Adventure! The Journey Begins
GETTING TO KNOW THE FOOL
For me, The Fool is not a here-today-gone-tomorrow event in your life. When The Fool invites you to come along on this path, you have an opportunity to live and learn from all the other Major arcana as you travel from the Magician to The World. This is your one-way ticket to your spiritual journey.
The Fool is the most powerful card in the deck. To the Fool, what can be and what actually is, are the same.
The Fool mentors the Tarot as he journeys through all the experiences of life, changed by each experience. As The Fool Journeys through the major arcana, he journeys through the experiences of life, changed by each event.
We experience these challenges as we travel through our own life journeys, adapting and reawakening. The presence of The Fool shows up in every spread.
The Fool lives in the moment. His journeys are unintentional. This life story does not limit him.
The Fool’s appearance tells you that something new has just entered in your life. This is the new beginning you’ve been needing: opportunity, adventure, and escape.
Experiences reveal your true potential. Your new life journey with The Fool is exciting!
New challenges and projects empower you to find yourself. You now move toward spiritual self-enlightenment. Enjoy the truth right in front of you!
Because you are connected to something bitter than yourself, you feel protected. Your special, telltale attitude tells everyone you’re connected to something bitter than yourself.
STORY
Back in the 90’s I took a massage class. I’d already graduated from PMTI a decade before. Marge D’Urso, my reflexology guru, taught a new kind of massage.
Our class was small, only about 8 students. Including Elizabeth. While the rest of us were trying to learn new massage strokes and more about the body systems, Elizabeth flew through the class. It seemed the information went from Marge’s mouth straight to her brain. She absorbed the information through the pores of her skin. Elizabeth was on a path.
Elizabeth somehow found a source of untapped potential and was making a new start in life. She jumped into the unknown with both feet!
After a while, Marge had us each gathering our list of people for our clinicals. While we scrounged around looking for people, Elizabeth had lists of names and phone numbers of people who seemingly appeared out of nowhere to be on her list to receive a massage.
A couple of people in the class began to get a little jealous.
I didn’t. I saw her situation for what it was: Marge’s massage class was a new beginning for Elizabeth. She was on a path. More specifically, Elizabeth was a modern-day personification of the age-old Tarot card “The Fool”.
While the rest of us word comfortable student clothing (jeans or sweatpants), Elizabeth came to every class dressed richly, celebrating her total openness to life and anything on the curriculum that day. More importantly, Elizabeth wore gorgeous shoes. She wore sandals with 4-inch heels, or wedge-soled pumps. Elizabeth’s shoes celebrated life, love, and reflexology.
Each class was a new opportunity for her to learn whatever new thing Marge set out for us. Elizabeth was fearless!. .
Elizabeth was an innocent student absorbing the wisdom of the class. This set her apart. She was a separate category all by herself. When I saw this, I realized that this “separateness” meant she fit anywhere and everywhere.
She was a totally free spirit.
How did this happen? She saw through the illusions and took a chance on knowledge, peace, and, finally, liberation!
But Elizabeth didn’t travel alone. Her companions and friends supported her. Her experiences supported her without controlling her. Her healing skills became symbols of power.
When the rest of us were afraid to move forward using our new skills, Elizabeth saw that the new things she learned represented possibilities and opportunities, even in new learning territory and difficult chapters.
Elizabeth’s fool energy stood for her inner spiritual freedom that allowed her to enjoy her new skills, accomplishments, and avoid entrapment.
If Elizabeth was afraid of unexpected surprises along the way, she never let any of us know. Her confidence and idealism seemed to allow her to be ready for everything.
When the class ended, Elizabeth embarked on the next leg of her journey. She danced along to her career unafraid of surprises which might be on their way. She went job hunting, carrying her ubiquitous bag which I felt was certainly filled with magical opportunities.
Time passed.
The last time I spoke with Elizabeth, she admitted that she had had several jobs before she found the best opportunity. Her confidence and idealism carried her through to the best place waiting for her.
Elizabeth and her healing embraced the world and all it had to offer. For sure Elizabeth is still out there, living the “Fool” life. She calls on us to listen to the child inside, to follow our instincts.
