Peekabuddha, Sunshine, Tarot Readings and The Fool!

In Rachel Pollack's book written for the Haindl deck she says, "traditionally the Fool represents the child, the seeker about to journey through life..." all I can say to that is "Nonsense!", Peekabuddha, Sunshine

In Tarot *Traditionally* the Fool is anything but _the child_...

In the occult decks Beginning with Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck, the fool is a naive wanderer. Before the publication of the RWS deck in 1909 the tarot Fool was something else, all together. In the modern decks the Fool has many guises.

With a modicum of Renaissance art and history we can see that the classical deck Fool is based on two much old icons; the _miserso_ living in poverty, the dregs of society. The Peekabuddha and the Tarot, Tarocchi of Mantegna is an example of this icon, homeless and seemingly helpless.

Of course the other icon is the Court Jester, sunshine. The one who entertains by acting the part of the incompetent dunce. Despised because he is fully at the mercy of all the court above him. He is "too dumb to come in out of the rain".

The combining of these two icons gives us a Fool who relates to the world, to nature, to others, in the most primitive of ways: he is a victim. A zero, nothing, zilch, naught. When it snows he is cold, when it rains he is sodden, when the wind blows he is battered, he is often hungry and the dogs nip at his heels, and fight with him for scraps. He is unclean, unkempt, and has not the means to rise above his station.

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