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I've seen everyone recently bring up the connection between the tarot card and "The fool", although I believe this reference is true. Theres one I feel like some are missing. Throughout this album and bladee's recent albums he's been using a whole lot of gnostic references. "The Fool" itself is another reference to that. Fool is a translation of the Aramaic name Saklas, which is the second name of the Demiurge. For those who arent caught up on the gnostic imagery, the Demiurge is the creator of the material world or as bladee refers to "trash island".
Would love any thoughts on this, and would also love to be corrected if someone has already posted this.
I know a bunch of you guys have not listened to the album yet due to it not being out in your timezone, but I was wondering if anyone who has listened to it noticed the theme throughout the album as well as the title! I wonder if the album name The Fool relates to the tarot card? I searched it up and copy + pasted what was listed and wondered if this is related to the album or if I'm just being a headass lmfao
"Meaning: The Fool represents new beginnings, having faith in the future, being inexperienced, not knowing what to expect, having beginner's luck, improvisation, and believing in the universe.
Upright card (keywords): Beginnings, Innocence, Leap of faith, Originality, Spontaneity
Reversed card (keywords): Chaos, Folly, Lack of direction, Naivety, Poor judgement, Stupidity"
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So, ever since I started this campaign I associated Molly with the Fool card, even before I saw the Molly shirt. Why? Well, let's look at the description (taken from Google)!
>Depiction: The Fool is usually depicted as a beggar or a vagabond, he wears ragged clothes & stockings without shoes, and carries a stick on his back.
When we met Molly he had his coat and holy symbol, and that was basically it. Also somebody who travels with a circus could definitely be seen as a vagabond.
>Meaning: The Fool represents new beginnings, having faith in the future, being inexperienced, not knowing what to expect, having beginner's luck, improvisation and believing in the universe.
New beginnings for the person that woke up in a grave with no memories and was just making shit up as he went along.
>Upright card: Beginnings, Innocence, Leap of faith, Originality, Spontaneity
Innocence might be a bit of a stretch, but the rest was Molly at his finest.
>Reversed card: Chaos, Folly, Lack of direction, Naivety, Poor judgement, Stupidity
Molly spend his life with no goal but running away from Lucien's past, trying to distract himself so he wouldn't have time to think about his situation and goals clearly. And I don't think the "poor judgement" needs any explanation, even if you ignore Lorenzo.
And now for why I even wrote this post, with this spoiler tag:
>The Fool is one of the 78 cards in a tarot deck. In tarot card reading, it is one of the 22 Major Arcana, sometimes numbered as 0 or XXII.
Molly was the beginning of the campaign, in more ways than one. He was the one that convinced the other to come watch the circus back in Trostenwald, he was the one who insisted they travel together to Rexxentrum for Fjord's goal of going to magic school and he was the one who's death forged them together as a group more tightly than anything else could have. He even gave Yasha a new beginning when he was the first person to find her and get through to her.
But he's also an ending. His death was the first permanent ending the group experienced, his seeming resurrection marked the start of the very last arc of the campaign and his proper resurrection is now the end of the campaign, sans epilogue next week. (And I'm still in shock about how exactly that resurrection happened.)
And for the first time ever I feel at peace with that. Lucien did feel like the BBEG, at least after his speech that ended with absolutely insane laughter, but even tho
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I was talking to someone the other day and this person told me that the Beatles song was inspired by the tarot card, but doing a research about it I could only find some theories and some arguments that are very controversial.
Thinking about the song and about the card it makes sense to me, but I'd like to hear what other people think about it.
Also, since I'm already creating this post I'd like to ask, do you know any other songs related to tarot? I'd like a few recommendations.
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