About the Card
English Name(s)
Folly or The Fool
Correspondences
- Grand Etteilla: Card Number 78
- Tarot de Marseille: Le Mat
Image Description
The Fool marches, blowing on a horn and playing a red drum strapped to his torso. The air around him is filled with red flourishes. He wears a turban with seven fluffy feathers and a red, green, and blue diamond-patterned mask that covers his face and neck. His outfit is covered in patches of various colors and shapes, including diamonds, leaves, crescent moons, hearts, and apples. He also has leafy trim around his shoulders and waist. He wears socks of the same pattern as his mask and blue slipped with curled toes.
Meanings
Upright
Madness, insanity, insane, eccentricity, enthusiasm, unreasonableness, blindness, ignorance, senseless, confusion, wandering, drunkenness, delirium, fever, frenzy, rage, passion, fury, transport, innocent, simple, silly.
Reversed
Imbecility, ineptitude, insouciance, stupidity, imprudence, negligence, absence, absent-mindedness, apathy, nullity, empty, nothing, useless.