0 - The Fool

Titles: The Spirit of the Æther
Hebrew letter: א (Alef = ox = 1) [Mother Letter = Elementary Trump]
Element: Air
Astrology: Uranus ♅ (rules Aquarius, exalted in Scorpio; detriment in Leo, fall in Taurus)
Path on the Tree of Life: 11th Path (Kether ↔ Chokmah; 1 ↔ 2)

Symbols/Colours:

The Fool is of the gold of air;
has the horns of Dionysus Zagreus;
between the horns is the phallic cone of the white light = influence of Kether (Crown) upon him;
he is shown against the background of air, dawning from space;
attitude of bursting unexpectedly upon the world;
he is clad in green (in tradition of spring), his shoes phallic gold of the sun;
in his right hand he bears the wand, tipped with a pyramid of white, of the All-Father;
in his left hand he bears the flaming pine cone, indicating vegetable growth;
from his left shoulder hangs a bunch of purple grapes that represent fertility, sweetness, and the basis of ecstasy;
this ecstasy is shown by the stem of the grapes developing into rainbow-hued spirals; the form of the universe; this suggests the Threefold Veil of the Negative manifesting (Ain, Ain Soph, Ain Soph Aur), by his intervention, in divided light;
upon this spiral whorl are other attributions of godhead; the vulture of Maut, the dove of Venus (Isis or Mary), and the ivy sacred to his devotees;
the butterfly of many-coloured air;
the winged globe with its twin serpents, a symbol which is echoed and fortified by the twin infants embracing on the middle spiral;
above them hangs the benediction of three flowers in one;
fawning upon him is the tiger;
beneath his feet in the Nile with its lotus stems crouches the crocodile;
in the centre of the figure, the focus of the microcosm is the radiant sun;
the whole picture is a glyph of the creative light.