Journey of the Fool

The Journey of the Fool is a metaphor for the journey through life. Each Major Arcana card is a step along the way - an experience that a person recognized to incorporate the full need.

22 of these descriptions are available on the keywords for each Major Arcana card. The keywords are highlighted in the text. A number of the card is in ().

• We begin with the Fool (0), a card from the beginning. The Fool is all of us, when we began our journey of life. He is a fool, because only a simple soul of the innocent belief in a journey with all its perils and pains.
• At the beginning of his journey, the Madman is a newborn - fresh, open and spontaneous. The illustration on the map 0 has his arms out, holding his head high. He is prepared to accept what comes their way, but it is to cross outside the edge of the cliff, which is just about to. The fool is not aware of the difficulties he learns in his pursuit of face to the lessons of the world.
• The fool is a little with the rest of the great mysteries. Zero is an unusual number. It is based on the exact center of the number system - the balance between positive and negative aspects. At birth, the madman is located in the middle of his personal universe. He is strangely empty (as in zero), but by the desire to go forward and learn. This company sounds crazy, but it?
• When you leave the fools immediately take the magician (1) and the High Priestess (2) - the great balance of forces shaping the perceived world. It is a characteristic of the material universe, as soon as behalf of some aspects of the experience that we automatically invoke the opposite.
• The mage is the positive side. He represents the active, masculine power of creative impulse. It is also our conscience. The Magician is the force that makes us the world through a concentration of individual will and power implications. The High Priestess is the negative side. She is the mysterious unconscious. It offers to enter the fertile soil in the creative events. The High Priestess is our potential is not expected from a drug that expression.
• The positive and negative terms are not "good" and "bad". These are human distinctions do not apply in the Tarot. The Wizard and the priestess are absolutely equal in value and meaning. Each is necessary for balance. We can see the negative as well as our shadow, but shadows, we can not see the light, and without a source of potential, we can create.
• As it grows, is the fool more and more about their surroundings? As with most babies for the first time his mother recognizes - the warm, loving woman who feeds and cares for him. Also to learn about Mother Earth, who feeds him in a broader sense?
• The Empress (3) represents the world of nature and sensitivity. A baby delights in the exploration of a smell everything he touches, and tastes. He can not get enough of the sights and sounds that delight the senses. It is, of course, in the abundant goodness of mother earth that surrounds us, to enjoy with their assistance.
• The following person meets the Fool is the father figure of the Emperor (4). He is the representative of the structure and authority. As a baby leaves its mother's arms, learns that this pattern, their world. Explores objects react in a predictable way can be. The child experiences a new kind of pleasure that comes from the discovery of the Order.
• The Fool also encounters rules. He learns that is not his will is not always the top priority, and specific behaviors necessary for their welfare. There are people, the authority implementing these guidelines. These limitations can be frustrating, but by the patient to the father of the Fool begins to understand his goals.
• Finally fool front of his house companies in the world. Is exposed to the beliefs and traditions of their culture and begin their formal education. The High Priest (5) provides organized belief systems that at the beginning of the surround and informs the growing child.
• A Hierophant is someone who interprets arcane knowledge and mysteries. The card 5, we see a religious figure of the blessing of two acolytes. Perhaps it is to induce the members of the church. Although this image is religious, is really a symbol for initiations of all kinds.
• The child is trained in all the practices of his society and becomes part of a culture and belief. Learn to identify with a group and discover a sense of belonging. He loves to learn the customs of their society and shows how well he can adjust it.
• Finally, two new challenges is the Mad. We experience the strong desire for sexual union with another person. Earlier it was mainly self-centered. Now he feels the trend of the equilibrium represented in the Lovers (received 6) and to a loving relationship. He longs for relationship.
• The fool has to decide on their own beliefs. It is good enough to fit in learning and growing, but at some point, should determine their own values if it wants to be, true to it. You must begin to question received opinions.
• Has the time the fool is an adult, a strong identity and a degree of self-control. Through discipline and willpower, has developed an internal control, which you can triumph over his environment.
