A simple seeker was lost in thought. What thought? She was meditating on The Fool, the Tarot’s anti-hero, or so he seems to be, at least as he begins his journey through life. He isn’t even given a number, unless Zero can be considered as such. Like herself, or as she once was, he seems to be full of high hopes and confidence. But, again, as she once was.
“How are you any different, now?”
“I don’t quite fit the picture any more, if I ever did.”
“In what way?”
“The Fool, at the beginning of his journey, has no real life experience, and is totally unaware of immediate dangers, let alone those that are waiting for him, somewhere down the line. He’s lost in thought, enjoying the perfume of the rose that he’s holding in his hand. He doesn’t see the cliff that he’s about to step off, into high altitude. Even his small four-legged companion seems unable to warn him. But, perhaps we were all innocent at some time in our past.”
“What would it look like?”
“The Fool, I guess.”
“Yes, and yet, as the Tarot’s Fool will discover through life experience, innocence is a beginning – the only possible beginning of our life’s journey, our mission to discover who and what we each are.”
“Only a beginning?”
“Yes, but an important one.”
“In the sense that we have to start somewhere?”
“Yes.”
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A simple seeker’s note to herself
What did I learn from Spirit’s thoughts about a beginning and innocence?
“Perhaps I was trying to help you to understand that life experiences are as lessons. We learn something from everything that we experience, or we might.”
“How can we know if we’ve learned from them?”
“We?”
“Okay, me. How can I know if I’ve learned from my life experiences?”
“Which life experiences?”
“Any of them.”
“Perhaps you need to choose which life experiences need to be reflected or meditated upon, to protect yourself from repeating them, if they were unpleasant, and to find a way to repeat them if they seemed to be pleasing.”
“To try and learn from my mistakes?”
“Yes, and to try to attract more of those experiences that seemed to have a positive outcome.”
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Simple Seekers 