The Fool stood in the tilled earth among the body parts being sowed by the Nameless One. He looked out into the distance and saw a stone church sitting at the edge of the field. The Fool decided to make his way over. The soil on the way was deep. His feet sunk into the […]
In the tiled room at the feet of the Priestess, the Fool became anxious. He knew he was at the beginning of a long arduous journey. The room was vast and infinite and full of mystery. The black and white tiles spread out to the horizon line. He decided that it was time to get […]
Strength led the Fool back to the inside of the spit that curled out into the open ocean like a long thin finger. They clambered over the piles of driftwood that littered the middle of the sand bar towards the estuary on the other side. A steady rain fell, making the wood slippery. The weather […]
Here are the Pentacles. The Two of Pentacles also reveals my name for the deck, the Infinite Fool. I chose the name because it sounds like the David Foster Wallace novel, Infinite Jest, but it also captures the cyclical nature of the Fool’s journey. I also used the cherries as my symbol for this card […]
Standing in the rough sea was a King. He held in his hand a silver cup and in his other hand a Talmud. The waves lapped at him, but he didn’t seem to mind the crashing surf. He was the master of his watery domain. The Fool was on a small boat that rocked violently […]
The Fool arrived at the feet of a Queen in a bricked room covered in hieroglyphics. Clad in a fine tunic, she wore a golden crown that had the head of an eagle swooping out from the brow. She was beautiful and she wore heavy make-up. She held a gold cup, and the Fool saw […]
Even though time and space don’t matter in this world, the Fool ran into the Knight of Cups somewhere and sometime. A man on a horse came riding over the moors at a confident trot. As the rider got closer, the Fool saw that he was a knight in armor, complete with a helmet and […]
Even though time and space don’t matter in this world, the Fool ran into the Page of Cups somewhere and sometime. The Page was standing in a garden and walking among the fully bloomed flowers that were everywhere. He was a dashing fellow, in a jacket with a chalice symbol sewed onto it, and he […]
After Baron Samedi banished the Fool from the church, a vision appeared to the Fool: ten cups floating up, each dripping water into the next. The sound of the water falling was loud. Sunflower and lotus flowers were attached to some of the cups and helped guide the water down the line. The vision made […]