Traveling With the Tarot
the voyage cards
Today is Thursday morning and I leave for Greece, my first international trip since before the pandemic. So that is a long time and it feels momentous. Greece is ten hours later than Seattle. They speak Greek there. It’s going to be really hot. I don’t get anxious about traveling except for getting to the airport on time (a missed flight to London as a child). Chris and I went to New York last April and the lines for TSA were so long we missed our flight and had to take the next one. So there’s that.
A transfer in Montreal. I hear Lufthansa is actually a pretty nice airline, as those things go. I’m bringing my tarot cards and imagine there will be plenty of card reading at the retreat I’m attending, with one of my best friends Maureen, on Paros. Its focus is enneagram and yoga, but tarot fits right in.
https://www.lynnroulo.com/my-offerings/retreats/paros/
The Fool
I am thinking about those cards in the tarot which feel like travel. The first which comes to mind is the Fool, as in The Fool’s Journey, where it all begins, card zero. Christina Dorsini, in her book about the Visconti Sforza Tarot describes The Fool as “a wayfaring wanderer, he symbolizes the search for change, walking towards evolution, joy for life, excess, daydreams.” (p.30) In the Rider Waite Smith deck, The Fool always strikes me as a bit of a risk-taker, perhaps heading off that cliff if his dog doesn’t stop him. I love The Fool. I feel a bit of The Fool right now, beginnings, new cycles, thrills, risks, newness.
I'll be posting over the next couple of weeks, shorter and more often. Next post on Athens and Six of Swords.
Xo Hanna
The Fool in Shakespeare’s King Lear — profound, risk-taking, in speech sometimes half-crazily whimsical and over the edge — and in a play in which climactically an aged man whose eyes have been cruelly put out thinks he falls off a cliff yet finds something else. Joe McElroy