Although The Fool’s symbolism is complex and the journey to attain its awareness seems long, it represents simplicity in its purest form. Being The Fool offers you a glimpse into what it means to be beyond doubt and beyond polarity. The Fool is awareness in its pure, childlike, unconditional form. It is not the end of your journey, however. As The Fool, you will take what you have learned and fall back down from the mountain peak you have attained into the womb of The World, where you will embody, test, and perfect your new experiences. Where you will continue the journey of your ever-evolving soul.

As the first and last cards of the major arcana, The World and The Fool have a shared message. They both offer an invitation to accept the mystery of who, what, and where you are unconditionally, without unnecessary story, and with peaceful joy. They both speak of the zero point - your internal connection to the unspeakable mystery of existence. They are unified like the head and tail of the ouroboros - the serpent biting its own tail.

The World begins a cycle of spiritual growth whose first peak will be upon attaining The Wheel of Fortune. The Wheel of Fortune card represents the initial awakening from your lower nature into an awareness of the wisdom of your soul. In The World, the four cherubs, (representing the four elements of earth, air, water, and fire) are only partially visible (only their heads are showing) indicating the dawning of self awareness. In The Wheel of Fortune, the four cherubs are seen again, but this time, they are fully revealed and studying open books representing your comprehension and integration of the four elements.

The cards preceding The Wheel of Fortune represent the wisdom that you need to collect in order to unveil your power and integrate the four elements of earth, air, water, and fire. These eight cards between Judgement and The Wheel of Fortune, form four pairs and the final card before the Wheel of Fortune, Justice, represents the transition to higher consciousness.

The final time that the four elements are plainly represented in a card is in The Magician (The Magician resides over an altar of the four elements). In The Magician, the symbolism indicates that you have awakened to the full glory of your soul and have mastered the elements as well as integrated the masculine and feminine within you. This integration is seen in the red roses (the feminine) intertwined with the white lilies (the masculine) representing the sacred marriage.

At this time, it is not important for you to fully grasp the nuance and detail of the spiritual journey through the Tarot trumps. Each chapter will give you a deep dive into the meaning of the card and the means of unlocking and integrating its energy. What is most important at this time is to understand the overall journey and how you will move from The World to The Wheel of Fortune, followed by The Magician and finally, to The Fool.

In The World, you gain a clear understanding of your present circumstances, the challenges you face, and the means of overcoming them. In The Wheel of Fortune, you gain enough mastery over the symbolic four elements to regularly and consistently gain inspiration from your soul. In The Magician, you have not only gained full mastery over the elements, but also brought together the polarities within you into harmony. Finally, when you have become The Fool, you will experience the single point of consciousness that is your Divine Self.

When this initial journey is complete, The Fool will take her leap of faith off the cliff and bring all she has learned back into manifestation - returning to The World. The Magician and The Fool, as mentioned, are not meant to be permanent states of awareness. In those states you will gain inspiration and spectacular visions of truth. But staying there is not practical unless you plan to live your life as an ascetic in a cave or monastery, completely separated from society and the daily experiences of living and relating.

In a similar vein, remaining in The High Priestess state of consciousness also makes living a ‘regular’ life very difficult. It is an appropriate state to enter into when you want to offer spiritual teachings or healing to others, but it is not one that you will remain in during your daily life. As a person living a life immersed in society, culture, and relationship, the best state of mind to aspire to live in is that of The Wheel of Fortune. It is a state where you are not completely entrapped in physicality (as in the World) but also not completely transcendent of it (as in The Fool).

In the Wheel of Fortune, you are aware of the wisdom of your soul coming through the clouds and can live a life within duality, culture, and society guided by that wisdom. In the Wheel of Fortune state of consciousness you have the freedom to dive deep into the daily experiences of your human nature’s passions and its ability to enjoy life and its pleasures, knowing that you will not get lost in them. You also have the ability to enter into transcendent states in meditation where you gain more and more understanding of your own spirit and the cosmos, should you choose to. It is the perfect balance between The World and The Fool. As Dion Fortune puts it, “Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.” And making magick, means, making freedom.

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