The Fool
This is a tarot card in the Ryder-Waite deck. It is of the ‘Major Arcana’ and its number is “0″. Of course, as it says, it’s called “The Fool”.
Look at the picture. The Fool is walking in a land of sunshine with companionship, enraptured by the beauty of the day and within the fragrance of the flower. Nothing but a knapsack to call his own on his shoulder. Walking blissfully upon his path…
Getting ready to walk right off what looks like the edge of a cliff.
I *know* what the Fool knows. I am a Complete Idiot, as represented by the “0″, as in coming full circle. I, too, have a knapsack and so does everyone else. Inside this knapsack, are the values I carry with me wherever I go. Only instead of calling mine a”knapsack”, I call it my “Cosmic cosmetic case”.
I can call upon it whenever I desire to makeup my Mind.
Which is why the Fool is undisturbed, especially in the face of any possible *crisis*, as represented by the cliff.
“Holy Zit!”
Cosmic cosmetic to the rescue!
I AM (fill in the blank).
With whatever Divine quality, whatever Divine Attribute, Essence, Idea, Radiance, etc., that I find myself feeling lacking in at that moment.
I Am Beloved.
I Am Blessed.
I Am asking to see the Love in this situation.
I Am Love.
I Am Compassion.
I Am Understanding.
I Am Tolerant.
I Am Acceptance.
I Am Mercy.
I Am Peace.
I Am Tranquility.
I Am Harmony.
I Am Beauty.
I Am Lovable.
I Am Adorable.
I Am Tolerated.
I Am Accepted.
I Am Forgiven.
I Am Free.
I Am That I Am.
I Am the Divine Feminine.
I Am Pure Love.
I Am the Immaculate Concept.
I Am the Holy Grail.
I Am calling upon the Law of Divine Love for myself and for all Mankind, for all our mistakes, for all our misunderstandings, for all our problems, for all our discord, for all our conflict, for all the mis-qualified energy of our human consciousness.
Our words are cups, that we can fill with whatever quality we choose.
My Cosmic Cosmetic Case…
I use to make-up my Mind.
Sue Ann Edwards
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September 10th, 2008 - 7:47 pm
The trick is to be a master of concepts and not a slave of concepts. To avoid being dominated by meanings is the trick. Given that all experience is symbolic by nature, if you can avoid being dominated by meanings, you are free.
Many things we think good have connotations we may not like. For example, we want to be brave, but don’t want to sacrifice. Or we are ready to sacrifice, but not ready embrace something, thinking that sacrifice always must mean getting rid of something desired and not necessarily taking on something undesired.
For an example of connotations, think of these:
Being loved means demands or desires will be placed on you. If nothing else, there is a demand or a desire that you at least continue to exist, even if you don’t want to.
Being the holy grail means that one has to preserve oneself, since if you lose oneself, you lose the holy grail.
Being lovable means not being able to speak harsh words, or criticism even if you want to or see it as key.
Being free means you can’t leave it completely up to others to decide anything for you. This concern can limit one’s ability to relax fully.
If you are a beauty, there is a connotation that everyone should adore you, and this places a burden on other people’s behavior. This burden then transfers back to you anyway, as people either begin to resent your beauty because they find adoration to be needless or taxing or begin to flatter you or otherwise take any kind of fixated stance regarding it. And then should you change your expression even a little, they may not find you beautiful anymore. That’s because beauty along with ugliness are conditional attributes. If beauty doesn’t oppose anything it’s not beauty at all. It’s not anything in particular.
And so on.
Basically, things and ideas we think are good have a cost. They tie us down as much as they bring pleasure. Things we don’t like have hidden benefits too. This doesn’t mean that good is bad and bad is good. Exercising your own judgment is still important, but it’s important to know that things are never totally one sided, or else, a big disappointment is sure to occur.
Do you drive the car or does the car drive you?
Do you possess your possessions or are you possessed by your possessions?
As I see it, it can go either way very quickly. Attributes that set us free one day can bind us the next. Our desires know no limit, and so, any kind of formulaic advise will always fall short in the long run, however useful it can be in the near term.
