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Waite–Smith, Trump 10

Wheel of Fortune

A wheel marked with letters and symbols is flanked by descending and rising creatures. A sword-bearing sphinx sits above, and four winged figures occupy the corners.
Enlarge ↗Source scan, PDF p. 122 ↗

What you can see

A wheel marked with letters and symbols is flanked by descending and rising creatures. A sword-bearing sphinx sits above, and four winged figures occupy the corners.

What Waite says

Waite describes movement in the universe and human life, with the sphinx supplying equilibrium. He allows Egyptian imagery for symbolic purposes while explicitly refusing to make its use proof of Egyptian origins.

Waite · Part II, §2 · printed pp. 108–111 ↗
Edition and image credits

Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.