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= The Happy Squirrel (Tarot card) =

The Happy Squirrel (XXIII) is a nonstandard Major Arcana card in the tarot deck.

Description


A squirrel sits on a branch, smiling and holding an acorn.

History
The Happy Squirrel originates from the The Simpsons episode "Lisa's Wedding". In this episode, Lisa visits a fortune-teller and is initially frightened when the fortune-teller draws the Death card. The fortune-teller explains that the Death card does not necessarily symbolize death, but just a transformation. The fortune-teller then draws The Happy Squirrel, whereupon Lisa remarks that it is cute. The fortune-teller, however, is alarmed for reasons unknown; when pressed for explanation, she simply says "the cards can be vague and mysterious".

Since then, The Happy Squirrel has been incorporated in some modern tarot decks, usually as a joke card.

Being so modern, The Happy Squirrel does not appear in most traditional tarot decks like the Rider-Waite deck.

Interpretation
This card has no canonical interpretation, as the creators of "Lisa's Wedding" likely intended the card as a one-off joke. Most readers remove The Happy Squirrel from the deck before doing a tarot reading.

However, some interpretations by various people of The Happy Squirrel include:


 * An unforeseeable circumstance, neither good nor bad.
 * A random element that cannot be controlled.
 * Something bad disguised as something good.
 * Prepare for a winter.
 * The querent is crazy, and the reader should run.

Drawn in reverse, it can mean:


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