{"id":665,"date":"2009-05-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/californiapsychics.us\/2009\/05\/choosing-your-tarot-deck-and-the-fool-card.html"},"modified":"2010-09-02T18:03:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T01:03:45","slug":"choosing-your-tarot-deck-and-the-fool-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.californiapsychics.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/choosing-your-tarot-deck-and-the-fool-card.html","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Your Tarot Deck and The Fool Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think many of us have heard something spooky and mystical\u00a0regarding Tarot cards.\u00a0 “Never use <\/span>someone else’s deck, never use a\u00a0used deck, never touch another person’s deck, sleep with your deck, wrap a special scarf around your deck …”<\/p>\n

However, when you are ready to choose your deck, it’s about\u00a0what deck really “speaks” to you. The first deck I owned was actually a used deck I purchased from a local metaphysical bookstore.\u00a0The pictures were simple and lovely.\u00a0 I was at a point\u00a0in my life where I felt rejected and holding that used deck made me feel as if we were supposed to go home together.<\/p>\n

It’s been almost 20 years since that day.\u00a0I still consult that deck from time to time because it’s always right. I have noticed that it’s developed a rather sage-like attitude and becomes stiff and won’t shuffle for certain questions.<\/p>\n

Tarot is divided into two sections: Major and Minor Arcana. The\u00a0Major Arcana\u00a0starts with\u00a0The Fool which has no number.\u00a0“The\u00a0Fool” represents new beginnings.\u00a0To grasp the full meaning of\u00a0“The Fool” we must examine our own card. Most representations of this\u00a0card are of a Jester or Joker walking joyfully over a cliff. In my deck he is\u00a0following a butterfly, carrying a bindle with all his possessions, being\u00a0trailed by a dog and leaving behind a May pole. The journey he is about to take will carry him into the unknown, but if I look much more closely there is a river beneath him with trees, valleys, and villages.\u00a0 New things left to\u00a0be seen and uncovered.\u00a0If this card appears inverted (upside down) it\u00a0represents folly, mistakes, impulse, intoxication, ignorance and\u00a0recklessness.\u00a0However, if you look at the picture inverted it\u00a0may\u00a0show you that this person is about to have his world turned willy nilly.\u00a0Plus, remember, The Fool has no number. This may signify\u00a0that beginnings can occur at ANY time.\u00a0There is no set pattern. We’d like to believe our lives have order,\u00a0yet the joke is on us at times.<\/p>\n

One of my favorite times The Fool has\u00a0visited a reading\u00a0was for a girl\u00a0trying to\u00a0locate\u00a0a guy she liked. She’d been calling him and he wasn’t answering.\u00a0I laid the cards out and in the portion of the spread that represented “current things,” or what I like to call “the hot seat,”\u00a0sat The Fool.\u00a0Surrounding The Fool were a lot of cards that had blue in them, also there were several knights and pages. “I think he’s skiing and I\u00a0believe he’s\u00a0with his family because\u00a0there are\u00a0a lot of kids around.”\u00a0Of course there was no immediate satisfaction, but a week or so later she called again and said that he indeed had\u00a0been on a skiing holiday\u00a0with his family and he was learning on\u00a0a kiddie slope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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