El tonto

respuesta rapida

El significado principal de El tonto es Emprender un viaje desconocido. Del derecho, suele apuntar a Nuevos comienzos, inocencia, espontaneidad, espíritu libre. Simboliza emprender ; invertida, puede sugerir Imprudencia, aventura imprudente, malas decisiones, vacilaciones. Puede indicar .

Imágenes de tarjetas

Un joven viajero vestido con ropas coloridas se encuentra al borde de un acantilado, mirando al cielo, mientras un pequeño perro blanco salta alegremente a sus pies. Sostiene una rosa blanca (pureza) en su mano izquierda y lleva una pequeña mochila (experiencia) sobre su hombro derecho. Detrás de él se extiende la dorada luz del sol y las montañas cubiertas de nieve.

Significado del derecho

Nuevos comienzos, inocencia, espontaneidad, espíritu libre. Simboliza emprender un viaje desconocido, lleno de potencial pero no exento de riesgos.

Significado invertido

Imprudencia, aventura imprudente, malas decisiones, vacilaciones. Puede indicar un caos causado por una falta de planificación o por tener demasiado miedo para dar el primer paso.

Amor, carrera, dinero y crecimiento

amor

Enamorado, El tonto señala a Emprender un viaje desconocido. Vuelve a leerlo teniendo en cuenta cómo se comporta realmente la relación y lo que ambos están eligiendo.

carrera

En cuestiones profesionales, El tonto apunta a Emprender un viaje desconocido. Empiece por determinar qué recursos controla y cuál será su próximo paso.

dinero

En cuestiones de dinero, El tonto apunta a Emprender un viaje desconocido. No trates una lectura simbólica como una conclusión de inversión; guíate por los hechos, el presupuesto y tu propia tolerancia al riesgo.

Crecimiento personal

Para el crecimiento personal, El tonto apunta a Emprender un viaje desconocido. Escribe la pregunta que plantea y luego conviértela en una acción que realmente puedas comprobar.

Si o No

Derecho

si

Invertido

No

Esta es nuestra propia lectura rápida, basada en la dirección en la que se inclina el significado de la carta. Las tradiciones no están de acuerdo con respecto a las cartas individuales, y un "Quizás" debe sopesarse con la posición en la distribución y su situación real en lugar de tomarse como una respuesta de una sola palabra.

Texto original de Waite (1911)

Simbolismo interior (original)

With light step, as if earth and its trammels had little power to restrain him, a young man in gorgeous vestments pauses at the brink of a precipice among the great heights of the world; he surveys the blue distance before him—its expanse of sky rather than the prospect below. His act of eager walking is still indicated, though he is stationary at the given moment; his dog is still bounding. The edge which opens on the depth has no terror; it is as if angels were waiting to uphold him, if it came about that he leaped from the height. His countenance is full of intelligence and expectant dream. He has a rose in one hand and in the other a costly wand, from which depends over his right shoulder a wallet curiously embroidered. He is a prince of the other world on his travels through this one—all amidst the morning glory, in the keen air. The sun, which shines behind him, knows whence he came, whither he is going, and how he will return by another path after many days. He is the spirit in search of experience. Many symbols of the Instituted Mysteries are summarized in this card, which reverses, under high warrants, all the confusions that have preceded it.

In his Manual Of Cartomancy, Grand Orient has a curious suggestion of the office of Mystic Fool, as a part of his process in higher divination; but it might call for more than ordinary gifts to put it into operation. We shall see how the card fares according to the common arts of fortune-telling, and it will be an example, to those who can discern, of the fact, otherwise so evident, that the Trumps Major had no place originally in the arts of psychic gambling, when cards are used as the counters and pretexts. Of the circumstances under which this art arose we know, however, very little. The conventional explanations say that the Fool signifies the flesh, the sensitive life, and by a peculiar satire its subsidiary name was at one time the alchemist, as depicting folly at the most insensate stage.

Significado original del derecho

Folly, mania, extravagance, intoxication, delirium, frenzy, bewrayment.

Significado original invertido

Negligence, absence, distribution, carelessness, apathy, nullity, vanity.

Citado de A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), ilustrado por Pamela Colman Smith. El texto es de dominio público.

Orígenes de mitos y símbolos

In the earliest decks he is the madman, standing outside the sequence altogether. The Fool's Journey is a twentieth-century reading.

Documented imagery

Attested by surviving objects or texts

He began as the exception card in a card game

In early Italian decks this card is Il Matto, the madman. It carries no number and does not stand in the triumphal procession — the other trumps are triumph figures ranked by precedence, while the Fool is the exception written into the rules of play, neither taking a trick nor being taken. The figure descends from the medieval court jester and the Feast of Fools: one day in the year on which the fool is permitted to invert rank. That sense of standing outside the order is closer to where this card comes from than any myth is.

Fuente The early Italian card name Il Matto and its unnumbered status; medieval Feast of Fools and jester iconography

Esoteric correspondence

A sourced traditional claim, but constructed inside an occult system

The prince of another world Waite rewrote him into

Waite redrew the madman as a richly dressed youth at the brink of a precipice, and wrote that he is "a prince of the other world on his travels through this one," "the spirit in search of experience"; the drop below holds no terror, "it is as if angels were waiting to uphold him." From street madman to prince of another world is what came of the late-nineteenth-century occult circles recharacterising the whole deck. It is not what the card originally meant.

Fuente Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911, The Fool (compare the original in the source panel on this page)

The element of air and the letter Aleph

The Golden Dawn assigns the Fool to the element of air and the Hebrew letter Aleph. Like the Hanged Man (water) and Judgement (fire), he takes one of the three elemental letters rather than a planet or a sign. The lightness, the not-yet-fixed, not-yet-landed register comes from there.

Fuente Golden Dawn Book T elemental letter attributions

Modern reading

Popular only since the twentieth century; unrelated to where the card came from

The Fool's Journey is a modern teaching device

Reading the twenty-two trumps as the Fool growing from 0 to 21 is a twentieth-century invention, given its settled form mainly by Eden Gray's popular books around 1970; only later did anyone graft it onto Campbell's hero's journey. The Renaissance triumph images are a procession of victors ranked by precedence, not a narrative line — and the Fool is precisely the one card in that procession that is not ranked. The frame teaches extremely well. It was still added afterwards.

Fuente Modern popular reading; the Fool's Journey was popularised by Eden Gray's tarot books (1960s–70s); the hero's journey frame is Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 1949

Escrito por BESTAROT, no citado de fuentes históricas. Cada afirmación se etiqueta según su grado de evidencia; Las capas interpretativas modernas son útiles para la lectura, pero no representan el origen histórico de la carta.

Estudie el tema: Orígenes de mitos y símbolos (capítulo 6 de la Academia)