspiring to
ascend.
- Eight
Spokes - universal radiant energy.
- Letters
- on the wheel that spell TARO are an anagram
which spell Tarot or Rota (wheel)
or Orat (to speak) or Tora (the
law) or Ator (the Goddess Hathor). The
completed sentence reads "The Wheel of the
Tarot speaks the Law of Hathor."
- Sphinx - the
principle of equilibrium, stability within
movement, mystery and hidden knowledge.
- Symbols
on the Spokes - (from the top clockwise) mercury,
sulfur, water, salt.
- Typhon
- the Egyptian god of evil, seen descending the
wheel into darkness and disintegration.
- The Wheel
- is comprised of three circles. The same as in
the Hierophant's crown.
- The
inner is the creative force.
- The
middle is formative power.
- The
outer is the material world.
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Textbook
of the Tarot by Janet Berres of the International
Tarot Society
A Complete Guide to the Tarot by Eden Gray
Sources of the Waite/Smith Tarot Symbols
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