Fantasy World Tarot: The Fool

The " Fool " card can be considered either the zeroth card or the twenty-second card. The primary meaning of this card is related to trying new things.
This card is associated with lightheartedness, ease, the initiation of some action, and primal energy. Just like a fool or a madman, this card should be interpreted as an action that begins without much thought.

This card therefore refers to a certain lightness and innocence, to a powerful enthusiasm, but also to a certain instability that can turn into betrayal and perhaps even delirium.
In fact, if the "Fool" card appears reversed in the reading, it should be read as madness, folly, negligence, incompetence, apathy, escape.

Generally in readings, it indicates too much enthusiasm, which can be a source of success if accompanied by positive cards, or which will lead to failure if “weakened” by negative cards.

The zodiac sign of reference for this card is Aries, which shares many aspects of the character of "The Fool": the first sign of the horoscope is in fact the sign of the beginning of the cycle, of the primordial force that pushes forward and which can be a little reckless and reckless.
Just like Aries in the horoscope, the Fool also begins the entire Tarot journey: a long road full of surprises.

The “Fool” card is often associated with the unconscious, but not with the static part of this psychological component, but rather with that part of the unconscious that we might define as dynamic.

The Fool of the Fantasy World Tarot

The most characteristic card of the Tarot, that of "The Fool" which gives meaning to the whole deck was designed by Vera Petruk drawing on a very colorful and interesting imaginative imagery.
A sort of Joker/Joker/Juggler with a 4-pointed hat, sitting on a cushion with his legs crossed, is performing a skillful trick with Tarot cards.

The deck, card by card, is in fact passing from one hand to the other making them fly above the juggler's head in a feat of extreme skill.
The background of the scene is made up of a geometric motif that almost seems to recall stairs that at certain points transform into gears or vortices.

On the floor are a vase with flowers, a lit candle, a hat with coins, an apple, and a pillow from which a beautiful cat smiles at us.
The central figure of the card, the acrobat himself, has a shrewd expression, intent on performing his skillful act. Nothing seems to disturb his confidence.
The costume he wears is that of a jester, featuring bright color combinations, puffed sleeves, and the aforementioned four-pointed hat.

In this splendid representation, the Fool, as per the canon, is alone and the Tarot cards scrolling above his head probably represent the many choices that lie ahead for those who begin something.
It is evident in fact that in this figure, captured in the act, while doing something, the original symbolism has been maintained, linked, as mentioned, to action, to the primordial impulse that gives rise to all the other Arcana.