Talk:The Fool (Tarot card)

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I removed the "Examples" section since it was entirely Original Research which Wikipedia does not allow. I left the "mythopoeteic interpretation" section because that may have come from a reputable source but it seems to be something based on personal interpretation like the "Examples" section. - DNewhall

The interpretation sections of all cards should be rewritten. Intrepretation is always someone 's interpretation, and the text should reflect this fact. One should not write Fool is the one that takes the fateful step into a new world but one should write According to N.N., fool is the one that takes... or There is a consensus among most card readers that fool is the one that takes... Authorities sometimes disagree with each other on card interpretations, and the reader should be told of the status of the interpretation. Attributing interpretations to some authorities without mentioning the authorities by name is simply dishonest.

If one attributes the interpretations to schools of thought such as kabbalistic or mythopoetic, then there should be pages describing those schools (doctrine, prevalence and significant people of the school.) Punainen Nörtti

Why use the illustration from Marseille Tarots and not one that match the description, like Rider-Waite?

I agree with who says the mythopoetic is too personal and subjective, and I think in this case we should better choose the more "universal" aspects of the card and not try to attach that much to the opinions of authorities about interpretation neither the personal comparisons. There are things that are consensus, for example, the fool must never be putten as a repressed person...but a lightfull one...Dont you think it? I´ve written some keywords on the description and mixed the "mythopoetic" with interpretation topic, after turning the mythopoetic more "impersonal" and more as a posible interpretation... not as the obrigatory right one. - Don Leon Cavalero

Yes, consensus interpretation should be given whenever possible, but there are real disagreements that the reader of the articles should be made aware of. For example the standard way to see the devil as an oppressor and a master of lies versus the Crowley interpretation of the devil as a liberating life force. The fool seems to be unproblematic without such contradictory interpretations, though.Punainen Nörtti 18:09, 17 July 2006 (UTC)