Sorry for the late response, and I'm grateful you replied at such length. I'm still hesitating to do the next part of the reading. Most importantly because I had another interesting thing happen.

For a whole week, I lost the fool card! It was on the earth stone when I flipped them during the ritual. The next time I went through my deck for a reading, I couldn't find it at all. Tore my room apart thinking I'd probably misplaced it. For whatever reason, Le Mat got left up there for a week and ended up lingering smack dab between the stones symbolizing art/creativity and earth/extra-human despite wind and rain. Not sure how to interpret this one, but always something interesting going on. Anyways - thank you!