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The Fool

A traveller with a small bundle and a flower pauses at a precipice. A dog rises beside the traveller, with mountains and the sun beyond.
Enlarge ↗Source scan, PDF p. 166 ↗

What you can see

A traveller with a small bundle and a flower pauses at a precipice. A dog rises beside the traveller, with mountains and the sun beyond.

What Waite says

Waite describes a spirit seeking experience, moving through this world with confidence in its journey. His account gives the Fool a significance distinct from a simple warning against foolish behaviour.

Waite · Part II, §2 · printed pp. 152–155 ↗
Edition and image credits

Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.