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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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The Fool Tarot Card: Prove What Can Be Done

The Fool likes to do things just to prove that these things can be done. It’s fun for the fool to choose something impossible, and do it. This challenges the notions that other people have of what impossible is. If the fool is doing it, how can it be impossible? It must be that the fool is possessed with magical powers. These people- they have their minds so made up of what can be done and what cannot be done, and are unwilling to waiver even the slightest from this mindset. And then they see the Fool doing exactly what they had their mind made up about what could not be done. Now they question things. They question what is and isn’t impossible and they question their own intuition about reality. This is one of your powers as a Fool. Brandish it wickedly! –Jim Larsen

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The Fool Tarot Card: Attach no Expectations

Sometimes the Fool card may be telling you to tap into your inner Fool child. Maybe it is telling you that the best energy to approach a situation is Fool Energy. Don’t attach an expectation to any outcomes. Just enter into the situation and allow it to unfold as it will. Now, you are open to the true strength of what the situation has for you. If you try to force an outcome you run the risk of depleting the power that exists in the situation. If you remain open to it as it is without trying to manipulate it, then it is what it is for you. Take it as it is for what it is and you will reap the benefits for you. This is to bring Fool energy to the situation. —Jim Larsen

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The Fool Tarot Card: To be Enlightened

The Fool is on the way to Enlightenment. Perhaps the Fool is already enlightened. It could be he’s been down the path already, reached the World, and now he is on a new journey, If the first journey was to become enlightened, maybe now he journeys to spread the wisdom of what he has learned to help others on their path.

To be enlightened means to be aware. It means to be aware of the interconnectedness of all things. It is to see how your own actions, words, and attitudes ripple outward and affect others. It is to be aware how others’ actions also ripple out and affect others, including yourself. It is to intuit the feelings and general disposition of others and to temper your actions around them accordingly.

To be enlightened is to see and understand what really matters, and how so much of what most people do think matters, does not. To be enlightened means to differentiate between what matters and what is mere social conditioning.

To be enlightened means to spot what others want and expect you to believe and what is actual truth. To be enlightened means to understand the motives that drive other people to push their ideas and their wants and desires onto you. That is, to understand what they gain by manipulating you into believing what is best for them even if in reality, it is completely worthless.

To be enlightened means to stand firm in what you know to be the truth no matter how anybody tries to convince you of a truth you know to be a lie. To be enlightened means to be unwavering in your own convictions. It means to see beyond the extent that others see into many other worlds and other truths. It is to do this no matter how convincing the argument is to not do it.

It takes a true Fool to become enlightened. A Fool will surrender the ego and accept when they need to alter their course. If they do not alter their course, they will likely veer from the light they are following. The Fool knows that to get where they are going, many course corrections will be necessary. They cannot stay so stuck in their head that they don’t see when the path is no longer under their feet. They ask for guidance and accept it when it comes. —Jim Larsen

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The Fool Tarot Card: Don’t Worry About Conventionality. Just Be You.

Sometimes you do have to wonder how many people would do the things you do. Who else but you would take the chances you take and the leaps of faith you take? Who else is willing to put themselves out there to try the kinds of things you do? Who else is willing to take the risks you take? Also, you have to ask, who else gets the unique rewards you do for being willing to do the things you do? How many people get to see the unique perspective on the world that you do for being willing and able to take the chances you take?

Because you are willing to not worry about conventionality for the sake of conventionality, you are granted a unique view on the world that so few ever get to see. And this is all because you are not nervous about being unconventional. Being willing to be unconventional opens windows to the world that rarely get opened. What is seen through these windows can change your outlook and perspective forever. You get to see that the world and the life you are living is not so predictable and set in stone. There are many variables to be explored. To be a Fool is to open yourself to many combinations of them.

Getting the most out of life and seeing a variety of perspectives really does come down to having the mindset of a Fool. Be open to new and different ideas and do not assume that when something is not exactly as you had hoped, that it is a failure. If you something is not as exactly as you had hoped for or envisioned it, it just means that there are more ways to see it than you originally realized. It doesn’t mean it’s wrong, and it doesn’t mean it’s broken. It just means there is more to it than you originally thought. And as a Fool, you are wide open to this. It does not bother you.

It does, in fact, excite you to know you are pleased with the notion that there is more to a situation and to the world, and even to the universe that you can explore and get to learn about. So even if a situation is not as you initially expected, you will still be excited about it. This is the Fool nature within you. This is the piece of you that wants to explore the many facets of being human and being alive. —Jim Larsen

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The Fool Tarot Card: Is it time to move on?

The Fool in Tarot may show up for you to let you know it is time to move on. Maybe you have spent too much time in one place. Maybe you have overstayed your welcome. It is true that not everybody is meant to be rooted in one place. For some, roots are necessary. To get out of life what they need to get out of life, they need to be in one place. But that is not true of everybody.

Some people have the soul of a Fool, the spirit of a wanderer, an insatiable thirst to see what the world has to offer. For these people, restlessness is a way of life. They need to live a life of few possessions and a passport that has a long way to go before its expiration date. These people will be reminded from time to time that it is time to move on. Time to travel. Time to start something new.

When the Fool card comes up for you, it can easily be reminding you that this is who you are- a natural born Fool whose time to move onto whatever is next has arrived. What are you waiting for? Throw a tube of toothpaste and some clean underwear in your backpack and go.

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