The Fool's Journey

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In Tarot*, The Fool's Journey is a metaphor for a journey through life or an experience that a person must have to realise their complete self.

For those of you who may not know, my partner of almost 18 years and I have reached the end of our road together - it had never occurred to me that this was even possible. No sooner did our paths diverge and I also lost my job - that I saw coming like a mack truck with lights flashing and horns blaring - it still hurt when it hit! These events are not the subject of this blog but I offer them as both context and motivation for all that is to come.

This new path of mine has led me directly here to the edge of my known universe - perched on a precipice, about to leap off without a clue of what lays ahead, just like The Fool.

The Fool is a card of beginnings, the spirit in search of experience. He represents the mystical cleverness bereft of reason within us, the ability to perceive the logic in the illogical. The sun shining behind him represents the nature of the Fool's wisdom and exuberance or 'crazy wisdom'. He holds a flower, showing his appreciation of beauty. He is frequently accompanied by a dog, sometimes seen as his animal instinct. He carries a small pack filled with all he will need (presumably it's just his passport, some clean undies and a stack of makeup). He is standing on a precipice, apparently about to step off into oblivion. The Fool is both the beginning and the end, neither and otherwise, betwixt and between.

And so I step over the cliff's edge, propelled by all that is lost, unsure of what remains to be found. This blog is about this fool's journey into the great unknown.

*Keith, I am heavily into Tarot now. Everyone else, no I'm not.

  • Into the abyss
  • 12 months later...
Trip Start Apr 16, 2011
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Trip End Nov 27, 2011


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