The Fool Tarot Year Card

A year of The Fool

The Fool holds a year of beginning again with empty hands. It suits leaps, travel, new paths and saying yes before you have every answer. Under this method it appears as 22, after The World, as the start of a new round.

What the year asks

It asks you to trust the step even when you cannot see the ground. The shadow is recklessness, mistaking avoiding responsibility for freedom.

Sitting with it

Notice where you hold back for fear of looking foolish. Take one step this year you can't fully plan.

Questions for the year

• What would I try if I didn't need to know how it ends?
• Where is caution keeping me from living?
• What am I ready to leave behind?

Who has The Fool as a year card

Under Greer's method The Fool is nobody's year card between 2000 and 2099. It last fell in 1991.

The card itself

The step taken before the path exists.

If it is also your birth card

The Fool is also a birth card for some people. In the year it comes round as your year card, the theme you were born with is the one the year brings up.

Birth cards that include The Fool

• The Fool and The Emperor · 22 · 4

Every year card

• The Magician · 1
• The High Priestess · 2
• The Empress · 3
• The Emperor · 4
• The Hierophant · 5
• The Lovers · 6
• The Chariot · 7
• Strength · 8
• The Hermit · 9
• Wheel of Fortune · 10
• Justice · 11
• The Hanged Man · 12
• Death · 13
• Temperance · 14
• The Devil · 15
• The Tower · 16
• The Star · 17
• The Moon · 18
• The Sun · 19
• Judgement · 20
• The World · 21
• The Fool · 22

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