Il Matto

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Il significato principale di Il Matto è Partire per un viaggio sconosciuto. Al dritto, solitamente indica Nuovi inizi, innocenza, spontaneità, spirito libero. Simboleggia l'ingresso in u; rovesciata, potrebbe suggerire Incoscienza, avventura spericolata, decisioni sbagliate, esitazione. Può indicar.

Immagini della carta

Un giovane viaggiatore in abiti colorati si trova sul bordo di una scogliera, guardando il cielo, mentre un piccolo cane bianco salta con gioia ai suoi piedi. Tiene una rosa bianca (purezza) nella mano sinistra e porta un piccolo zaino (esperienza) sulla spalla destra. Dietro di lui si estendono la luce del sole dorata e le montagne innevate.

Significato al dritto

Nuovi inizi, innocenza, spontaneità, spirito libero. Simboleggia l'ingresso in un viaggio sconosciuto, pieno di potenziale ma non privo di rischi.

Significato invertito

Incoscienza, avventura spericolata, decisioni sbagliate, esitazione. Può indicare il caos causato da una mancanza di pianificazione o dalla troppa paura per fare il primo passo.

Amore, carriera, denaro e crescita

Amore

Innamorato, Il Matto indica Partire per un viaggio sconosciuto. Rileggilo confrontandolo con il modo in cui si comporta effettivamente la relazione e con ciò che scegliete entrambi.

Carriera

In materia di carriera, Il Matto indica Partire per un viaggio sconosciuto. Inizia individuando quali risorse controlli e quale sarà la tua prossima mossa.

Soldi

In materia di soldi, Il Matto indica Partire per un viaggio sconosciuto. Non considerare una lettura simbolica come una conclusione di investimento: segui i fatti, il budget e la tua tolleranza al rischio.

Crescita personale

Per la crescita personale, Il Matto indica Partire per un viaggio sconosciuto. Annota la domanda che solleva, quindi trasformala in un'azione che puoi effettivamente verificare.

Sì o no

Diritto

Sì

Rovesciata

No

Questa è la nostra lettura veloce, basata sulla direzione in cui tende il significato della carta. Le tradizioni non sono d'accordo sulle singole carte, e un "Forse" deve essere valutato rispetto alla posizione nello spread e alla situazione reale piuttosto che essere preso come una risposta di una sola parola.

Testo originale di Waite (1911)

Simbolismo interiore (originale)

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.

Significato originale al dritto

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

Significato originale invertito

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

Citato da A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), illustrato da Pamela Colman Smith. Il testo è di pubblico dominio.

Origini del mito e dei simboli

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.

Fonte 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.

Fonte 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.

Fonte 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.

Fonte 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

Scritto da BESTAROT, non citato da fonti storiche. Ogni affermazione è contrassegnata da quanto bene è dimostrata; gli strati interpretativi moderni sono utili per la lettura, ma non costituiscono l’origine storica della carta.

Studia il tema: Mito e origini dei simboli (Accademia capitolo 6)