Was Elizabeth always right? Of course not. Do we think we understand what leads her on? No. Her “fool”ish inner core led us on.
Thank you Elizabeth, for your inspiration. Sometimes, I think you were never real. But, in the end, I know you were. All of us have a “fool” in our lives. We just need to recognize this when we see it.
You have a one-way ticket to a long-term spiritual journey which guides you a you travel from The Magician to The World.
Along the way, you will ask the big questions here: What is the meaning of life? What is your purpose?
Whatever happens or doesn’t happen, you can feel as if the answers are waiting for you. All you have to do is find them.
Celebrate this new normal.
FOCUS IN
When you meet up with The Fool, he invites you on a journey of a lifetime and for a lifetime. This experience calls for a celebration. You are embarking on your own personal spiritual journey which unlocks spiritual secrets for you.
Pick up the phone and schedule an appointment with a food reflexologist!
MEDITATION
Find a quiet, safe, and comfortable space for your meditation.
If you want, light a candle, burn incense, or turn on healing music.
Get comfortable now. Sit or lie with your spine straight. Your goal is to be comfortable enough to be unaware of your body.
Begin breathing comfortably now. Take a deep breath. Hold it for a moment. Release it. See and feel tension leave you with each in or out breath.
Take a deep breath – Hold it for a moment. Release it. See the tension leave.
Your inbreaths bring positive feelings, calm, and peace. Your outbreaths release tension, stress, negativity. Continue this breathing pattern for a few moments until you feel calm.
You notice now that you are in a parklike setting surrounded by trees, shrubbery, and plants. You see a rose bush nearby. It has a white rose bloom.
You are seated on a bench with a small dog curled up at your feet.
You look around and see that the sun is shining. The sky is a clear blue. The temperature feels comfortable.
You see snow capped mountains off in the distance.
Looking closely around the bench, you see that you are in a clearing in a forest. You see several paths leading around your bench. You realize that they are each an invitation for you.
You know that it is time for you to choose the path most attractive for you. You know that each of these paths offers a success.
You walk now to the path which you know is the one waiting for you. You know that this path is yours.
You look around and know it is time to return to your day now. You return to your bench, take a last look at the scene and return to your breathing.
You return now to the space where you found your comfortable meditation space. You know you can return to the bench, the white rose, the snow-capped mountain, and the path whenever you want.
You may decide to journal this moment to take notes for future notes.
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Creating as an Expression of Love
When the Empress reveals herself in a spread, the situation is full of promise and potential. Abundance is a possibility with marriage, motherhood, material gain, writing, music, creating a home, and more.
The Empress in a Tarot spread is important for anyone looking to get pregnant, foster a child, adopt a child, or seek a surrogate. This energy applies successfully to projects dealing with nurturing. This also applies to any project with creative energy and to anyone creating from the soul level.
This is a time of renewal. To make the most of your situation, plan new ideas for the future. Enjoy your creativity and make the most of your situation and abilities.
The Empress supports abundance on a material an an emotional level.
The Empress creates an environment where you can develop your own individual potential. She enables you to make the right decisions.
The message of The Empress is loud and clear: Nurturing and caregiving are essential to heal. She is the foundation of the most significant relationship in your life. This impacts all other relationships.
The Empress has all the tickets – beauty, creativity, passion. An ultimate woman in your maternal role, she is the symbol of the maid, mother, and crone. The Empress loves life unconditionally.
With The Empress, you get up close and personal with a person who nurtured something to fruition. She is at peace with herself.
The Empress uses the same energy to create a new project: a book, a TV show, a job, hobby, or anything else creative.
Plan for the future using your creative talents. Make the most of your situation and your abilities. Incorporate abundance – both materially and emotionally. Create a situation where you develop your own individual potential and make the right contribution
STORY
Rita lived in the Saugerties/Palenville area of the New York Hudson Valley before Hurricane Irene cost her everything. One day her life was normal and the next day she was homeless with nothing.
A friend we both knew, Lorene, found Rita a worn-out pickup somewhere. The owner couldn’t sell it or even give it away so Lorene got it for Rita.
Until I looked closely, I didn’t even know what color it was. I knew what color the tires were, though: slick and bald.
