Tarot and the Fool
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- What does the Tarot Fool signify? And what did it signify when the Tarot was created during the Italian Renaissance?
This video examines early examples of the Fool that show that the Fool was in some cases a poor and miserable vagrant, but in other cases the Fool was an allegory for vanity, thoughtless opinion, arrogance, and self-importance. The Fool could also be a popular street entertainer, or jester to a royal court.
The relationship between the Fool, the Hanged Man and the Hermit is explored. There is also some weirdly important stuff about dogs, cats, tigers and leopards.
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Oh snap! Colin is back with us!! So glad to see you drop more content
TY 🙂
I love your videos! I'm new to these whole spiritual, tarot thing and hearing about the history of tarot (without the television nonsense) has been fascinating!
The "powers that be" are blind concept is definitely interesting since it's something that I believe, in a way. Being able to reverse the tarot... it's all cyclical to me, I don't know. The reverse is also true I guess!
TY! You can tell the story in the cards any way you choose :-)
So happy so see you back!! I love these videos.
Thank you!
Please continue, tour videos are wonderful. I have learned so much
Thank you, another in preparation
Mr. Low, yours is a series I haven't been able to stop from the first words you spoke. In an era of foolishness we need your wisdom.
Thank you :-)
@@colinlow1167 Mr Low, I bought your excellent book on the Tarot and look forward to reading your other on the Hermetic Kabbalah. Is there any way for us to contact you? Will you be giving more of these truly brilliant lectures?
@@ktanner438 I'm currently preparing a video on the Hermit, but I'm incredibly busy with other projects atm and unsure when it will be ready.
@@colinlow1167 are there other places we can tune into your projects like books and the like? This is a breath of fresh air, an academic but affectionate look at Western esoterica and I adore everything you do for it
@@ktanner438 I have an old website at www.digital-brilliance.com and I'm working on a newer version at www.digital-brilliance.org. Sadly, I am not prolific, for I devote an enormous quantity of time to researching my output, and I have all the travails of old age to contend with, which I do not in any way recommend. Between migrating the website, working on videos, and writing another book, I am fully extended atm.
I am so glad to hear your videos 💗. I haven’t been so inspired to learn about tarot, as when I was a fresh fool at 15 rushing to the library to borrow a vhs of a new artist how to paint video.💗 thank you.
Thanks :-)
Please make more of these videos. Thank you!
That's great to see you're back! And what a happy coincidence! I've just received your "Playing the Fool" and here is your video about The Fool card!
Thank you, and thank you for buying the book, I hope you enjoy it :-)
You should have thousands of views you are a gem! 💗
Thank you!
Riveting stuff, looking forward to more videos! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you!
Really enjoying your channel and videos as I learn about Tarot…thank you!!
I'm glad you enjoyed it 🙂
I watched your 'History of the Tarot' video a few months back, and was eager to watch more content just like this, so am thankful to come back and find another upload!
There is a definite lack of deep study tarot information on RUclips; sometimes a video is more digestible than a tome of a book, so I for one, am extremely appreciative of that. Thank you Colin! 😀
I'm glad you liked it. There is also a Death video from last year. More to come this year I hope.
@@colinlow1167 Just watched that too - thank you! Looking forward to the next instalment! 💛
Thank you
Thank you for the fascinating look into the development and history of The Fool card. Well done!
As rigorous as your exegesis is, I was surprised to learn your opinion that The World card should come first - as "Creation."
Especially when, from another perspective, the mathematical zero aligned with The Fool card seems to make much more sense for a beginning, as undifferentiated unity (and boundless potential), presaging material existence. It counts well at the end too, going around the wheel, but without 'Awen' the breath of life - again - there would be no field nor an ox to plow it.
One could even say it relates to 'Annwen' as much as the Paean of Pan, the divine orchestration vibrating across the substrate of consciousness.
Thanks again for your fine work. I'd love to see more of your culminations on other cards! Especially The Chariot, The High Priestess, and The Empress. Those are some of my faves 😅
What are your favorite cards - if any?
I'm confused, perhaps I expressed something poorly. Perhaps you could point me to the place in the video? In the card game the Fool tends to be a wildcard, not a Trump. In a few older decks the card is numbered zero, in most the Fool is unnumbered. The idea that the World card might come first dates to Court de Gebelin in the late 18th C, an eccentric theory he outlined in his "Monde Primitif", and perpetuated in the occult interpretation of the cards (especially that of the late 19th C Golden Dawn).
@@colinlow1167 My bad! I see now that I was badly mistaken. At 9:43 you introduced Court de Gebelin and his re-ordering the Trumps backwards. But I failed to see that you meant he'd run the entire series backwards from The World as #1.
I also miss- remembered your comment on "creation," which wasn't even mentioned in this video! Lol, I'm sorry - please forgive my oversight. That bit on creation appears in your other video on the history of the cards - with regard to Court de Gebelin - in which I misunderstood your irony in explaining his 'rather unique' views.
