Tarot Card Meaning: The Fool

The Fool in a Tarot Card Reading

The Fool tarot card represents the element of Air. It is the first and last card of the Major Arcana Tarot series, and doesn’t represent any astrological signs. The fool is sometimes associated with the planet Uranus, a plant that rules invention, and revolution. The Fool fits that description, of someone embracing a new path, out of the town’s limits.

This explosion of curiosity and growth, can many times be similar to the spirits of the signs Uranus rules like Aquarius. That is the magic of Tarot and Astrology - even when two concepts are not connected by first degree, they may still be associated by second degree. Much like people and relationships.

So, even though the Fool is not the Aquarius Card, as the tarot card for Aquarius is The Star, it can still be associated with Aquarius, as it has aquarian traits, simply because Aquarius is ruled by Uranus, and Uranus is the Planet associated with the Fool card.

The fool heads off to his unknown journey, leaving all behind him. He doesn’t care what others think of him (oh, how aquarian indeed) as he knows people always have something to say. When The fool card comes up in a reading it calls whoever is on the spot to go on an adventure, leaving our routine behind and treading our own way in the world. To know that as long as we express ourselves, providence will be there for us.

The fool is associated with the number zero in numerology, because it is that magical point of birth and death. The end and the beginning. It is a reminder to lighten up, worry less, and be hopeful.