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The The Fool card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck

The Major Arcana

The Fool

beginnings · a leap of faith · innocence

Upright

Something is starting, and you almost certainly don't have enough information to start it responsibly. The Fool's suggestion is to go anyway. It's the card of the step taken before the plan is finished, and its quiet argument is that some things can only be learned once you're already moving.

Reversed

Reversed, the leap tends to be either avoided or taken carelessly. Perhaps you're waiting for a certainty that isn't coming, or perhaps you're calling recklessness courage. Both are ways of not looking at what the step actually costs.

If this is your card this month

What would you start this month if you didn't need to be sure first?

A card is a prompt rather than a forecast. It doesn't know what will happen, and the useful part is what you do with the question it hands you. We make that case at more length in not a prediction, a mirror.

Where this card came from

If The Fool arrived on a postcard, it was drawn for you for that full moon, and the reflection on the back was written from what it means. And if it didn't, well — that's the other thing we do here: a card and a reflection in your mailbox every full moon.

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