Major Arcana
The Fool
Upright
- ·beginnings
- ·innocence
- ·leap of faith
- ·spontaneity
Reversed
- ·recklessness
- ·naivety
- ·risk-taking
- ·foolishness
Upright
Nothing in your hand, a small dog at your heel, the cliff one step ahead. The Fool is what you look like when you stop pretending you know. There's an old kind of bravery in it, the kind that doesn't announce itself. You don't have a plan and that is the point. A door opens. You walk through. The sun is on your face. Whatever waits on the other side waits because you didn't try to know it first.
Reversed
Same step, taken in the wrong direction. The Fool reversed isn't faithlessness, it's recklessness wearing the same costume. You're about to leap and you haven't asked the small dog what it's barking at. There's a difference between trust and not paying attention. The card asks which one you're doing. Sometimes the answer is to slow down. Sometimes it's to look once at the ground before the foot lifts.
In the imagery
A young figure at the edge of a cliff in a white tunic patterned with flowers, looking up, not down. A small dog leaps beside him, alert. He carries a thin rod over one shoulder with a small bag tied to it — almost nothing, almost everything. A white rose in his other hand, the mountains behind him. The sun, fat and yellow, blazes over his shoulder. The number zero, which is everything and nothing at once.
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