Aleister Crowley Thoth Tarot Deck

Fool-Thoth Tarot

In spiritual matters, represents ideas, thoughts, spirituality, that which endeavors to transcend earth. In material matters may show, if ill-dignified, folly, eccentricity, even mania. It represents the original, subtle, sudden impulse coming from a strange and unexpected quarter. (James Wasserman, instructional guide,  8) Aleister Crowley (designer) and Lady Frieda Harris (artist) 1978 Copyright Aleister Crowley […]

Pierpoint Morgan Visconti Sforza Tarocchi Deck

Fool-Visconti

The young man depicted as The Fool stands barefooted; his white stockings are worn through at the feet. The Fool is dressed sparingly in white undergarments and a thin, ragged coat. His right hand holds a club that rests on his right shoulder. Seven feathers protrude through his curly hair. His unshaven face has a […]

Brady Tarot, Emi Brady (artist) and Rachel Pollack (author), tiny brown bird studio, 2020

Beginnings. First steps, especially those taken instinctively, without research or planning. The flow of energy, beyond morality or teachings. A brown-headed cowbird chick inhabits the nest of an indigo bunting. Like the European cuckoo, cowbirds are “brood parasites,” meaning they lay their eggs in the nests of other birds and rely on those bird’s parenting […]

Grail Tarot

An innocent-looking youth dressed in the garb of a simple wanderer follows a road into the distance…On the far side of the chasm a luminous Grail hangs in the air. John Matthews (writer) and Giovanni Caselli (illustrator) St. Martin’s Press 2007 Copyright John Matthews (writer) and Giovanni Caselli (illustrator). Permission pending.

Rota Mundi Tarot

Fool-Rota Mundi

Path 11 connects Kether and Chokmah and is associated with the Fool Tarot card and the Hebrew letter Alef. Daniel E. Loeb Red Feather Mind, Body, Spirit 2021 Copyright Daniel E. Loeb. Permission pending.

Smith-Waite Centennial Tarot Deck

With light step, as if earth and its trammels had little power to restrain him, a young man in gorgeous vestments pauses at the brink of the precipice among the great heights of the world; he surveys the blue distance before him – its expanse of sky rather than the prospect above. Pamela Colman Smith […]

Oswald Wirth Tarot

Le Fou depicts a fallen obselisk with a crocodile lurking nearby. The fool himself is straggly bearded and his features are both heavy and distorted. Oswald Wirth U.S. Games System 1975-2019 Tarot images used with permission of U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Stamford, CT 06902. c. by U.S. Games Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.