When you first start using Tarot Cards, you need to learn what each card means.  There are many books online that will tell you this, but often you will want to read a variety of different meanings and then meditate on the meanings until the right one for you becomes clear.

In this hub, I want to just deal with the fool and a little on the magician.  Many writers will tell you that the fool is the most important and also the most mysterious card in the pack.  It's also the only card that has survived into the modern pack of cards as the joker.  This is the one card with no personal identity, but can take on the value of any card and doesn't abide by any of the rules that the other have to. 

In Tarot, the Fool is humanity, wandering along a path with little cares to worry about.  He is considered to be a simple person with little money and his wealth is often considered to be his innocence.  His bundle over his shoulder contains all the wonderful gadgets that modern man so loves, yet has little or no need for. 

Others will say that the Fool is a little mad, or crazy.  It is this madness that links him to the divine.  In ancient times the mad were often considered to be closer to divinity because they didn't have to think about the same things that men had to think about.  They were free to only concentrate on those thoughts that the gods would have. 

Alternatively, when the Fool is at the head of the trumps or major arcana and you are reading the progression of a persons life, then the fool will represent the child in the womb, about to fall over the cliff into the world of life.  He is simple, pure and innocent, ignorant of the trials and tribulations that await him.

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