Welcome to Tarot for Scholars, a resource that helps you weave the deep wisdom of tarot into your daily life and work. In each post, we offer reflections and prompts for exploring your own inner world and unlocking the unique creative power of your scholarship.
The Fool
About this card
The infinite potential of the present moment. The instinctive decision to take a risk at an opportune time, in defiance of convention. The joy and possibility found in channeling your inner child, whose youthful heart is able to trust in life as an unfolding process. Innocence as a form of wisdom.
Other interpretations
Margy’s cards, clockwise from top left: Radiant Tarot; New Chapter Tarot; Cosmic Slumber Tarot; Shining Tribe Tarot; Elemental Tarot; Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea; Spolia Tarot; Tarot of the Spirit.
Helen’s cards, clockwise from top left: Moon & Stars Tarot; Light Seer’s Tarot; Japaridze Tarot; Canes Arcanae; Star Spinner Tarot; Muse Tarot; Tarot of Mystical Moments; Forest of Enchantment Tarot.
Questions and prompts
Every moment contains potential, and the key to its potential lies in whatever is unknown in that moment. What is the potential available to you right now, in this moment? How can you lean (or leap) in the direction of that potential?
What’s a scholarly risk that feels too big for you to take, even though it could create space for unexpected discoveries or wished-for opportunities? Can you think of a smaller version of the same risk that you could take to build up your courage muscle?
What could you do differently in your scholarly work to help your inner child feel engaged in the work, delighted by it, or proud of you?
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Yours in scholarship,
HELEN SWORD is a poet, scholar, award-winning teacher, and founder of the WriteSPACE, an international writing community with members in 30+ countries. Her research-based books, articles, and online tools empower scholarly writers to write more clearly, confidently, prolifically, and with greater pleasure.
Visit Helen’s website here.
MARGY THOMAS is the creator of ScholarShape, a body of work dedicated to elucidating the patterns of Story-Argument across genres, disciplines, and life itself. Through services and DIY resources, Margy helps scholars use Story-Argument patterns to design their work — and to find its deeper meaning and higher purpose.
Visit Margy’s website here.
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