I've started working with the tarot on top of the runes, and while I'm going through it at a much more rapid rate, I would like to add Tarot Tuesdays as a feature for this blog. So if you'll indulge me, the first card I'm dealing with today under the watchful eye of Hecate, is the Fool.The Fool represents creative mania--the biforcated balance of opposing ideas held together under the silent tongue of the prophet, the Bachanalian. It intones the vulture Nekhbet. The dove of immaculate conception. Jesus and Dyonassus. The holy man. The accepted angelic. People like Marx with crazy flowing hair. The horns of Zagreas.
The fool bridges the gap between the great unconcepted and wisdom on the tree of life. Existing between the Crown and Wisdom, the Fool is the jester.
He stands jubilant ushering in spring as the Green man on top of the Nile, where the creative energy of the crocodile Sobek. Between his legs, under his sun, sit the silent intertwined babes of Hoor-pa-kraat.
The fool is the great cosmic glossolalia of the divine strained in through the mundane. It's deception, it's innocence, it's restraint of the highest degree, combined with all the inhibitions of a drunken escaped lunatic. In the fool is the universe and nothing. +1 and -1, the great zero.
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