Dryope
Very interesting to read this thread!
I've started writing some things down about every card in the Thoth deck (hoping to gain a better understanding of the cards), starting offcourse with the fool so reading this thread really comes in helpfull, reading about the different ideas/interpretations about the symbolism of this card really get's my 'thinking process' going
My thoughts about the idea that the fool may be falling is that I don't think he is... he is in a vacuum, there is no above or below, that's why in my opinion he couldn't be falling and that's probably also why he is depictured in such an unusual position... although on the other hand it could also be that he is falling; he just entered the atmosphere of the earth, leaving the vacuum of space behind, maybe that's what crowley means when he writes; "He is shown against the background of air, dawning from space, and his attitude is that of one bursting unexpectedly upon the world"... that's probably it (!) because it is offcourse very symbolic for the transformation of the fool from the negative to the positive / antimatter into matter ... this ia a good example off what I meant when I wrote earlier that this thread gets my thinking proces going lol
negative <->positive
antimatter <-> matter
creation <-> destruction
male <-> female
innocence <-> divinity
These all exist at the same time in the fool I guess...
I've started writing some things down about every card in the Thoth deck (hoping to gain a better understanding of the cards), starting offcourse with the fool so reading this thread really comes in helpfull, reading about the different ideas/interpretations about the symbolism of this card really get's my 'thinking process' going
My thoughts about the idea that the fool may be falling is that I don't think he is... he is in a vacuum, there is no above or below, that's why in my opinion he couldn't be falling and that's probably also why he is depictured in such an unusual position... although on the other hand it could also be that he is falling; he just entered the atmosphere of the earth, leaving the vacuum of space behind, maybe that's what crowley means when he writes; "He is shown against the background of air, dawning from space, and his attitude is that of one bursting unexpectedly upon the world"... that's probably it (!) because it is offcourse very symbolic for the transformation of the fool from the negative to the positive / antimatter into matter ... this ia a good example off what I meant when I wrote earlier that this thread gets my thinking proces going lol
negative <->positive
antimatter <-> matter
creation <-> destruction
male <-> female
innocence <-> divinity
These all exist at the same time in the fool I guess...