• (7 The Chariot) represents the ego strength that the coronation is crazy so far. Map 7, we see a proud, dominant figure riding triumphantly through their world. He is in the visible control over himself and everything he sees. For now, the success of the company's Fool is all he wanted, and feels a certain satisfaction. Insurance is the confidence of youth.
• In the course of time is the life of new challenges fools some of the pain and disappointment. He has many opportunities to, for quality (8) force. He is pressed to develop their courage and determination and keep the heart will find, despite setbacks.
• The Mad is also discovering the properties of the quiet patience and tolerance. It recognizes the voluntary leadership of the Chariot should be tempered by kindness and a soft power-loving approach to. Sometimes, intense passions surface, like the fool thought he had everything, including himself, under control.
• Finally, the fool led to ask the old question: "Why?" He is not included in the search for answers and a mere curiosity but a deeply felt need to find out why people live, even if only suffer and die. The Hermit (9) represents the need to find the deeper truth.
• The Fool began looking inward to try to understand their feelings and motivations. The sensual world has less attraction for him, and he looks for moments of solitude, away from the hectic activities of the society. Over time, you can find a teacher or leader who can give advice and direction.
• After a long search, the fools are beginning to see how everything is interconnected. He has a beautiful design vision of the world, their intricate patterns and cycles. The Wheel of Fortune (10) is a symbol of the mysterious world, whose parts can work together harmoniously. If the fool insight into the beauty and order of the world, if only briefly, he finds some of the answers you seek. Times
• their experiences seem to be the work of fate. A chance meeting or the miraculous appearance begins the process of change. The fool can see his fate in the sequence of events that led to this juncture. After being alone, he feels ready again for the movement and action. Their perspective is broader and considers itself within the larger scheme of the universal plan. His sense of meaning is restored.
• The fool must now decide what this vision of him personally. He looks back on his life, to find the cause and effect that they have done at this time, too. He assumes responsibility for his actions in the past, so that you can fix damage and to ensure an honest course for the future. The demands of justice (11) should serve to allow a white vest.
• This is a moment of decision for the fools. They make important decisions. Want to stay true to their ideas will be easier, or in a life more aware that includes a higher growth?
• Undaunted sets the Fool. He is determined to realize his vision, but life is not so easily tamed. Finally, he meets his personal cross - an experience that seems too difficult to bear. This enormous challenge humiliated, until he has no choice but to terminate and release.
• First, the Fool feels defeated and lost. He believes he has sacrificed everything, but learns from the floor of a truly astonishing. It is believed that if you abandon your struggle for control, the same story, as it should work. By being open and vulnerable, discovered the wonderful support of his crazy inner self. He learns to make his experience, rather than fight them. It feels a surprising joy and begins to flow with life.
• The Fool feels suspended in a timeless moment, free of urgency and pressure. In reality, his world was upside down. The fool is hanged (12), obviously, the martyrdom, but really quiet and peaceful.
• The Fool begins with old habits and approaches to eliminate tired. Cut to the non-essential, because it shows the basic elements of life. He goes through endings as he says about the aspects of his life behind him. The process is like dying, because it seems, is the death (13) of his family car, to facilitate the growth of a new one. Sometimes, this change seems to be relentlessly crushing the fool, but at some point is to discover that death is not a permanent condition. It is simply a transition to a new way, more full of life.
• For the Hermit, the Fool has shifted back and forth violently in an emotional pendulum. Now he realizes the stability of the balance of frugality (14). Discover some composure and balance. Experience from the extremes, has come to know in order to appreciate the restraint. The Fool has combined all aspects of self-determination in the center of all that glitters with health and wellness. How delicate and smooth is the angel of the card 14 when compared with a ruler powerful, but strictly in the Chariot (Card 7)? The Fool has a long way home in the realization of a harmonious.
• A fool for your health, peace and serenity gracefully. What more could you need? In everyday terms, not much, but the fool is brave and we go with the deepest levels of your being. He soon finds himself in the eye with the devil (15) face.
• The devil is an evil, sinister figure, which are outside of us. He is the knot of ignorance and despair in all of us present at a certain level. To force the attractions of seduction to convince us that materials often do not remember our slavery to them.
