Your Chosen Card – The Fool Reversed Rider Waite Deck
At some point during childhood, most kids hear their parents remonstrate: ‘If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?’ When reversed, the Fool cautions against unrealistic planning, naiveté, gullibility, irresponsibility, immaturity, premature action, and foolish risk-taking. The inverted Fool displays poor judgment and a lack of basic trust. Be sure to look before you leap or you may go off half-cocked on a pointless enterprise. Consider the consequences before engaging in impulsive or risky behavior. Especially avoid excessive use of drugs or alcohol.
Keywords Reversed: Folly, madness, stupidity, an unrealistic attitude, confusion, immaturity, eccentricity, insecurity, silliness, gullibility, foolishness, infatuation, intoxication, frenzy, needless risk, irresponsibility, uncertainty, premature action, muddleheadedness, questionable advice, recklessness, a pointless enterprise, foolish abandonment of material goods; a jester, madman, drifter, beggar; ‘fools rush in where angels fear to tread.’
Key 0: The Fool (traditionally not numbered, but labeled 0 in some modern decks)
Myths/Archetypes: The Court Jester. Perceval. Puer aeternus. The Innocent. The Orphan. The Seeker. The Idealist. The Wanderer. The Novice. The Sorcerers Apprentice.
Astrology: The element Air (the planet Uranus in some modern decks)
Numerology: 4 (Emperor) ~ 1 + 3 (Death) ~ 2 + 2 (The Fool)
0. The Fool: The Idealistic SorcererS Apprentice
When The Fool is reversed you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise. If The Fool is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is The Fool is trying to tell you. If you had a particular issue in mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.
This chosen card is part of your reversed card reading for The Fool using cards from the Rider Waite Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.
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Complete Book of Tarot: When calculating the birth card, if the sum of the digits is greater than 22, you must reduce that number again until you obtain a number between 1 to 22. Each number corresponds to an associated tarot trump, with 22 representing the Fool because the sum of birth numbers cannot equal 0.
Portable Magic: middle of the triangle, and covers around half of the Fool. Concentrate on the purpose you wish to achieve, imagining it in your mind as a thing in the process of becoming real. See its achievement clearly in your thoughts as though it were being acted out on stage or in a film.
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Portable Magic: middle of the triangle, and covers around half of the Fool. Concentrate on the purpose you wish to achieve, imagining it in your mind as a thing in the process of becoming real. See its achievement clearly in your thoughts as though it were being acted out on stage or in a film.