The World and the Fool: Order and Chaos

[HelloB]

You can find this thread in my blog too (in german and english language).

The world is a card which indicates the completeness and the order of the things. Everything is at the right place and the confusion is not supported by this card. The World is a powerful and fantastic card but it has a negative site too: sometimes it doesn't leave space for something new, due to the fear of confusion, chaos, lack of preparation and so on.

The fool is the profusion, the control absence. It is a beginning, but it can also be the end: a new element which splits the order!
If the fool comes in your reading, here it is possible to expect on the unexpected event. If the fool comes, it is necessary to go along him because it is an internal shout of something repressed.

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[Michael Sternbach]

Right, after the perfect but lifeless state of The Universe, the Wheel turns on to the original chaos of the fool again, from which a new order will emerge... On the Thoth card the Fool is shown as already jumping into manifestation. Much like Kether is the gate between the unmanifest (En soph aur) and the beginning of manifestation. Or much like virtual particles constantly pop out of and back into the quantum vacuum. Potential that can't wait to manifest itself, without quite getting there yet.

The Book of Thoth says about Trump XXI:

In the card itself there is consequently a glyph of the completion of the Great Work in its highest sense, exactly as the Atu of the Fool symbolizes its beginning. The Fool is the negative issuing into manifestation; the Universe is that manifestation, its purpose accomplished, ready to return. The twenty cards that lie between these two exhibit the Great Work and its agents in various stages. The image of the Universe in this sense is accordingly that of a maiden, the final letter of Tetragrammaton.

 

[HelloB]

Right, after the perfect but lifeless state of The Universe, the Wheel turns on to the original chaos of the fool again, from which a new order will emerge... On the Thoth card the Fool is shown as already jumping into manifestation. Much like Kether is the gate between the unmanifest (En soph aur) and the beginning of manifestation. Or much like virtual particles constantly pop out of and back into the quantum vacuum. Potential that can't wait to manifest itself, without quite getting there yet.

The Book of Thoth says about Trump XXI:

Thank you for answering! I agree with the vision of the Wheel as a mixer of elements with the purpose to combine something new. In other decks too the Fool is shown as already jumping or sometimes simply flying up to the sky. He is the step before the activity of the magician.

 

[Farzon]

It's like boiling substances: the hotter it gets, the faster the molecules will move. Until there is complete chaos... and then a point is reached where they all move so fast that they get into a new order. And so on... like reaching the new plane after The World.

I like your thought about the Fool as new factor disturbing the old order. It's a very provoking thought.

 

[HelloB]

I like your thought about the Fool as new factor disturbing the old order. It's a very provoking thought.

Hallo Farzon! Provoking thought and a provoking Fool! ;D
Probably we could see the Fool as the spark before the fire! we need both: order and chaos to balance our life and experience.