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If you are a new subscriber, a special WELCOME! This post is a new beginning. I have done posts including the tarot before, but I am starting a new series around the Major Arcana cards of the Tarot. Looking deeply into each of their specific qualities and how they relate to our lives. These will intermittently come as part of my regular posts, but they will have their own category on my substack site. There will be no particular order as we travel through these archetypes, but it makes sense to start with the first one, The Fool!
The Fool
Uncertainty is afoot! Something unfamiliar and new is at hand. Urging us to let go and trust the wisdom of this unfurling. Inviting us to move beyond our imagined limits, blinders and paradigms and simply be curious. To see the impossible become possible!
Within the past six weeks I have received The Fool card three times. Here are some snippets from my journal…
A reminder to trust. To let go to the process. I don’t need to explore every little detail in order to jump. Channel that eternal vagabond, the nomadic soul.
Follow the deep pull inside even though I don’t know where it is heading. Jump because I have too.
The Fool lets us know that no matter what is transpiring, there is potentiality within the chaos. They have a sense of fearlessness and innocence about them. Moving towards the change with enthusiasm. Trusting that even though the outcome is unknown, they follow their heart and intuition and take that leap anyways. Knowing the magic of life is being true to oneself. And that without risk there is no reward.
Let us look more deeply into the qualities of the fool…
Wonder and Curiosity
Wonder is not concerned with answers. It’s a ongoing question, a paradoxical koan. Permeating the being with pure amazement, deep connection, surprising moments. Like tenacious sprouts breaking though cracks in the road. Bees drunk on nectars of sage and thyme. Fluffy cloud formations drifting without a care. A drop of water on glass refracting light into spectral colors. Wonder is a curiosity longing to be encountered.
I Don’t Know
“I don’t know” is an amazing place to rest. Letting the question or questions inform rather than desperately searching high and low for solutions. It can be uncomfortable being uncertain and unresolved. This is not a place we are culturally supported to be in. Requiring us to trust that what is needed will arrive at the perfect time, right when we need it. Letting limited understanding flow into greater clarity.
It truly is a humble stance, but not of weakness. It takes strength to not grab at conclusions. Why shut the door on our own unfolding? Open into the beauty of being a child again, filled with curiosity, wonder in the exploration and discovering.
"It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest power." Joanna Macy
Magic in the Mundane
The world is a mystical place. Not just of sacred sites, ancient temples and marvels of nature, but also in the simplicity of a falling leaf, a cat’s meow, the rhythmic typing on a keyboard. What if the commonplace, the things around us that we are so convinced we know, are gateways into the extraordinary? Would we then stop chasing those destinations we can never seem to arrive at. What would happen if we took off the blinders of certainty and truly saw something as if for the first time? Discovering new dimensions within mediocre moments. Opening to the exquisiteness of the minute changes that are taking place.
Does all this seem like just a trivial act? I am not saying this is the answer to the middle east crisis, war in the Ukraine, homelessness, possible recession and constant opposition. But aren’t there many big and small possible solutions. We have to start somewhere. What if finding the commonality we share is the beginning of seeing beyond the differences?
I want to mention here that I have been thoroughly enjoying the series, Poetry on the Mundane, that
from Ordinary Magic has been writing. A deeper exploration and hands on experience into the mundane. Highly recommend it.Trusting the Surrender
Can you let go into what is calling you, despite your fears and trepidation?
Are you willing to take that dive into unknown waters, trusting that Life and Love has you?
Do you have the conviction, irrespective of not knowing the outcome, to open to change and transformation?
Longing for deeper Truth can be the answer unto itself. At some point there must be a returning home to the pure question. Not as “someone” separate having an inquiry but a turn from an outer focus to an inner one. A shift into the discovery that Truth is what we already are. As we deepen more and more, we uncover what is in the way. Compassionately allowing the veils of our own misunderstanding to dissolve back into what we are. Yielding to this natural revelation of deep wisdom, love and knowledge.
Questions for you:
How is the The Fool showing up in your life today?
What is calling you? Can you let go into it?
How does the magic of wonder show up in you life?
Would love to know your thoughts and feelings. Let’s have a conversation…
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Thank you for this, Julie! What a gorgeous look at the Fool! I love this and I love all four of those cards! For me, The Fool energy shows up each and every time I'm in a situation and find myself saying/thinking "What do I do?" My guides have beat it into my head that the answer is ALWAYS "Nothing." Do nothing, make no decisions, be still, be open and allow. It's hard for a control addict like me to not rush into resolving or fixing things, but the fool helps me remember to move forward when the path appears rather than forcing a path where there isn't one.
This so hits give today Julie. The Fool is alive in the process of hiring a private caregiver for my in-laws. It's a leap I have hoped to make for at least six months and I'm excited to take the leap.
This transition also means letting go of some of our current caregivers we've had through a service. It's not the most comfortable position to be in, but I trust it will be an improvement.
On the flip side, I got news that feels very shadow Fool. MU sister has just been diagnosed with end stage alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver. I don't have much information to wrap my head around this news. This is so opposite the Fool as innocent traveler, looking forward to what might be discovered around the corner. Instead of butterflies of excitement there's a rock of uncertainty and fear.
And an acknowledgement that I have nine older siblings and that is a lot of potential loss/grief in my future.