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The Fool Tarot Card Meaning
The Fool is card 0 of the Major Arcana. Upright it speaks of beginnings, spontaneity, faith; reversed, of recklessness, naivety. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's Jungian archetype and its astrological correspondence.
Major ArcanaAirUranus
Upright meaning
“Folly, mania, extravagance, intoxication, delirium, frenzy, bewrayment”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911
Keywords: beginnings, spontaneity, faith, innocence, leap of faith.
Reversed meaning
“Negligence, absence, distribution, carelessness, apathy, nullity, vanity”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911
Keywords: recklessness, naivety, fear of change, held back.
The archetype
The eternal child (puer aeternus) — the Self at the threshold of individuation; holy innocence, the leap into the unknown.
Astrology
Correspondence: Uranus.
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