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Voyager Tarot
- Fool
Text by James Wanless, Ph.D, Artwork
by Ken Knutson, Graphic Design by Louise Risworld
Merrill West Publishing
P.O. Box 1227, Carmel, CA 93921 |
My (intuitive) visual take on this
card:
The Fool-Child from The Voyager tarot
is a visual cacophony of dancing emotions. It is a bright, bold,
colorful collage of pictures and is designed to elicit a swirl of
feelings. There are bright red flowers (red ,the passionate color of
life); a fetus in the womb (waiting to be born, but not just
literally...ideas, journies, decisions, relationships, etc.); toucans;
a child free-falling into space (think back to when you were a child
and didn't have to doing anything in particular to feel the joy of
living and of moving...) There are fireworks and a wise old owl....and
hands, many hands, all reaching up and outward towards the stars,
which say to me...I want more! I want life! I want *my* life as only I
can live it, and I will do what I have to do! I am free to leap and
leap and leap!
Here is what I intuit when I hold
The Fool-Child:
Hope, joy, relief, and courage. The
hope is from being reminded that it is *OK*, in fact, necessary to be
true to one's self, despite all signals to the contrary from others.
That winning or losing isn't the sum total of life, it's the
experience of living that counts. That we can always brush ourselves
up and start again on our fabulous adventure that is ours and ours
alone...which leads to joy that we have what we need to move us on our
journey inside of us at all times, and no one and nothing can take
that away from us **unless we let them*** The risk is worth taking
because the joy of the risk is in making the decision to do so in the
first place. And relief. Relief that we know best for ourselves if we
take the time to learn it; we always have that knowledge, if we choose
to trust it because above all in life, *we must try*. Finally,
courage. Courage to run full tilt off the precipice if it means being
true to ourselves and accept the consequences for doing so, because we
had the courage to do to begin with.
This is my interpretation of this card
sans book. If the book interpretation is needed, I would be happy to
provide that in another post.
Dawn
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