To paraphrase Crowley:
“The arrangement of the Tarot cards is not arbitrary, but necessitated by the structure of the universe, and in particular of the Solar System” - so just what does
The Photographic Card Deck of the Solar System have to say about the Fool?
The card I drew was
Enceladus - do an image search for
enceladus tiger stripes and you’ll see a small moon covered in gleaming ice, it’s the whitest, shiniest body in the whole Solar System, and displaying a number of so called “tiger” stripes generally described as mint-green. The ice along the stripes is thought to be very young, having a crystalline structure that would degrade in that environment, turning into amorphous ice in a period somewhere between a few decades and a thousand years. These are not just surface markings though, but geysers throwing out ice crystals at over 2,000 km/hour, suggesting sources of hot, pressurised water beneath the ice. Organic molecules have also been detected so it’s a possibility that life exists down there as around the volcanic vents on our ocean floors. As the card says, “
Enceladus, to everyone’s amazement, is alive and kicking”. The ice from these plumes is also what forms Saturn’s widest and outermost “E” ring, which is unstable with a 10,000 - 1,000,000 lifespan and therefore needs to be steadily refreshed by new particles from Enceladus.
Looking at the Tarot card the corresponding things I notice are a tiger with stripes, ice crystal, fire, green, circling rings.
Going on to draw a card from
The Photographic Card Deck of the Elements produced
Tantalum. An image search for
tantalum just produces images of a silvery metal. The card says it’s used in capacitors for cell phones and laptops, and also for skull plate medical implants.Possibly a link then to brain damage and therefore lack of thought, but I also see Tantalum was named after Tantalus, so do an image search for
tantalus greek mythology instead and what do you see? The tortured person reaching out for the unattainable fruit - which looks suspiciously like that bunch of grapes on the Tarot card. Maybe this is a little joke of the cards, or just the nearest they could get.
Altogether then we have brightness, freshness, youth, life, the power of nature, replenishment, amazement, the possibility of life where it wasn't expected, lack of thought, the desire to attain something out of reach - anyone else see any additional connections here?