Richard said:
One of the things I find so interesting about this card is that it's impossible to look him in eye...he always seems to be looking past you (although I agree that it makes him look rather crazed).
When I look at the Fool's gaze, I'm reminded of eagerness and innocence. Almost like that wide-eyed gaze that your kids give you when they're still young enough to believe everything you say.
Sometimes I feel that when I'm looking at the card, I'm looking into a mirror, looking at myself and not seeing what everyone else sees, but all the possibilities that I have for myself in the future, all my plans, dreams and aspirations.
I had to look really closely at the deck to actually see the human figures entwined....couldn't quite make that out. There are some symbols still that I can't quite make out or understand what they are. And now as I'm thinking about it, with all the symbols and the cord being attached to the Fool, maybe the cord is like a road, a journey that will transform him, and yet, lead him back to the self he was all along? These are just thoughts off the top of my head.
In the Thoth deck his image is that of Greek God Dionysus.
I was really stretching to see that one, it doesn't seem like an image that I would attribute to Dionysus, He's always seemed much more...worldly, lustful, male, than the Fool.