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Name: The Trickster Numeral: 0 Elemental Trump of: Air Hebrew Letter: Aleph (ox) Tree of Life: The fool on the path between Kether and Chokmah. Concept: The Big Bang, the Universe unfurls from singularity. Description: A grey rabbit reaches into a blue top hat with a red band while a large version of his own hand looms behind him. Golden stars glitter all around. Character: A rabbit pulling himself out of a hat is the image of a great adventure about to begin. This is how the rabbit invents himself. The Universe unfurls about him, light entering the darkness to reveal golden beauty, reminding us of our internal quest to connect with higher plains of consciousness. His hat also appears in the Magician and on the Two of Carrots: Justice. The Trickster is the same rabbit as the Magician, but in this card he is still quite young, his hat is too big for him to wear. There are three versions of identity: the self, the inner self and then how the whole self fits into the world around it. This Trickster has just realised he exists and is about to pull himself out of his hat (self absorption) into the world beyond (society). He has not yet realised where it is he comes from or is going, only where he is right now. Meaning: The querant is about to begin an adventure. It’s the inception of the Universe, the ultimate trick cast by the ultimate trickster. It’s the realisation of existence. I think therefore I am. This card represents the beginning of the ultimate adventure: the one of self discovery. Notes : This card is a version of the Fool in other decks; the Major Arcana is sometimes called the Fool’s Journey. There has been a Fool in just about every card deck imaginable. Sometimes they are youthful blunderers, sometimes quite old bunglers. But anyone will tell you the Fool is smarter than he looks. The Major Arcana is the section of the deck pertaining to the Great Mysteries. The Fool learns their secrets on his journey. The element of Air correlates to the Suit of Carrots primarily ruled by the alchemical ingredient Mercury.
To avoid any confusion about imagined Tarot concepts you might see in comments from other account users, I'll post this here one time and then link to it:
A Brief History and Overview of Tarot (very brief) There are ten Sephiroth and twenty-two letters in the Hebrew alphabet (alephbeth) creating thirty-two paths. There are different versions of the Tree of Life that attempt to map these in the Hasidic Jewish Kabbalah (more detail further down in Explaining the Tree of Life). The first Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn used only two versions of the Tree and modern Western Tarot is described as being based on a version of Christian Kabbalah as handed down from the Golden Dawn model that drew heavily from a document known as the CypherMS. The Cypher was a forgery claiming to be dated back centuries older than its actual creation. The Cypher also included instructions on how to organise and operate an hermetic order. A. E. Waite and Aleister Crowley thought it a crime and a shame that the Golden Dawn would keep the secrets on the Cypher (pertaining to mystic arts) a secret and when scandal threatened to tear the Order apart, Waite then Crowley each designed and published their own decks and various books and documents and offered their secrets to the public. The Rider and Thoth Tarot are the two most famous in Western Tradition. Most decks are variants on these models. There is way more detail to this story than I have time to get into. It's like a soap opera and I know many of the details including Crowley's ridiculous break and enter arrest. It's so entertaining to study the Order's membership back in the day. I recommend A History of the Occult Tarot by Ronald Decker and Michael Dummett which covers some of Tarot's more embarrassing moments.
Explaining the Tree of Life The Tree of Life has ten Sephiroth: Kether, Chockmah, Binah, Chesed, Gevurah, Tipareth, Netzach, Hod, Yesod, Malkuth. Originally, Da'ath was a Sephiroth, but it was lost at the Fall (of Man) and became or was replaced by Malkuth. Da'ath and Malkuth cannot exist while the other does. Da'ath is direct communication with the Abstract/God and Malkuth is Physical Manifestation/Earthbound Existence. The Tree attempts to explain how creation made in the divine image was cast from Paradise and driven into the World. Crowley sought out a version of the Tree that would pass through the Abyss (the space on the Tree between Chesed and Binah) where Da'ath used to be. But Da'ath is not the eleventh anything. This is a common Western mistake. Da'ath is the lost Sephiroth and rightfully belongs as part of the group of ten Sephiroth. When refering to the paths, the eleventh path is actually Aleph as shown on this card, The Trickster (originally The Trivial Performer, commonly The Fool). Beth (the Magician) would be the twelfth path, Gimel (the Empress) the thirteenth and so on, so forth. There are thirty-two paths (ten Sephiroth+twenty-two letters in the alephbeth). The Major Arcana represent the paths linking Sephiroth together and are best considered as teachers or gate keepers along the paths of life. You must prove worthy of a gate keeper in order to proceed and deliver the light of the world (enlightenment or experience). You can think of the Major Arcana as life lessons or experiences, great mysteries. There are four suits of cards because there are four Trees of Life, one for each Face of God (Yod, He, Vau, He). Yod is for Atziluth, Fire/Creativity/Career/Cooperation. He for Briah, Water/Emotion/Community/Institution. Vau for Yetzirah, Air/Thought/School/Legal. The final He for Assiah, Earth/Manifestation/Family/Security. You can think of the Minor Arcana as matters of day to day existence, little mysteries.
The Court Cards are tied to personality and are based heavily on Astrology. Not only that but Waite and Crowley have different allocations for these sixteen cards and I just don't think I can get into it without becoming very confusing. I think this is enough for now.
