We gain wisdom from experience. If we are wise about a thing but we have never in this life done it then this is wisdom gained from other lifetimes. For example, I have always know the terrible lure of gambling, and not gone there in this life. We often are not wise about a thing until we suffer the consequences of it. This is why you do not ease the pain of unwise behavior. To protect one from their own consequences even has a name, enabling. Within reason we let them find their own way out. This is why we need freedom. We need to be free to engage life as our soul steers, even unwisely, that we may learn the lessons of that experience. Can you imagine passing this life only to have to return because you failed to find wisdom because of some law, or over-protective, well-meaning person? I no longer call negative experiences Errors. I call them lessons. Think of the...
"When humanity degenerates, and, for the good of all, action, yes, like Lot saw, must ensue, first God sends them knowledge through teachers, dreams, prophecy, in order to open the mind in order to see from a greater perspective and offer an opportunity for us to correct our course. To change. To stop creating suffering. Most of the time humanity laughs these into oblivion." - Anon
When this card shows up in a reading it represents a new adventure. As Significator it implies that the client is in a position of inexperience. As the Crossing card it implies that the client needs to undertake a new path, as they have fallen into stagnation. It represents the spiritual directive - Go forth and make known the unknown. The Major Arcana may also be read as "the Book of Life." In this sense The Fool is the virginal soul seeking rebirth. Virginal not necessarily in that it has never been born before, but in that it has drunk from the waters of forgetfulness, (Ancient writers tell us that to drink was a choice and the wise man would never do so.) and has no memory of past lives to hamper it in this lifetime. In a spread The Fool may also indicate that a would-be child spirit is near the questioner, seeking a chance for rebirth. But why does this card say these thin...
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