When the Impossible Becomes the Inevitable: Saying ‘Yes’ to The Fool
Happy April Fool’s Day!
Instead of pranking anyone today, I want to take this opportunity to talk about the Tarot card, The Fool.
If you’d like to hear my playlist for The Fool while you read, you can listen here.
When The Fool arrives in a reading, I am always careful to point out that this card doesn’t represent a foolish person, quite the contrary.
The Fool is the Alpha and the Omega of the deck. Numbered 0, this card is both the chicken and the egg. The Fool is always with us, but when it arrives in a reading, we want to sit up and take notice.
The 22 Major Arcana cards tell a story. Joseph Campbell would call it the Hero’s Journey, we’ll call it The Fool’s journey.
Like three separate acts in a play, The Fool’s journey can be divided into the three lines of the Major Arcana, but The Fool stands alone.
To tell the story of The Fool, we get to go all the way back…
Once upon a time, we were all spirits without bodies. We saw something that we wanted to manifest. Divine and the…