We don’t like being bound by conditions, but at the same time, unconditional space is boring as well and is a condition in its own right (the condition being that there may not be any conditions expressed or present there). It’s possible to relax in the middle of all that and to have fun without fear, but it’s not that easy, because we have a lot of ideas about who we are and what we can and cannot do.
September 10th, 2008 - 9:49 pm
Dearest {{tealeaf}},
There’s a muck of misunderstanding in your ideas and beliefs. Like this one:
“Being free means you can’t leave it completely up to others to decide anything for you. This concern can limit one’s ability to relax fully.”
Leaving it up to others to decide for us is what I call a Complete DENIAL of both Accountability and Responsibility for our own Freewill. Too lazy and slothful to do our own thinking and deciding. The burden of choice being too heavy for us to bear. Our own Life not worth our own effort. A complete cop out on Life.
And with it usually comes a bunch of mewling and whining about being “victims”. When it is not Love that we extend and are sowing but need. Need is not Love but a LACK of it. And much of what you have shared is based upon this neediness and not Love. That is why it had the effects it did.
If I put a chocolate cake in my oven it is not going to magically transform itself into a cherry pie just because I wish it.
Other people are our mirrors. We will attract into our lives, those just like us. If we are limited in acceptance and compassion for ourselves, so will they be. If I desire to be accept-ed, I must genuinely BE accept-ing.
All conditions do is reveal and express our lacks and limits in spiritual substance and quality of character and that’s about it.
“Secure” is a STATE OF MIND. Feelings of “insecure” indicate the present of psychological issues. It isn’t as if we all haven’t had them. It’s simply more loving if we start dealing with them rather then trying to run away into Denial.
We cannot BE Sovereign or a Master of our Self, so long as we accept ANY outside authority over the contents of our Hearts and Minds.
It’s a lot more fun living INside my Ever Loving Mind then it ever was living outside of it.
Peace is a Response TO Reality and not a Condition OF it.
And we all share this Response-ability.
Every example you shared, is an example of emotional neediness and manipulation. And this need, is a result of the ideas entertained in our heads. If we believe in ideas that are not nurturing, then we will be left with feelings of need. Where you are coming from, this ‘need’ is used as a right to make demands upon others, that others must comply with in order for someone else to ‘feel’ loved. This is *BS*.
I will be Honest with you because I think you deserve that Respect. I REFUSE, simply downright refuse, to be made the scapegoat, for other people’s feelings. My feelings are mine and yours are yours and his are his, etc. I CANNOT be manipulated because I do not claim any false powers over others. If others choose to deny their power over their own emotional and mental states that is a free choice. But costs and consequences come with that choice and are the responsibility of the chooser, too.
“Liberty” is freedom of choice while accepting all the costs of the consequences. “License” is the demand for freedom of choice while DENYING all the costs and consequences. What you have been describing is “license”, not “liberty”, as the costs and consequences of being psychologically screwed up are not being claimed.
I’ve put a *page* up for you, as many of your ideas were addressed in it. It is called “self”. There is a tab on the top of my blog to go to it. Or you may click this link here:
http://sueannedwards.wordpress.com/self/
September 15th, 2008 - 2:41 pm
You always come up with the unexpected, Sue Ann! The word ‘fool’ usually has negative connotations – and this guy is about to walk of the edge of a cliff. I hesitate to use the word ‘bad’, but surely that is inconvenient, to say the least?
I fully accept that a sense of our own worth allows us to take whatever crises the world throws at us in our stride, but surely a part of that is *dealing* with those crises? This guy is off in his own thoughts, not paying attention to what is happening in the moment. He’s about to get pulverized.
Or have I misread the card? Can we wind it on a few frames? Does he stop at the edge of the cliff to admire the view? Maybe lay out some things for a picnic? But in that case, surely the card would be ‘wise man’ rather than ‘fool’?
September 15th, 2008 - 10:47 pm
I am reminded of a conversation we had a while past. It was about the subtle differences between assurance and insurance. The Fool goes without insurance because he has Self Assurance. Notice the capital “S”. This is the *knowing* and with it the *assurance* of his Divinity.
I wrote that the cliff represented *crisis*. For in all these cards are symbols meaning something far deeper then whatever is pictured. He’s not really walking off the edge of a cliff, like a clueless moron. The cliff is symbolic, just like in the joke about the guy hanging off the edge of a cliff who calls out to God to help him. God’s says just let go, he’ll be caught. Then the guy asks, “Is there anybody else out there?”