Thank you for pushing me to review your presentation again, it helped see your details accurately!
Your mention of the tiger symbol in the Crowley-Harris "Fool" card has inspired me to crack open his Book of Thoth again.
I'm partial to the tiger, but I still love the idea of an inner guard-dog warning us of unseen perils ahead, or lending support from the Light that guides each of us in our journeys.
But I don't see that as trivial, like it seems in the RWS deck. Whereas, the tiger, under divine agency, is always present and it will never let you go.
In closing, I'd like to say thank you for your work, and I hope to see more in the future. Liked and subbed!
New Colin video just before bed, today is a good day 👌
You are welcome!
love how you explain things in your videos ive learnt a lot from you thank you so much for your time making these videos
I'm glad you enjoyed it :-)
Brilliant!!! Thank you so much!!
Thank you!
Thank you so much. What a treasure of knowledge!❤
Thank you!
Is the radiant lady on your shoulder your spirit guide or angel? 😊 If you’re able, please do the other cards of the Major Arcana. You are a gift, thank you. Blessings.
Just a piece of visual clutter provided by a friend :-) I think her gaze is directed more at the guinea pigs than me.
so happy for the new video!111 Thank you!
I'm glad you like it.
Thank you so much. I have suspected his truly foolish nature for a long time… so interesting to hear the history 🙏
Amazing work and rich in knowledge 🙏🏽
Great video!!!!!!
Thank you!
I've waited & waited 😁
I have more videos planned :-)
You're right, in the Book of Thoth, Mr. Crowley only says that a tiger is there. Lol, but he never says why.
I feel that the tiger is a rare solar-type Leo reference to Bacchus or Dionysus who was historically depicted with two leopards in his entourage of Satyrs and Maenads.
Dionysus, the 'dying and resurrected god' of wine, women, and song, is a solar deity that the mythology of Jesus imitates. Hence, Jesus' first miracle involves transforming water into 'wine' at the 'wedding.'
Dionysus, was sacrificed and resurrected in classical Greek lit, of course sharing Easter legends with ancient Babylon (long before the Septuagint was even translated from the classical Greek into the Hebrew written language; Which, was only still developing at that time with Jewish scribes hiding out in caves.
Although, Judasism won't admit their misappropriation, and human history wants to support them because high-brow society wants to turn a blind eye to any mind altering substances involving the Mystery Rites, or even ancient Rome's chemical romance with pharmaceuticals, or even the mere mention of recreational drug use - to say nothing of the classical Greek history from which their precious savior actually derives, like Dionysus, or Bacchus, or Babylonian Dumuzi and Inanna. But I digress).
Hence the Fool's correlation to the Sun's apparent journey into the Underworld and His return in the Spring.
Even so, it's beautiful how all the cultures of the world have shared in these aeonic dances, triumphs, parades, and processions, with such devotion and passion!
Thank you for your wisdom
I'm glad you find it useful.
Ha Ha Colin…. You made my Day !
Thank you!
Do you plan on making a video about the female pope?
In the fullness of time ... but I don't believe I have much insight to add in this case. There are lots of opinions but none strike me as convincing or compelling.
Good stuff. Thank you.
I am glad you liked it :-)
We can even go far back as Gilgamesh with the lion hugged to his chest.
Or Hercules ... or Samson ...
@@colinlow1167 Indeed! hehehe such a multifaceted character depending on the perspective of the viewer. i wonder if its symbolism unfolds as the mind is cultivated? I cant be too sure though ahaha
@@colinlow1167 Samson is my birth name so trippy lol
Great overview. Thank you for mentioning things often overlooked and presenting what is obviously just a smidgen of your studies in an accessible way.
Originally, the followers of Dionysus were societal outcasts (women, slaves, crippled, etc). Very much a Christ prototype!
Thank you. That is a good point about the followers of Dionysus.
Interesting that the author of this comment lists women as indicative of being socially outcast. Hmmm…
@@kimberlyfour Yes its interesting because the author of this comment has at least a little historical knowledge.
Please note that the author wrote
'societal outcasts' not 'socially outcast'.
When a human being has no political rights whatsoever due to their gender and must live their existence under the control of a father, brother, husband, the patriarchal system, etc - even risks being abandoned at birth simply for being the wrong gender - then yes, in this authors's humble opinion, that constitutes being a type of SOCIETAL outcast.
You are of course entirely free to disagree with the etymology. Cheers.
Like your videos. Be nice if you kept politics out of it , though. We get enough of that shit from every venue possible.
Thanks. As for content, you know the saying, "my house, my rules" :-)
Well your last name is a descriptive of you. Propagandist.
I just finished watching all your videos I really enjoyed them and I learned so much. I hope you keep making videos ❤
Thank you
I hope you like it :-)