Peekabuddha, Sunshine, Tarot Readings and The Fool Part 2!

OK so on we go with our expedition into the meaning of the Fool, which doesn't have much to do with Peekabuddha, or does it .... I'll let you decide that one!

In the game of tarot the Fool can be played at anytime, in any way, but he is worthless. He is unnumbered and can never win a trick...

Much different than the whistling wander, eh? And much truer to *tradition*.

"The Fool speaks true to power", hardly a declarative statement portraying the role of a child or an innocent.

The trip through life is joyous, it is wonderful and wondrous, but there are as many times when the journey is fearsome, fearful, and anything but wondrous. That is the point at which the journey alters the journeyer in appreciable way, the journeyer has knowledge, peace, and liberation for he has faced the unknown. That instills maturity and familiarity, not childish enthusiasm and naiveté.

Here are some early keywords for the Fool. It is easy to see how they differ from both my personal keywords and from many contemporary tarotists's views, in general. Thus, my argument with Pollack's sweeping statement regarding tradition!

WAITE: Folly, mania, extravagance, intoxication, delirium, frenzy, bewrayment.
Reversed: Negligence, absence, distribution, carelessness, apathy, nullity,
vanity.

MATHERS: Folly, Expiation, Wavering.
Reversed: Hesitation, Instability, Trouble arising therefrom.

ETTEILLA: FOLLY (78 or 0)-Demented, Eccentricity [Extravagance], Insanity,
Aberrations, Intoxication, Delirium, Frenzy, Defective, Rage, Carried Away.-
Enthusiasm.-Blindness, Ignorance.-Crazy, Insane, Irrational, Innocent,
Without Affectation, Simpleton.

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