Major Arcana Number

Major Arcana Characterization

Astrological Correlation

Concepts

0, naught, Zero

The Fool/Mime/ Jester/Clown/ Trickster

H, Uranus

Instinct, Beginning, Innervation, Courage, Anticipation, Wonder, Uninhibited, Folly Spontaneity, Vibrancy, Ingenuous, Veridical

The card of beginnings, where we encounter the ability to renew and reinvent self. The FOOL demonstrates the transpersonal aspects of whom we are, expressed outwardly.

The FOOL hungers for experience and adventure. The FOOL has an insatiable lust for life, and greedily rushes to embrace every opportunity. The FOOL is a seeker of knowledge. The FOOL'S goal is to know self, then expand awareness to reach a gnosis. The FOOL begins his journey with tentative steps, but filled with the joy of discovery.

Beginnings are times of fragility and vulnerability. The FOOL must pay close attention to determine where the soundest footings are; to learn discernment and to develop acumen.

Within The FOOL'S bag-of-tricks are all the lessons to be learned. The FOOL radiates the confidence of youth, the determination of the ages, and courage. Courage, that indefinable 'something' that enables one to face danger, fear, or vicissitudes with self-possession, confidence, and resolution, and emerge with zeal and lust intact. Courage may however, be indicative of folly: will The FOOL'S folly be controlled or reckless?

There is an adage that says every journey begins with a single step. Step out, now.