The Fool in the Maninni I deck was done by Alexandra Genetti, the creator of The Wheel of Change Tarot. The card was rendered in collage and colored pencil.

Description of the cards imagery:

From a dense black background, the stars of the Milky Way, tucked neatly in a spiral, come forward. Two thin-lined grids come out of the center of the card, expanding out and past the rainbow-hued border around the card. Jutting out from the arms of the Milky Way is the Earth early in her history, when the continents were closer together. The Earth, too, is rainbow-hued. From behind the Earth comes a green arc with the words "Pliocene" and "Pleistoc" visible. Midway through the arc are the bones and skull of a humanoid, the heavy eyebrow ridge distinct. The green arc links the Earth to a concentric map of the solar system and the nearby heavens, a map in which the Earth is the center of the system, the planets and stars in neat orbits around her. This map, too, is rendered in the colors of the spectrum. In the foreground, a bearded Neanderthal runs from right to left, holding what looks to be a lily in his hand. A red and yellow and orange butterfly flies just above and ahead of him. Across the bottom of the card are the words "The Fool", and there are precious jewels scattered among the letters.

My interpretation:

When I work with this card, I am reminded to look beyond the "human" and look to the entire universe, recalling what little I know of its history. The "Fool" is not a human attribute, it is an archetype that expresses itself through us at its will. The Fool is something from beyond even the Big Bang. How would it have expressed itself then, and in all the time between then and rise of the self-conscious homo sapiens sapiens? What was the Fool in the time of the Neanderthal?

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