one card today

 

Decided to draw one card today, kind of a 'how's your now' card, and pulled Le Fou -- the one pictured here is approximately the same as the one I pulled from the Besançon Tarot.

 The Fool is the most interesting card, because he has no place in the sequence. He originally had no number, not even the zero we give him today, because the earliest cards, even if they were numbered, used Roman numerals. There is no zero in ancient Roman arithmetic.

 The homeless and possibly mentally ill vagrant and drifter symbolized by this picture likewise has no place in society, and is shunted by those with places to the very margins.

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