Mythic Tarot Major Arcana Flashcards
What number is the Fool card?
0
0 is the number of which Major Arcana card?
The Fool
What does the 0 number stand for in the Major Arcana
0 = Egg, the absolute beginning
What Major Arcana card stands for an Egg and a Total Beginning? Give Card Name and Number
Fool and 0
Who is the Main Character of the Fool card?
Wild Youth
Wild Youth is the main character of which Major Arcana card?
Fool - 0
What does the main character, Wild Youth, look like?
Wild young boy, with goat-like “kid” horns, dressed in animal skins, wearing a crown made of vines, bare footed
What is the main character, Wild Youth, doing on the Fool card?
He has come out of his cave, to look at the blue sky of dawn and dance on the cliff edge.
What does the landscape of the Fool card look like?
Rocky, mountainous, and barren. Mountain cliff with a cave and a barren branch. The sky is blue.
What Major Arcana card has a landscape of a mountainous barren area with a mountain cliff, a cave, and a barren branch.
Fool 0
What symbols does the Fool card, 0, contain?
Eagle, Animal Skins, Goat Horns, Cliff, Barren Mountains, Cave.
What does the Eagle symbolize in the Fool, 0, card?
Zeus’s Eagle… God’s watcher.
What do the Animal Skins and the Goat Horns symbolize in the Fool, 0, card?
Young Animal, Driven by “Animal” Instinct (not yet conscious or possessing understanding), Mysterious Impulses, Irrational, Risks of Youth.
What does the Cliff symbolize in the Fool, 0?
Threshold into the unknown, of a journey that may be creative or destructive but is impulsive and instinctive.
What does the Cave symbolize in the Fool, 0, card?
Leaving the womb to stand on his own. The past. Dark from which the beginning of individuality will develop.
What does the Cave say about the Fool, 0, Card?
A voice might say to stay where you are, but the Fool calls for you to do something different.
What does the the Dancing on the Cliff Edge symbolize in the Fool, 0, card?
Being carefree like a child, risks of youth, fearlessness of youth. Trust life’s goodness.
What is the Fool, 0, card calling you to do?
Follow your impulse to change, especially if it is out of the blue. Don’t plan just follow your instincts. Even if it seems illogical.
What does the Blue Sky symbolize in the Fool, 0, card?
Out of the blue impulses.
What do the Barren Mountains symbolize in the Fool, 0, card?
Barren, “nothingness” before something starts.
What is the Risk that the Fool, 0, card calls for?
Willingness to jump into the unknown.
What does the Fool, 0, card NOT promise?
There is no guarantee that the “jump” will be positive… Or that he will arrive from his new journey safely or at all.
What if we don’t follow the Fool’s advise, from time to time?
Life becomes drab and meaningless. We wonder what have we missed and why life feels so empty.
Questions to ask, when the Fool, 0, card comes up?
Does this card bring you feelings of adventure and excitement or fear and dread?
When in the Fool’s position, do you take the plunge or hold back and cling to the cliff?
