The Fool

"Wise in measure should each man be yet wise enough to be the fool." - Heimir from The Northman

The Fool

The zero card

I've been feeling like a fool recently. That might sound like a bad thing, unless you're aware of the symbolic significance of The Fool card.

The Fool is the zero card, the true beginning before the beginning of the 1 card. Simultaneously the beginning and the end, it encompasses all cards as it is a zero, a circle. If you've seen my latest YouTube video, I explain that the circle is everything we know, and even don't know. Nothing is outside the circle and nothing does not exist.

https://youtu.be/b0ZtsUv3QMc?si=5URoJA9AluRFiDA-

The Fool is the manifested idea of the world, potential made manifest. The last Trump card, The Universe is that universe actually made manifest.

He is son of The Absolute. He represents the archetype and characters of the son. Dionysus, son of Zeus. Jesus, son of God.

In classic versions of the card, the fool is seen as carelessly taking a step into the unknown. One foot on the ground but the other in the air almost walking off of a cliff as his gaze is firmly on the sky looking towards his heavenly father.

In Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot deck; which is the one I have, the fool has both feet unfirmly planted in air. Fully letting go. He is touching each 4 corners of the card, meaning he reconciles all opposites, all sides. The very middle of the card is the Sun, placed over his genital area. Which is where creativity comes from, sexual energy controlled and harvested which helps us reconcile all opposites and to create beautiful things.

If you know anything about Dionysian myth, you know that Dionysus is a very contradictory and chaotic character. He is the middle path, the compromise of contradictory things. He is aware that life, his Father includes Every-thing, nothing is to be dismissed, discriminated against.

In many ways, I relate to this character of contradictory things. I am a man of many interests":

I make music; I DJ;

I gym often; I care for my health and diet;

I work in elder care;

I have a deep interest in philosophy and history, the occult, ritual etc.

I have dabbled in exploring psychedelic states;

I love to travel around;

I love sculpting;

I brew mead;

I do occasional photography;

I have several times attempted to create a consistent flow of Youtube videos.

And the list goes on, and it goes on to more things I still want to do.

I want to relearn languages I have forgotten that I used to be good at, I want to become a bee-keeper, keep chickens, eventually own a farm to supply my own food. Visit new countries, learn new languages, meditate and God the list goes on.

The definition of a Renaissance man.

It's not easy to keep balance of all this. To gym consistently, eat healthy consistently, work to make a living, do all the different things I am interested in when I'm interested in them, read books to learn, have fun, keep up with friendships, relationships, family, deal with life issues and most important of all; get rest.

But this is the path of reconciliation, “the path of the cross”. The cross ✝️ is also a symbol of opposites merging in on the middle. Jesus and Dionysus are much more connected than most people think. Both the early Christians and Dionysian cult celebrating in underground catacombs with their sacred wine as the Roman Empire was on their heels after having outlawed both; they most definitely had contact.

If you know me personally, you may know that the deity Dionysus “reached out” to me already last year in fall but it wasn't until the start of this year that I connected deeply with him and included him in the pantheon of Gods I have on my altar. I believe this is helping me with reconciliation and being more relaxed and not stressing too much about not getting one thing done, as long as another thing gets done.

Last year in the spring, I made a Youtube video “stop procrastinating” where I talked about how after a year of thinking about it, I was finally going to start a channel. Then I promised that more music is coming for my Instagram followers. Neither of those things happened, which I felt so bad for for awhile. But now looking back at it, I had no choice. I started DJing again for different events. I also felt terrible about where I was living, so I moved back home to the country side and got a new job. Had to get settled there and so on. I learned new things along the way, I started brewing mead. I did eventually release a new EP. I landed a well paying job in Norway for the summer, where I created my latest video with plans on making more. But I’m also going to be traveling for 2 weeks when i get back in sweden. Then it’ll be time to settle home again and get another job, get back into the routine of work and gymming. So it's entirely possible that i’ll let go of the Youtube vids until there’s time and space for that.

The Chariot has to keep moving, it matters not in which direction when all directions eventually lead to the same place anyway. As long as it's moving and helping the completion of The Great Work (all the cards between The Fool and The Universe). The only thing that is detrimental is when it's all standing still and not going anywhere, when nothing gets done. And stress does that, there has to be balance.

I'm not as hard on myself anymore if I set out to do something and don't end up doing it. As long as I give due to my other creative endeavors and live life. That's it, just live life and enjoy and you'll be fine at the end of the day. Create. Live. Be carefree but with one foot on the ground. But if you do choose to have both feet in the air, make sure you have solar genitals like The Fool. 😉