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The FOOL is the wild card and represents the element of chance in a spread. As the beginning trump, he symbolizes the first step in a journey along a major path. You begin as the innocent Fool, ready to plunge into action with the attitude of folly. You find it impossible to see beyond the stimulus of total surprise, dropping into your life from the great nowhere and changing the course of events. The FOOL reflects a spiritual consciousness rather than mere concern with material conditions. This card lends guidance through opportunity which falls into your hands. It indicates a need to leave things to fate, though it seems absurd; allowing coincidence and circumstance to lead to new and spontaneous directions. The FOOL does not view life with great seriousness. practical problems have no place in his cosmology. The FOOL lacks physical roots and does not worry about survival. He also leaves this to fate. the spirituality inherent in this card is without dogma. It speaks instead of deep divine treasures we carry within us, inherited from our human ancestry, which creates our inborn love of the natural world and curiosity about the great metaphysical truths which have fascinated people since the beginning of time. In a card reading, this trump symbolizes constant beginnings, initiating things but not following through, not paying attention to details and lacking seriousness. It heralds the first step in a new phase of life where your head is in the clouds, while a series of surprises come your way. The FOOL wanders the planet, ignorant to the pitfalls of life. he is unaware of disaster and barely acknowledges the dangers of existence. With no notion of self protection, he often finds himself at the edge of a precipice, about to plunge off the surface of the planet. Even if something monumentally heavy happens, he does not consciously acknowledge it. The FOOL merely glances at the drama of life, accepting its face value.
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