Here is an all-fools tarot. ("All fools, all the time!" as Madama Thalassa might say, tap-dancing and swing ropes of jet beads.) This is a deck that may well speak to a part of the tarot-soul that hasn't yet been addressed. The fool card of the tarot has emerged in recent decades as a pivotal figure of the deck. He is understood as a kind of Everyperson: the human personality in its sweetest, simplest, most innocent, most impetuous, most courageous state. Yes, the term will make you cringe, but he (and she, of course), is the Inner Child. An earlier generation also liked the term Puer Aeternus, Eternal Child, although this was also used as a psychological diagnosis for an adult with commitment problems (before we came to understand that we no longer have problems, but instead "issues"). The Fool's Journey is also the name given to a favorite approach to the tarot, as the trump sequence is seen as a path of lessons, obstacles, and pleasures that the Fool encounters on life's adventure. Almost all of us can identify with the innocence, the fresh start, represented by the Fool - and those few people who can't appreciate the Fool probably need his influence most.