It's been a while gentle reader. Many attempts to start up again with some sort of regularity. The last few years being its own struggle to recover and figure out how to move forward.
My own tarot reading for the spring equinox this year focused heavily on The Fool card from the tarot and that it was time to delve back into tarot as a spiritual practice and not just mundane soothing of our questions. Will he come back to me? Will I get that job? Ad nauseam.
The Fool's Journey in its strictest sense is a way to internalize the meanings of the 22 major arcana cards. It does describe the potential enlightenment process for most western practitioners. However, don't be deceived into thinking it is a straight line.
We in the west are particularly enthralled with the ideal that everything happens in a straight line. A direct methodology. Luckily for us the universe is cyclical in nature. And like most cycles the journey can stall, it can go in spurts, you can arrive at any number of random points in the journey without any real idea of how one got there.
The Fool card astounds me in its simplicity of describing the process of our daily lives and its profound implications once we start peeling away the layers of its meaning. With its numeric value of zero there is a riddle of no beginning and no ending. It is complete within itself and perhaps that is the real meaning of our spiritual journey. We are complete in ourselves, nothing lacking and no beginning and no ending. As I study the eastern tradition of Buddhism it reminds me very much of the Heart Sutra that form is emptiness and emptiness is form. Not in the dark, _blank sense but the golden field of active potential. What do I mean by that?
What I mean is that the universe is always ready to create itself through us. There is this warm energy that is amorphous until we start choosing to assign it meaning.
As I continue forward with this project I am assigning myself the task of looking at how I create my universe and assign it meaning. I challenge you, gentle reader, to do the same. If we are the ones assigning meaning to our universe does that mean we get to change how we are experiencing it? Yes beloved, very much yes.
My goal with this project is to continue to explore what I have learned and am still learning about the tarot as an esoteric system and share that knowledge with other seekers on the path.
Blessed Be.
