Major Arcana: The Fool

The first card in the Tarot is one we all know as being called, "The Fool". This card is the very beginning of the Tarot deck and the Major Arcana, and what I like to think of as the essence of the Tarot. The Fool card, from my understanding and intuition over the years I've used the Tarot, sends a message of choice and destiny. In  using the Tarot, we choose our cards for the spread, but perhaps we don't always realize that perhaps we are not really choosing our cards by choice, but by the destined outcome of our shuffling the cards before use.

How I see it:
The Fool card is the innocent, youthful, and unstoppable spirit that each person has inside of them, wanting to be let out in order to venture forward into the great beyond. The urge and desire to move forward is there with the Fool , yet there will be things to hold us back. These obstacles may be minor or great; they may even take longer to overcome than imagined. Even so, the Fool is not about over coming obstacles within a journey, it is about starting the journey itself- sometimes the most difficult part of the process.
Overall, the Fool card speaks to me as the start of a process that has a goal in mind, but no direction specifically, which is why sometimes we must have faith in ourselves to guide us instead of a map.