After my in-depth study on Crowley's Fool I was inspired to paint him on a canvas... in fact I'm making a Tarot Fool card on canvas.

The basic idea is that of a baby upside down (head down, feet up) in a cosmic egg. His eyes are closed and so he is dreaming, but make-up pupils are painted on his eyelids, with small baby horns, but also a crown of enlightenment. The umbelical cord attached to the egg circles into a heart form in front of the baby's chest, implying the mother watching over him. The yoke of the egg is a golden triangle (supernal Golden Dawn triangle), pointing down just like the baby. At the bottom of the painting is a primal ocean, the upper rim of the painting are clouds forming: the separation of sky from world.

Now I'm deciding on which attributes to use, and I would like attributes from several religions frm the world.

I will be using a dove (spirit and message) and grapes (dyonisus). I'm considering a butterfly (and perhaps a pop) for transformation, with a wing design of the Mayan Galactic Butterfly on it (although I fear I will drop this galactic butterfly idea as it seems to be a new age invention rather than supported by actual connection to Mayan religion).

I'm not sure yet which attributes I will use for the "instincts", and I'm considering a chtonic symbol (life, death)

What I'm looking for on advice is on Hindu symbols. Vishnu creates the universe via his dreams, while sleeping on his snakebed. But then he is the all creator and I'm not sure whether I want to or even can equal the Fool to Vishnu. I've been thinking of Brahma who is tempted (dualistic), and thus a lotus flower on which the cosmic egg is balanced, a purple lotus flower at the top of the head of this yet unborn baby.

I know there are people on the site who would have a clearer perception on this, and who could advize me... What symbols would you advize from the Hindu tradition for a combination of "transformation", "unborn", "divine", "dreaming/illusion", "outside time and space", "able to see all possibilities"?

Here's an upload of my painting so far. This is still a work in progress, and right now only the lotus petals are at a near-finished stage.

I will be getting rid of the rainbow under the Lotus flower, and make it ocean again, but with a white glow around the Lotus and stem. Instead I'll use the rainbow colours for the inside of the Lotus, closer to the baby's head. The baby is mostly filled in with background paint, and needs much more defining. Its smile needs more defining too. And though originally I didn't want it, I'm now thinking of letting it suckle its thumb. The heart coil of hte umbelical cord needs enlargement. An Egyptian winged sun will be painted under the Root Chakra symbol. The dove is sketched on so far in the right corner. A black crow opposite of the dove is missing in the right top corner. On the left bottom corner, a crocodile will emerge out of the water. Haven't decided yet which animal I'll have in the right bottom corner. But there are a few candidates. The blue parts within the womb-egg will acquire stars.

I'm thinking of including a hummingbird, but not sure yet. And I have to work in two serpents, but not sure yet where or how. Nor am I sure yet how I will work in a cup and wand with fire.

Any constructive comments or ideas are welcome.

i like this.  i agree to take out the rainbow.   maybe the seperants could be bottom corners?

Thank you

It's nearly finished, except for the baby itself, the umbelical cord, the grapes, and the rainbow lotus heart

Hi girl,

Mmm, very nice indeed!! I would want to consider that we may be able to place the Fool at the beginning or at the end of the deck. In your painting, I gather you place him at the beginning as being an unborn child.

The embulical cord amy have a connotation to the white dog, denoting fedility and a link to the stability in the environment he comes from?

Blessed be.