Ellis decK - The Fool

Hemera

This is a classic RWS take on the Fool but with the exception that there is a lot of movement in this one. Mountains, stars, galaxies, trees, branches and the wolf looking dog, everything seems to be moving. Even the cliff he is standing on looks like it could fall any minute. It is looks like a windy and cold night somewhere in the north. The movement is all around but the Fool himself looks like he is rooted to where he is standing. He is watching and listening to the sound of the wind and the magical sound of the distant galaxies. Maybe there are some Northern Lights up there,too. The Fool is dreaming and planning his next adventure. He is calm and centered and determined to go. I like this combination of movement and sound vs. quiet contemplation.
His dog (his intuitive side?) is panicking and trying to warn or stop him. Or maybe it is his conservtive side that would want to stay in their own home territory? The Fool and the Wolfdog both have same kind of black-green toothed decorations as collars around their necks and also around the Fools waist. I think it means they are very close indeed, maybe it represents the two sides of his personality.


Some interpretations:
(from the companion book & from the picture)

* be mindful of your next move, look before you leap
* think less, act more (the Fool)
* listen more to your intuition (the Dog)
* naivete, innocence
* beginnings, new projects, pure potential
* letting fresh winds blow old debris away
* curiosity
* courage
* be humble; remember how small you are under those Galaxies! Maybe your everydays worries don´t matter as much as you think..

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“He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and smiling gently, as if they had spent so much time above the world, watching the scrambling and the joy and the pain of the people below them, that they could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust