Intuition and the Wheel of Fortune

Have you ever had that sudden, almost inexplicable feeling that you needed to do something? Call someone out of nowhere, go to a specific place, or crave a food you barely remembered existed?

Yeah. We usually call that intuition.And in Jung’s Analytical Psychology, intuition is much more than a “hunch.”

Jung said that we perceive the world through four main functions: sensation, thinking, feeling, and intuition.

Sensation perceives what is concrete.Thinking organizes and explains.Feeling evaluates what has value.But intuition… intuition perceives what lies behind things. It captures possibilities, paths, directions, before anything becomes clear to the rational mind. It’s as if our unconscious were sending us a message — an arrow pointing the way — before we’re able to justify why.

For example:

I remember a story about someone who felt an overwhelming urge to go to a specific, distant supermarket just to buy a dish that wasn’t even that important. Once there, while waiting in line, they ran into someone who ended up helping transform their entire professional life. A seemingly silly decision… that changed everything. And almost didn’t happen.

Jung said that when we ignore intuition, we ignore something alive within us — the unconscious trying to participate in conscious life. And this dynamic is also deeply present in the Wheel of Fortune, in Tarot. This arcana speaks of movement, cycles turning, changes arriving. Almost always bringing good winds, new opportunities… but also reminding us that life is made of highs and lows — a constant flow.

The Wheel speaks of destiny, but not in a fixed sense. It speaks of karma, of harvest:If you plant, you reap.If you’re connected to your intuition, you can trust movements that make no rational sense. Take the risk.

But the Wheel doesn’t turn only in the light — it turns in the shadow too. And part of our growth is integrating these opposites. Understanding that change is not loss — it’s process. So when that impulse comes, that subtle voice… That calling no one understands but you feel… Recognize it. Breathe. Listen.

Life is moving. And sometimes your only task is to follow the turn. But remember to be careful with polarity and extremes. If you manage to stay at the axis of the wheel of life, the highs and lows are felt with less intensity compared to the edges.

Arcana 10 also brings an important numerical symbol: 1 + 0.1 is the initial impulse, the seed, the beginning.0 is absolute potential, the creative void, the point before form.When they meet, they form 10, which represents the end of a complete cycle.

The Wheel of Fortune is the moment when we reach the peak, the top of the mountain — but it’s precisely there, at the top, that the descent begins. Not as a fall, but as continuity. Cycles complete so that new cycles can be born. It is the point where life says: you’ve arrived… and now you can go beyond.

The movement of evolution is cyclical, but always in different octaves, made in a spiral. Cycles complete so that new ones can emerge. Accept the ending so the new may arrive.