• We live in a limited range of experience, knowledge of the wonderful world that is our true heritage. The couple on the card 15 is chained, but condescending. Could so easily dismissed, but not even stop their imprisonment. They look like lovers, but also realize that their love is confined in a narrow range. The price for this ignorance is an inner core of despair.
• How stupid can the elimination of the devil? May end its influence? The fool can only find satisfaction by the sudden change, which represented the Tower (16). The tower is the strength of the ego of each of us to his beautiful inner core. Gray, cold and hard as a rock, you will protect that strength, but in reality a prison. Creating
• Sometimes only a monumental crisis may have enough energy to break the walls of the tower. The card 16, we see lightning illuminating the building. He has driven the residents appear to be falling to his death. The crown shows that executives who once proud and now they are by a force larger than themselves humiliated.
• The fool can have a jerk, if he wants to be free, but the resulting revelation makes the painful experience worth it. The dark despair is criticized in an instant, and the light of truth is free to shine.
• The Fool is bathed with a peaceful repose. The beautiful pictures of the Star (17) attest to this quiet. The woman on the card 17 is shown naked, her soul no longer hidden behind a disguise. Bright shining stars in the cloudless sky as a beacon of hope and inspiration.
• The Fool has a confidence that completely replaces blessed the negative energies of the devil. His belief in himself and the future is restored. It is full of joy, and her only wish is to share generously with the rest of the world. Your heart is open, and his love freely bestows. This calm after the storm was a magical moment for the fools.
• What impact could ruin this perfect peace? There is another challenge for the fool? In fact, happiness makes it vulnerable to the illusions of the moon (18). The joy of a fool is an emotional state. His positive emotions but not the mental clarity. As the dream, the Madman prone to fantasy, distortion and twist the truth.
• The Moon stimulates creative imagination. He opens the door to create strange and wonderful thoughts of the bladder from the unconscious, but also deep fears and anxieties. These experiences can lead to the fool lost and confused.
• It is the clear visibility of the sun (19) that directs the imagination of the Innocents. The illumination from the sun shines in all the hidden places. It distributes the clouds of confusion and fear. He explained, so much the fool feels and understands the goodness of the world.
• Now enjoys a vibrant energy and enthusiasm. The opening of the stars frozen in a guarantee for the expansion. The fool is the naked baby picture on the card 19, riding happily to face a new day. No challenge is too great. The Fool feels a radiant vitality. It is in large companies, since them implicitly points to itself everything you need. He is able to realize his greatness.
• The Fool has been reborn. Your wrong, was poured yo-yo, so that its manifest radiant, true self. He has discovered that there is not joy, fear, in the midst of life.
• Feel relieved The Fool. He forgives himself and others, knowing that his true self is pure and good. It is unfortunate mistakes of the past, but he knows that this is due to their ignorance of their true nature. He feels clean and refreshed, ready to begin again. It
• time for the fool to a deep container (20) is making about his life. Your personal day of reckoning has come. From that time it does, in fact, he may take the necessary decisions about the future. He can choose wisely on the values that we love, and should be discarded.
• The Angel of the card 20 is crazy Higher called them and fulfill their promise. He discovered his true calling - the reason for going in this life. To disappear, the doubts and concerns, and is willing to follow his dream.
• The Mad re-enters the world (21), but this time with a more complete understanding. It has integrated all the different parts of them and achieves wholeness. It has reached a new level of happiness and fulfillment.
• The Fool experience as a full and meaningful life. The future is infinitely more promising. In keeping with his personal vocation, is actively involved in the world. It provides a service by discovering their unique gifts and talents, and that attempts in all that one lives. Due to the Internal Security Act conspiracy, the whole world to see that they are rewarded for their efforts. His accomplishments are many.
• This trip is not so stupid, crazy, after all. Through perseverance, courage and honesty, was spontaneously, that first drove him in search of himself, but now he is fully aware of their place in the world. This cycle is over, but the crazy never ceases to grow. Soon you'll be ready, a journey that begins in an increased understanding.

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