Key Traits
Upright: Innocence, New Beginnings, Free Spirit
Reversed: Careless, Stale, Caged
The Fool in The Major Arcana story is the beginning of the tale, the first steps on an individual’s path to spiritual and self-actualization. In a reading, it tends to point to the beginning of a new journey where you are free of the binds of what may have once held you back.
The Major Arcana is cyclical, containing 22 cards, with 0 beginning as The Fool and 21 concluding The Major Arcana with The World, before the cycle begins anew. The experience is not unlike that which is laid out in The Monomyth, otherwise known as The Hero’s Journey, a term first coined by Joseph Campbell in his book, Hero...