| The Fool is one of the Major Arcana cards. The tarot | | | | There is a call for us to step out into the unknown, |
| deck is based on the journey of the Fool, and the | | | | take a risk, and trust that we will be supported. Even |
| Major Arcana starts with the Fool and ends with the | | | | though we will not know whether the outcome will |
| World. The Major Arcana represents the circle of life | | | | make us look foolish or give us the awareness we are |
| in all its complicated stages such as spirituality, mortality, | | | | looking for two allow us to go on to the next cycle. |
| love, and change. When a Major Arcana card shows | | | | The image of the fool in most tarot decks is usually |
| up in a spread it often indicates that there are major | | | | depicted by a young and carefree person who is |
| changes and lessons to be learned. The circle or cycle | | | | embarking on life's journey, and can represent an |
| of life is also a circle that happens many times in one | | | | irrational need for change and freedom for the |
| lifetime, and is not just a chronological cycle, and it | | | | individual. This card is often associated with Uranus, the |
| seems that most everything that happens to us in our | | | | unpredictably powerful planet of change. |
| lives as a beginning, a middle, and an end. | | | | In the upright position the card indicates a need for |
| The journey of the Fool who is the first of the 22 | | | | change and a willingness to leap into the unknown in |
| Arcana cards starts with our birth. We emerge from | | | | order to achieve this goal. |
| the womb into the world of the unknown, the beginning | | | | In the reversed position the Fool can indicate an |
| of our journey from childhood to adulthood. It is worth | | | | individual's energy is low, and because of this they are |
| stating at this stage that this card is a rite of passage | | | | unable to move forward in their challenging cycle, thus |
| card just like all the other Arcana cards. With the Fool | | | | slowing them down on the circle of life. |
| as we reach the end of a journey we begin a new | | | | In this article, I have tried to give some basic practical |
| cycle, however, this new cycle will be either higher or | | | | knowledge about the Fool, however, it is my belief that |
| deeper than the last one. | | | | we should always allow our intuition and psychic ability |
| So when the fool appears in a tarot spread it puts us | | | | to guide us in a tarot reading. |
| on notice that a new chapter of life is about to begin. | | | | |