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Your Chosen Card – The Fool Upright Golden Deck

When upright, the Fool suggests a leap of faith and a desire to explore the unknown with a ‘beginners mind.’ The Fool has a basic trust that things will turn out well in the end, but he has not yet acquired the ability to navigate his way skillfully through the practical affairs of everyday life. He is starting out on a new and exciting journey in which he will encounter marvelous adventures and seek spiritual growth. When this card appears in a reading, it is important to keep your wits about you as you take risks and explore the unknown. At the same time, this card cautions you to avoid foolish idealism and not undertake mundane projects unless you are well prepared for handling any pragmatic aspects.

Keywords Upright: Opening up to new possibilities, idealism, a leap of faith, a fresh start, opportunities for growth, childlike wonder, trust, innocence, enthusiasm, curiosity, inexperience, initiation, an unexpected opening, embarking on an exciting journey, experimentation, freedom to explore, a spiritual quest, opening your mind to new learning, taking a risk, living in the now, not following the established rules of the game.

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)

Golden Dawn: A foolish person in the material affairs of everyday life in which folly, stupidity, instability, and eccentricity occur due to the Fools high level of idealism.

When The Fool is upright 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 upright card reading for The Fool using cards from the Golden 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: From Italy, the tarot deck traveled to France where it found safe haven in the city of Marseille, a major center for the production of tarot decks in the following centuries. In Italy this deck was originally called the carte da trionfi, that is, the trump or ‘triumph cards’a reference to the allegorical cards numbered I to XXI (with or without the inclusion of the Fool.)Historian Gertrude Moakley noted that the fifteenth-century tarot deck painted by Bonifacio Bembo followed the pattern of ancient Roman triumphal marches (trionfi) celebrated in Petrarchs famous fourteenth-century poem ‘I Trionfi.’ Images of triumphal marches can still be seen on the triumphal arches of the Forum in Rome.

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Complete Book of Tarot: Golden Dawn: Courage, ambition, fighting, war (attributes of the planet Mars); when accompanied by stressful cards, destruction, ruin, danger, defeat.

Complete Book of Tarot: Pages, portrayed as standing rather than sitting on thrones or in vehicles or riding horses, have no zodiacal attribution. They represent the element Earth (final Heh). Pages are novices, youthful and inexperienced students. According to the Golden Dawn, the Pages (Princesses) rule the four quarters of the heavens around the North Pole, above the respective Kerubic signs of the zodiac, and they form the Thrones of the Powers of the four Aces. 45 The earthy Pages exemplify the Jungian function of sensation.

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