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The Fool's blog: ""The Fool""

created on 03/24/2007  |  http://fubar.com/the-fool/b67588

Who is the fool you ask?

According to the Tarot: He is the freedom-loving FOOL. He represents new beginnings as he starts his heroic quest for self knowledge. In his naive innocence, the FOOL is very creative for he does not yet know rules or limitations. He is the court jester, village idiot, clown, time traveler, speaker of truth, and prodigal son. Mythologist Joseph Campbell interpreted the FOOL as the hero with 1,000 faces. His number is 0, the empty vessel waiting to be filled. He is ruled by the planet Uranus, the planet of revolution and liberation. My own Interpretation: Sometimes you have to take risk, go against everything society says is 'sensible' or 'wise', to act rightly. It means the inner forces, the inner certainty, intuition - no, less tangible than intuition even - which is at the heart of great endeavors - or right action. You must trust your inner voice, not those of the many people in your surroundings and society willing to tell you 'the smart thing to do'. I will end with a paraphrase of an old Zen teaching story... A monk was out walking in ancient Japan. He encounters a wild cat, and as he is fleeing, slips over a cliff, but manages to grab hold of a gnarled root at the edge of the cliff. He looks down, and sees sharp broken rocks below. He looks up and sees the wild cat, snarling at him. As he looks around, he also sees beside him a bush with a single bright, succulent berry on it. He looks up, then down again. He plucks the berry, and pops it in his mouth. How sweet it tastes! That's the Fool. The wise Fool. ( Or so this fool thinks.)
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