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The Fool Juggles Options



A tarot card reading I did for myself:

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Hilarious, since my plan for the day was to go down to an arts festival in town, act like a fool, juggle and see what happens. This, to me, is Tarot at its most eloquent: when it tells you things in no uncertain terms you already know. The phenomenon is hardly unique though, as when you’re living in the Way of the Truth™, the Truth is constantly unveiled and reflected back to you in all things. It’s mostly just a matter of if and how we face it.







3 Reader Responses

  1. Gary Says:
    May 25th, 2008 at 2:07 pm

    The whole tarot deck, or at least the twenty-two trump cards of the Major Arcana, may be read as the Fool’s journey. On one important level, the major cards are chapters in the story of a quest. I’m talking the universal human quest for understanding and divine reunion. And it doesn’t matter whether the quest starts with the Fool or ends with him, because it’s a loop anyhow, a cycle endlessly repeated. When the naive young Fool finally tumbles over the precipice, he falls into the world of experience. Now his journey has really begun. Along the way, he’ll meet all the teachers and tempters-the tempters are teachers, too-and challenging situations that a person is likely to meet in the task of his or her growing. The Fool is potentially everybody, but not everybody has the wisdom or the guts to play the Fool. A lot a folks don’t know what’s in the bag they’re carrying. And they’re all too willing to trade it for cash. Inside the bag, they have every tool they need to facilitate their life’s journey, but they won’t even open it up and glance inside. Subconsciously, the goal of all of us out-of-control primates is essentially the same, but let me assure you of this: the only ones who’ll ever reach that goal are the ones who have the courage to make fools of themselves along the way. From Q-jo by way of Tom Robbins.

  2. Ted Heistman Says:
    May 25th, 2008 at 8:33 pm

    I did a tarot reading today too. Which I haven’t done for several months.

    I got a pretty heavy duty reading involving the World, the Magician, the Emperor, King of Wands, knight of Wands the Tower, the wheel of fortune reversed and death.

    Some heavy stuff. It was kind of one of these things were I know its all true also.

  3. Seán Says:
    May 27th, 2008 at 7:58 am

    I t would be nice to know what part of life each card represents.

    Assuming it’s a simple past-present-future reading I would state that you had begun a new life which has led to your present state of juggling (literal and metaphorical) and re-organisation.

    The future looks promising if you can tell the difference between dream and reality, which will give you the chance to make a dream into reality.
    That’s just my interpretation - your own is likely to be a lot more accurate.

    It’s nice to see you use my favourite deck too!

    Love,
    Seán



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