Rita got the pickup and the key that went with it. She put it in the ignition, turned it and the motor came to life. When the engine turned over and got into gear, Rita became The Empress.
It got her to the gas station. Hurrah!
She began her new career doing anything anybody needed to have done for $10 an hour and lunch. Rita cleaned out flooded houses and sheds and then hauled the trash to the dump. She used her computer skills when someone needed administrative work. She nurtured her way from assignment to assignment daily.
Rita’s “professional attire” came from the free store at Family of Woodstock.
She rented a room in somebody’s house and was finally no longer sleeping in the pickup.
When she worked in Woodstock on Wednesdays, Rita shopped at the pantry.
And, I will say this about Rita, she never once grumbled. Rita was a creative force working for harmony wherever she went each day. With a smile on her face, she acted as if the pantry food was the best she had ever eaten. And never, not even once, did she complain about the ancient jalopy rig she drove around.
As far as I could tell, she never lost hope. Without hope, I don’t think she would have made it to the other side – wherever that was. This hope made her a symbol of abundance.
For my part, I never asked her how she got the rig repaired and I never even looked near where the inspection sticker belonged.
Truthfully, Rita was no different from the rest of us after Hurricane Irene. She had to figure out how much of her past she could rebuild. And she had to figure out how much of the past she was simply going to close the door on as she moved into the future.
Beyond her material possessions, Rita gave up everything standing in the way of her success. She gave up her rear vision. Looking back into her past simply didn’t happen so she gave up bitterness and seeing wrong. This means she gave up waiting and putting off something because the stars and planets weren’t properly aligned. She gave up criticism, self-criticism included.
Rita was the right person in the right place in the right job to unfold her path. She lived each day as if the blessings were all around her and all she had to do was open her eyes a little wider.
Daily, she risked whatever was necessary to rebuild her life. Rita embraced the future while renouncing the past. She never quit.
Rita was the poster girl for us all. She lived each day with meaning, even in the worst situation and under the most inhumane condition.
FOCUS IN
This is a time of creative projects with profound healing and blessings. Nourish your body and soul with luxurious self-care. OR, climb a tree, or ride a carousel! Do whatever connects you with your Mother-God.
MEDITATION
Select a quiet, safe, secluded place to experience this meditation. Make yourself comfortable. This may include sitting in a comfortable chair, or resting on a pallet on the floor.
If it feels appropriate, light a candle, turn on some selected healing music, place a a favorite stone nearby.
Focus on your breathing now. Inhaling, you breathe in calm energy. As you exhale, breathe out negative energy. Continue to inhale calm energy and exhale negative energy for a few minutes as you transform you breathing into relaxation and calm.
As you close your eyes, visualize yourself walking along a smooth path. See yourself carrying suitcases, tote bags, briefcases, and other assorted packages. You feel tired and your muscles ache.
You carry your bags and luggage to an outdoor area.
As you set them down, you notice the beautiful blue sky above you. You see several puffy clouds in different sizes and shapes.
After a few moments, you notice you are feeling better. You think about the things in your baggage and packages.
You see that slowly, carefully, the baggage and packages and their contents disappear.
As this luggage, baggage, and packages and their contents disappear, you feel lighter, calmer, and freer.
The sun in the sky is moving low into the sky. The bright blue gives way to oranges, pinks, and purples.
You are aware how much calmer and more positive you are after you release these bags and their contents.
You pause for a few moments and then you stretch your arms, legs, and spine. You feel the oxygen enter your muscles. You stretch, bend, and rotate your legs.
Your arm and back muscles stretch as you move them overhead and back. You feel as if your muscles are breathing.
Soon, every muscle in your body feels refreshed from oxygen. While stretching and bending your muscles, you take in fresh air which relaxes your body and mind.
Slowly, your realize that your heavy burdens are disappearing. The release of these bags and packages give insight into how much better you feel without this weight and these issues.
You feel healed.
You are now ready to move forward as you journey down your path.
You are relaxed as you wiggle your legs, feet and toes, your arms, hands, and fingers.
You are now ready to explore promise, renewal, and plan for the future.
You are ready to develop your potential.
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