Fool - Tarot Card Description
Posted by Luminakisharblaze on February 22, 2011 at 1:18pm in Kabbalah & Tarot Group
The Fool is numbered 0, the number of unlimited potential, and doesn't actually have a place in the sequence of the Tarot cards. The Fool can come either at the beginning of the Major Arcana, or at the end. In fact, the Major Arcana could be considered the Fool's journey through life, and as such, he is ever present, therefore needs no number.
When the Fool is seen as the beginning of the Majors, he is depicted as just beginning his journey, with unlimited potential. Like a newborn baby, the Fool is facing a world of choices and opportunities, and only he can decide the fate of his life. The rising sun behind him represents the beginning of his adventures. He is facing the North West, the direction of the unknown. He is looking upwards, toward the sky, or Spirit. He's a newborn soul about to step off a cliff into the material world. Is he prepared? Well, he has all the tools he needs in the bag on the staff, but he hasn't opened the bag yet. The staff itself represents his will. The white rose represents purity and innocence. Like any newborn, he is about to enter the world as a pure and innocent soul. He has unlimited potential, but at this point, it is all unrealized. He does have a guardian in the little white dog. The dog will protect him throughout his journey, but he will also push him to learn the lessons the Fool came here to learn. Notice the dog nipping at his heels, urging him forward. Life is wasted if no lessons are learned. While the dog will protect him, he will also push him into experiences whereby the Fool can grow and learn. The mountains behind the Fool represent the realms of Spirit that he has just left, and will spend his life trying to attain again. The valley he is about to step into represents our own physical, material world
tarot card meanings
Fool - Tarot Card Meanings
The Fool represents the beginning of all creativity and desire to accomplish goals. Each of us faces many choices in life. The choice is there choose wisely.
This is a card of potential, new beginnings, innocence. It may represent a choice to be made, one of vital importance. This is the card where anything can happen, and the opportunities are just waiting to be taken advantage of. If you get this card and it is upright, it is a positive card, for the Fool is one who is the divine innocent.
This is an excellent card to meditate on if you are experiencing a lot of fear in your life. The Fool enhances courage, risk-taking, and the creative expression needed to open up new areas in your life. The Fool is always whole, healthy and without fear. He is the spirit of who we are, the spirit expressed and experienced as wonder, awe, curiosity and anticipation. We never know what's in the future, but like the Fool, we must blindly go forward. He teaches a lesson about making right choices. It's good to be focused on spiritual matters, but stay grounded at the same time in the physical world.
Someone who is naive, gullible, child-like in their way of thinking but not necessarily innocence. The subject of the reading is a dreamer. One who lives in their own little happy world when it comes to the way they perceive things. He or she has desire to succeed but must be careful.
Trust. You need to trust that you are a spirit born into flesh to enjoy life and grow in experience. Take a chance and see what happens. Be open as a child. Risk seeming a bit foolish, naive or optimistic. A sense of humour is vital.
The fool is the beginning of something which will bring you happiness. You will begin a new enterprise which will afford you the opportunity to work with or teach the public on a grander scale, and if you've been thinking about leaving your current job or taking a leave of absence; in time, you will. A relative will be job hunting, or a major decision will be required from you that can be put off no longer. If it concerns a change of residence, you'll decide against it.
Thoughtlessness, folly, extravagance, lack of discipline. Immaturity, irrationality. Insecurity. Frivolity. Delirium. Frenzy. Enthusiasm. Naivety.
Someone represented by the Fool promises to be unforgettable, unconventional, and challenging, whose social or cultural background is likely to be very different from your own, requiring adjustments on both sides. Often the Fool symbolizes a partner who is much older or younger than you. Whatever, the differences, this person can open your eyes, showing you a wider world that you ever dreamed possible. All you ideas will receive a serious shaking up as a result of your connection with this individual. His lust for life is undeniable, accompanied by a hunger for knowledge and passion for ideas which are catching. Together you will discover the playful side of love, for this person loves to have fun and longs to make you laugh. He may not hold down a steady job, but will usually find the money to buy amusing gifts for you or spring imaginative surprises.
Some see The Fool as the obvious - someone foolish and/or naive, someone so stupid that he doesn't look where he is going. Others see him as someone taking a leap into the unknown. The Fool is often portrayed as wild youth, dancing in ecstatic abandonment at the edge of a precipice, or standing on the edge of a precipice (cliff of some kind) with one foot up and out, ready to step off the edge. Depending on the reading, the Fool is someone about to begin a new journey or new phase of life. Hence, the first card or beginning of The Fool's journey. He has a fresh outlook, childlike wonder, excitement and abandon. He is full of trust and faith as he sets out on his journey. Beginnings of any kind often involve a "leap of faith" and The Fool has the faith to believe that life is good and worthy of trust.
On the other hand, The Fool could also represent someone who does not think ahead and takes foolish risks. He reminds of us the warning "look before you leap." He could also represent someone who is fearful of stepping out into the unknown.
Fool - Reversed Tarot Card Meanings
Reversed, the Fool suggest that you may be acting in total disregard to the consequences of your actions and indeed becoming 'the fool'. You are trying to live in the moment rather than planning ahead. There is a certain childish behaviour, perhaps returning to some of your childhood habits.
In a relationship reading, the Fool reversed can indicate that the relationship has been on the knife's edge for some time. The nature of the relationship may be highly changeable and uncertain, with spontaneity taken to a whole new level where you were often unsure about where things are heading and whether you can safely depend on your partner or not. You may both be high risk takers with little consideration for the long-term consequences of your actions. This may bring with it excitement and suspense, but also an underlying feeling of uncertainty and insecurity.
The reversed Fool may also indicate a reckless and immature person who is wanting to break free of the usual routine to 'find themselves' but is doing it in a way that completely disregards others.
(Source http://www.biddytarot.com/card.php?id=4&name=Fool)