The fool (tarot)
The Fool is one of the also great Arkana -called trump cards of the Tarot .
presentation
The card usually shows a young man, but the representations often differ widely.
In the Visconti-Sforza game, the card shows a young, bearded man with a double chin and feathers in his hair, he only wears rags and his trousers (or underpants?) Hang from his legs.
In the Waite Tarot you see a richly dressed youth who runs carefree and looking up at the sky towards an abyss. In one hand he carries a small white flower, in the other a stick with a bundle hanging from it.
In the Crowley Tarot you can see a Dionysus bursting with strength and lust, hanging in the air. It is in a suggested egg. Symbols that can be found on the card: Hermes' staff, egg, wine, crocodile, two small children, a tri-fold flower, the sun as a phallus, a chalice, grapes, coins and a lucifuge.
With Hermann Haindl you can see a court jester with a strong androgynous charisma; his face is as unfathomable as the Mona Lisa. A fool's finger points to the wound in the chest of a swan, whose neck is enormously excessively long and meandering upwards.
interpretation
As a 0, the fool symbolizes youthful ignorance and recklessness, the carefree stepping into life. As XXII it symbolizes the “hero” disappearing into nothingness. Éliphas Lévi , one of the founders of modern occultism , places the fool as a 0 between the cards Court (XX) and The World (XXI) and interprets them as failure down the line, as failure on the home straight.
Equivalents
- the element of air
- the Hebrew letter א( Aleph )
history
The card has no numbering except for two old decks (e.g. Sola Busca with “0” and the Belgian Tarot with XXII). Historically, the card is sometimes both the highest trump card and a low value card.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ tarothermit.com ( Memento of February 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).