For another attribution, that was used by the inner members of the Golden dawn, and not really published, we find the fool journeying upwards from physicalness of Malkuth toward a journey home to kether...
We also find the fool at path 31, shin , has the meaning of eating the apple in the Garden of Paradise (very fitting!), Guilt
a tooth are also associated with Shin
I'll explore this card further in the other group
Examining things such as how the Fool is actually a devotee of the Goddess in gher guises as Venus...
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Working with Gray’s system we can see this card is path 31. The marriage of Sandelphon and Rapahael.
Gray mentions in his talkign tarot that the fool could actually be put on any path. Here he places it between the Mercurial Air of Raphael the medicianal physical healing Angel and The Malkuthian Sandelphon. Sandelphon of course is the feet of metatron so to speak.
Gray makes it clear to note: why is Malkuth and sandelphon not “earth” whereas Uriel is earth at position 7, netzach. Well because malkuth, the earth is the combination of all four elements, not merely one.
Some of the earliest sources on Sandalphon refer to him as the prophet Elijah transfigured and elevated to angelic status.[1] Other sources (mainly from the midrashic period) describe him as the “twin brother” of Metatron, whose human origin as Enoch was similar to the human origin of Sandalphon.[2] Whatever his origin, Sandalphon figures prominently in the mystical literary traditions of Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity, notably in the Midrash, Talmud, and Kabbalah.
The name Sandalphon is of uncertain derivation. It is possibly derived from the Greek prefix sym-/syn-, meaning “together”, and adelphos, meaning “brother”; thus approximately meaning “co-brother”, since the modern Greek word for “co-worker”, synadelfos (συνάδελφος
, has these roots. This probably refers to Sandalphon’s relationship to Metatron, though this derivation shows uncertain Semitic influences.[3] Another possibility is it coming from the Greek sandalion, meaning “sandal”; thus meaning “one who wears sandals”.
Sandalphon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Archangel Sandalphon and the Earth - Magical Correspondences
Archangel Raphael and the Planet Mercury - Magical Correspondences
Raphael (Standard Hebrew רָפָאֵל, “It is God who heals”, “God Heals”, “God, Please Heal”, Arabic: رافائيل, Rāfāʾīl) is the name of an archangel of Judaism and Christianity who performs all manner of healing and another one of Islam.
Moving from manifestation into the intellectual scintellation of mercurial energy we get a clear picture. Here we see a distinction as Gray mentions between a fool and an ignoramus.
The Mecurial Hod energy is one of the intellect largely. It is here where we find Thoth and Hermes. It is here where ritual magick is often seen to draw its energy from. The energies of Hod and Malkuth we find in the Toledano Kabbalistic system as representing Animal and vegetable consciousness from yesod to tifferet whereas Malkuth representing all things physically manifest, can be seen as mineral consciousness. It is then the goal of the seeker to move beyond this.
Arguably then the fool card or Grail seeker is clearly moving from a slow mundane consciousness, that of mineral to a place of animals and vegatables. This is stil;l a place of survival, of home and food and land and wife and husband…. but we need our feet on the ground if we are to have our head in the clouds.
Thus by crossing the bridge, the gap over the abyss, which of course seems very much like daat to me… we find the Grail seeker faces the challenge of living in a mineral realm or embracing others, one which involves intellectualisation, which of course is sink or swim…but then isnt intellectualisation always?
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