Fool

[Grey Inquisitor]

What do you think about the meaning of this card (the Fool) in Tarot? What's its number? First (0), last, other? What's it's occult meaning?

[Summer]

I am far from an expert, but I will tell you my opinion. The Fool's number is zero, and therefore the unknown comes into play when the Fool is drawn in a card reading. An element of anarchy is let in as well. To the Fool, nothing is sacred, therefore anything and everything is possible. The Fool can mean also just what he is-a fool. When I draw the Fool in one of my card readings I take it to mean that one is starting out on a new venture of some sort. I also take it to me folly, foolishness or extravagance can be playing a part. And that is all that I really know about the Fool. It isn't a card that I am too familiar with actually. Good luck figuring out what it means to you, Grey Inquisitor.

[Grey Inquisitor]

Thank you for your answer.

For me Fool is number 0 too, and I think, that the reason is that it can means every other card of Big [?] Arcanes. =) Just like as an actor. That's why, in my opinion, it still exists in playing cards as Joker (one card, that symbolize all Big Arcanes).

In my mind, the Fool is also a symbol of the purpose of the Way of Magick and Alchemy.

[Creator]

I have the Thoth Tarot (Crowley) and the meaning of each card seems a little deeper than with the ordinary RW deck.

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