The Fool gains strength through obstacles.
The Fool is on a journey and will find his way. He has explorations to make and will never stop. Hey may rest, but he will continue on his way once this rest has been accomplished. Obstacles and hindrances will present themselves to him, but he will find a way through, around, over, or under them. The Fool has a destiny to fulfill, and as such, he views any obstacle or hindrance he is presented with as an opportunity to amass strength and wisdom as he finds his way to the other side of them.
Nothing the Fool is presented with is intended to stop him, but rather to test his dedication to the journey and his ability to forge his way ahead. This journey that the Fool is on is not a journey of a single lifetime, but rather an accumulation of journeys throughout his spiritual/karmic existence. Therefore, he has endured uncountable obstacles and the necessity of getting past them is encoded in his karmic DNA.
Each lifetime for the Fool brings its own destinations to enhance the spirit. Each journey of each lifetime is a stretch of the total journey that takes the Fool to Grand Enlightenment. Even then, the journey does not end. As a grandly enlightened spirit, new journeys of understanding open up that are beyond the comprehension of any logical, earth-bound mind. As earthly beings, we are only given access to so much information. This is not to keep us in the dark, but to keep us focused on what we need to focus on for our given lifetime. To be given access to more than that would give way to unnecessary distractions as we would tend to project our attention to the fascination of what is far beyond the scope of current concerns.
We speculate the grand meaning of our karmic existence to a degree already. We do what we can to imagine our lives in a much greater context than what we experience earthly. To have access to validation of the ultimate grand scheme of our life, however, would cause us to live in the future without first catching up to it. This would have the unfortunate effect of not looking for the lessons our lifetime journeys are designed to teach us, thus depriving us of the growth opportunities that actually lead us to that Grand Enlightenment we are working towards.
The Fool, in his ultimate wisdom, accepts the journey ahead of him, not knowing where it will take him, but with faith that it will take him where he needs to be. The Fool knows, that since he is destined to be somewhere, he will get there. Obstacles will not stop him. He knows that in the overcoming of obstacles, strength, wisdom, and strength will be gained. This is true of grand karmic journeys as well as mundane earthly journeys. — Jim Larsen
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