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The The Fool card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

A young traveller steps toward the edge of a cliff with a white rose in one hand and a small bundle on a stick, a little white dog at their heels.

Upright

  • Beginnings
  • Open road
  • Trust

Traditionally the card of the first step, taken before the ground has been surveyed. It asks what you would begin if you did not require the whole route in advance.

Reversed

  • Hesitation
  • Recklessness
  • Held back

Read reversed, the same energy stalls or spends itself. It raises the question of whether you are standing still out of care or out of fear, and whether the leap in front of you is the one you actually want.

About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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