It was a year ago to the day that I began my ‘visitations’ to the Medical Center. After 4 operations in less then 6 months and me a year past the 1st, I made it through that *crisis*. And my attitude and vision as I did, is journaled *here* and in the hearts and minds of my friends.
Winter storm catastrophe included.
The worst *crisis* I had to deal with today was in the form of my daughter’s online school. Today was the 1st day of school. They had an all school online assembly. And the 1st thing all the kids learned was they if they all cooperated together and waved the little hand icon, they crashed the school’s server.
And I was alive to witness it.
Which most likely I wouldn’t have been, without those 4 surgeries.
Maybe pondering the concepts of “eternal” and “immortal” might help? One is Divine; the other a denial of it.
I *know* {{{Simon}}}…it’s hard for me to convey. It’s not a matter of ‘faith’ for me anymore. Faith is belief in things unknown. Once we *know* them, it’s not a matter of Faith anymore. It’s the nature of our Reality.
I *know* we fear. I also *know* what we fear and why. And I *know* it’s nothing more substantial then a shift in perspective that makes all our fears go *poof*, just like magic. And it is this “I Am”. The more we practice it, the more adept we become in its practical applications.
It’s the actual conscious experience of the story of the footprints in the sand. You know the ones. The man’s conversation with the ‘Lord’ was one in which he was told the ‘Lord’ had always been his constant companion and looking back, sure enough, there were two sets of foot prints in the sand.
But he also noticed there were times when only one set of footprints could been seen. “Lord, these were the toughest periods of my Life, why did you leave me then, of all times?”, he asks.
And the Lord answered, “Those were the times I carried you.”
The recognition and realization of this Divine I Am Presence on an intimate and individual level is an experience both beyond imagination and bliss. It’s one that is each of our “Destiny” in Eternity. And one that has now opened up as a potential and possibility for our Mass Consciousness for the VERY FIRST TIME in history.
Jesus went into the cave, in the rocks. The rocks are symbols of the path of Initiation. Along that Path, we let go of our attachments of our form nature. A SYMBOLIC ‘death’. Same as is happening now in our financial markets.
Look at the concept of “security”?
How many of us have attached that feeling to wealth or access to it? Look “secure” to you?
What happened to the ‘value’ of the houses? What happened the ‘value’ of the investment portfolios supposedly backed by the ‘value’ of the houses?
Stock market dropped over 500 points today. Eeeeeuuuuu. I bet that *hurt*. Wonder how much supposed wealth that translated into? Wealth in funny money and only a paper illusion, since it was only based on if the stock HAD BEEN SOLD and profits realized.
Where did all that ’security’ go?
“Now we see it, now we don’t.”
What happened to all that energy invested in “secure”? I guess it wasn’t so “secure” was it?
Was it Real or was it an illusion all the time and us, just experiencing disillusionment at last?
March 28th, 2009 - 2:01 pm
Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo
March 30th, 2009 - 5:19 pm
Hello right back Raiul!
Honestly, I find nothing for you to apologize for, when it comes to your English. It sure looks like you know what you are doing on this end!
I have enough trouble keeping my thoughts in order in one language,much less two or three or more! So you have my admiration!!!!!!
Welcome,welcome!
April 7th, 2009 - 3:33 pm
Hi !!! ^_^
I am Piter Kokoniz. Just want to tell, that I like your blog very much!
And want to ask you: will you continue to post in this blog in future?
Sorry for my bad english:)
Tnx!
Piter Kokoniz, from Latvia
April 9th, 2009 - 10:10 am
Greetings Piter!
{{{hug}}}
Please, please, please DON’T apologize for “bad” English! You’re doing a LOT better then I can do, simply expanding beyond your native tongue. You have my admiration already!
Yes, I will be posting on this blog in the future. I have been taking a rest from it, since about November. I have had other things that have required my attention.
In addition to my blog, I am putting up a website, that should make it easier to find different subjects and discussions.
If I know what people desire to read about, it makes it easier for me, so please feel free to post any questions or comments anytime.
Welcome welcome!
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