0. The Fool
Beginning a journey from ignorance to wisdom
Welcome to negative capability, a weekly journaling prompt intended to encourage deliberate thinking in order to cultivate joy, emailed to my ì ˆì¹œ every Sunday.
Last week, I wrote about my Year of the Hierophant for my birthday, in which I meditated on the meaning of a card and what it means for me.
To quote myself:
The Hierophant was also known as the Teacher of Wisdom, and can also represent a mentor figure. A guru, a sage, or a Merlin, if you will. In early life, the Hierophant can be shorthanded to early education, to the time in life when you were learning about the world outside your home. And as I am now closer to crone years than child, I suppose this card means that I am to fulfill a sort of teacher position in my 39th year of existence. And that makes sense in the context of the fact that I am an author of young adult books, but perhaps also because I have been feeling the call to teach and share my knowledge with people again.
So, as promised, this week I will start with the Major Arcana, and with the Fool, the protagonist of our tarot narrative.