by Mouse

Created on: August 15, 2010   Last Updated: August 16, 2010

The Fool Card is a threshold card. It talks about the soul. The Fool is the card whose life story is told in the Tarot. He represents and sympathises with the enquirer.

For the purposes of this article, I am referring to The Fool Card, as depicted in the Sharman-Caselli deck. I favour this version of the card as:

• It's a very visual deck.

• It's a deck suitably accessible to absolute beginners, through to the most advanced of readers.

• It's a widely used and easily accessible deck that is favoured by professional readers.

• I use this deck when working either with new, or 'at a distance' clients.

The artwork of The Fool Card reflects passion for life in the bright sunshine, the butterfly and the white rose, all of which symbolise that intangible something that gives life it's zest. The cliff represents that this young man is right at the edge of a new phase of life, about to step off into the great unknown.

In its dignified aspect (the right way up) this card represents the desire to make a change overcoming the discomfort and anxiety in making that change. Typically, this card comes up where the querant has big “life changing” decisions to make. These decisions are usually also 'black and white' in nature – i.e. there's a definite choice – for example: “do I take the house or keep looking?”

In its ill dignified aspect (the wrong way up) I tend to find that this card comes up a lot when the querant is not only experiencing such a situation, but that deep down inside, they very often have already made up their mind, but they may be having trouble reconciling their decision with their conscious mind. If this is the case, the reader must proceed cautiously to help the querant to face their decision, especially as there are likely to be larger emotional issues waiting in the wings here and an ethical reader must always be careful of their client's emotional well-being.

SOME GENERAL NOTES ABOUT TAROT:

As with all other Tarot activities, you should ALWAYS follow your own instincts. - Tarot is a tool which helps us to evaluate our own and our querant's psyche and attune to our psychic, emotional, psychological and instinctive reactions to the situations and questions we face.

A Tarot spread is NEVER "set in stone" - it shows us the reality right now, at this moment, before we make any more decisions and the LIKELY direction that life may head in, judging from where we are at in our

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