Fool

“There is something in the nature of all play that is not serious, but at the same time can be sincere.” –Alan Watts

Welcome to the second  entry of Djed Taroth Blog. I hope all of you had a great start into 2015.As we step into a new year - the questions which were supressed and not answered before start to emerge out of nothingness.Our own way towards answering those questions can be varied depending on our personal conditions - psychological, material, family-related or any other stance that we take on. Quite often the pattern of thinking we use is somewhat a derivatitve of our "must's" and "should's" - a norm we acknowledged for granted not necessarily asking ourselves - "Is this the way I would do this?"Faith, it seems, can be quite myopic if it is without a shadow of doubt and leads to naïvete.Fool in tarot is the card of seemingly dubious expression. Only seemingly so as we look closer at the persona. Walking carelessly and often depicted with a dog biting up his ankle Fool bears the characteristics of sacred trickster - the one that makes a quite foreseeable unreasonable jump into something that most would take as rather an act of suicide yet there is more to it on symbolical level that can teach us a great deal to drink from.  Using your own sense to deal with matters where there is diversity of importance we might start trusting our own intuition and ideas which often stem from the cocky sense of humour and the will to go against the grain, try out different ways. On a lighter note we might be in a situation where quite extreme measures can be used to deal with a situation and yet our inner compass and humane feature of endeavouring things not as predictable as we usually approach leads to new doors.The scale of means we use to solve our problems can be measured with approximate answers, possible beliefs and different degrees of how certain are we but does it really makes us sure of how we should conduct anything? Embracing the uncertainity and treating it with a proper dose of self-inflicted joy and cheerfulness has never been a better trait to help yourself. We are after all fallible creatures and prone to making mistakes - bigger, smaller- it's all humane thing. We can all be Drunken Kung Fu Masters and reveal the Wider Scale plan of creation out of something Unknown, Uncertain, Shapeless and only seemingly Hopeless.Fool and its archetype has been always one of the major figures  in tarot but also a common figure in complexed and hierarchical  world of feudal society back in Middle Ages and many other social forms in Europe and worldwide. A peripheral nature of this persona is another trait that can be interpreted to benefit from. There is a certain point of balance that we may use to help ourselves.  Laughing of ourselves and how seriously we took what is given to us as a role to play or our own mistakes and the utter nonsense of them when we look from different perspective is a feature that can be introduction to actually stimulate others - coaxing them to be open minded and grasp a completely opposite viewpoints and benefit from them. The reason it is in service to imagination - it's the very power of enlarging and elongating the horizons to breed some new forms and shapes and functions they follow. It's the music of our psychological individuation to breed new forms of tonality out of something atonal.Fool has a very dense layer of social symbolic aspects. The voice we need to intiate to be heard is the rebellious one - the one against the rigidness of the system we profess to understand and obey. But how far it can last? It's the mask we take off the face and the mask of a jester that helps us, only for a time to express something important. But hey! Wasn't that the answer we needed?Thank you