00-The Fool Rider Waite Tarot Meanings

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The Fool: Upright Meanings

  • Beginnings Possibilities
  • Pleasure
  • Thoughtlessness
  • Adventure
  • Opportunity

The Fool: Reversed Meanings

  • Indecision
  • Hesitation
  • Injustice
  • Apathy
  • Bad Choice

It’s helpful to approach the numerology of the tarot as a cycle. Even numbers are often stable and enduring, while odd numbers generally embody various states of change and instability. The tarot is actually cyclical, so each ending also signifies a new beginning. Understanding the numerology of the tarot can provide a helpful window into the reading of the cards. Beyond learning the facts of numerology and the cards themselves, your accuracy in interpreting them will depend on your intuition and/or psychic abilities. With neither, a tarot reading will not mean much or could actually be quite harmful and a lack of empathy would suggest perhaps this is the wrong path to be on.

The Rider Waite Tarot Major Arcana

Major Arcana cards show up when things are happening that pull us towards a certain destiny or path. Many Major Arcana cards in a reading is often a sign that our Spirit Guides and Angels are working behind the scenes to set everything up for us so that we can live the lives we are destined to live. While the Minor Arcana cards focus on the everyday actions and decisions you must face, these Major Arcana cards reveal messages about the bigger picture of your life and its long-term direction. A major arcana card represents an energy that is deep, strong, decisive or long-term. When a major arcana card appears in a reading, you have tapped into a powerful energy in some area of your life. The minor arcana cards do not carry the same weight, but they are still important. They chart the ups and downs of daily life and register changes in feelings and thoughts. These dramas are gripping while they occur, but they pass with time as new concerns take their place.

The Original Rider Waite Tarot Deck is the most popular and widely used tarot card deck in the world, printed from plates that were destroyed during the bombing of London during World War II. Full of symbolism and deeper meanings, Arthur E. Waite, the intellectual father of the Rider Waite deck, commented that ‘the true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.’

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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 Petrarch’s 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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