New Tarot Meaning

One of the principle archetypal messages of the old style western tarot can be found in the tarot card The Fool. Typically, the card shows an individual soul, a “fool,” about to step of into incarnation. As this old story from the old archetypal book is told, The Fool is stepping away from source (i.e., the sun) and off the cliff into a physical body below. In this card, The Fool has a mission which is (depending upon your location in the hierarchies of this world) variously, to “learn,” to grow, to evolve, to strengthen, to soften, to attain salvation, to develop, to purify, to become enlightened, to become good, to clear karma, to prove worthiness in the eyes of god or authority, etc. You start off as the royal idiot, the untamed wild man, the insensate fool and only later, if you are lucky, if you pay your dues, if you pass “Judgement” are you able to graduate and/or attain “salvation.”

Superficially, these all seem like different goals but in reality they are all the same. The goal of incarnation, the single purpose for your existence, is for you to work to improve yourself in some way. It might hurt, and you may have to work until all the energy is sucked out of you and you die, but you got to do what you got to do and you got to work to attain. Or, at least, that’s what this old book archetype says.

Ask yourself what is the purpose of your life on this earth and you are invariably drawn to this archetype of purpose.

You’re here to fix something about yourself.

You’re here to improve and evolve.

You’re here to prove yourself worthy of salvation.

You are here to work on something.

Now, contrary to this old world purpose we have, in the Halo/Sharp card, the Joyful archetype. In this card we still see an individual soul or monad stepping into incarnation, but this time the soul is fully empowered (i.e., all chakras activated), fully awakened, and fully connected to source. Here, we see the beginning of a different story, a new story in a new book. In this card the soul (that’s you) follows the golden road into incarnation, joyfully anticipating the experiences that it will manifest, blissful in the awareness of its divinity, and ecstatic at the positive and exciting experiences that await it. In the story that begins here you will find neither justification of suffering nor expectation of woe.  On the contrary, when we have collectively cleared the old archetypes and manifested a new world, only good things await the joyfully incarnating monad.

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