2/10/2024 #WritingBreak"The Way" By Serenity Anne LumbardI've been sharing a poem I wrote while I've been out and about the last couple of months and so I decided to share it with you! I'm working on a video that will visualize what I have in mind for it, but for now...check out the spoken version. If you noticed my use of "The Fool" card from the Tarot in the video; below is a really great description to understand the card and it's meaning: "Here is the immortal mortal, invincibility. The magician has learned all his lessons. Complete lack of fear, through innate knowledge of death. Understanding of death, both as illusion and hard reality, that at birth we begin to die and at death we begin to live. Here is complete balance, centered awareness. Transcendent of space/time. To earthly knowledge has been added much of the knowledge beyond the veil and the ability to see beyond earthly duality while living in it. The ultimate optimist, appears very lucky to onlookers and is indeed charmed. There is much good humor in all things. Unmitigated joy, walking on air as here is the ability to see the positive lesson inherent in any duality with man’s will. The fool in knowing that he knows, also knows what he does not know. His reaction is “Oh, but of course!” When opposites reveal themselves to be but two sides of the one – the same, whenever we discover the surprise in what was before so hard to see – there is a relief, a lightening of the spirit that comes with the enlightening of the mind." -Crystal Clear Reflections The Fool is represented by the number 0. Like a egg that is unhatched containing so much life that's ready to burst onto the scene; whatever scene that may be, of their "next" life. The essence of The Fool is new beginnings, to have the courage to begin again with no evidence of anything working out yet knowing just as much there is just as much probability that it will. It's to learn from the past, bring the wisdom with you, and walk into the unknown with a happy and hopeful heart that's willing to step by step, begin again. The Fool is a little like a new baby but one with the mind of someone that has taken their prior experiences, done the work of self inquiry and examination of self/others/environments, and then turned it into wisdom.
It's a tight rope. Everything is new. Yet you carry with you much wisdom. While you feel you are leaving so much behind. But you know you have to keep going. It's bravery in action all wrapped up in a usually silly looking person that people are gawking at. Or laughing at. Or making up rumours about or gossiping about. Or playing judge, jury, and executioner about like they have the credentials be a judge of anyone in the first place. Unless of course they do have the credentials to be a judge and in that case scratch what I just said, stand up straight and pay attention. After that? Be The Fool. Every single one of us has access to this essence as many times as we want, need, or in some cases feel as if we are forced to. The courage it takes to begin again is born from a genuine love of self, without that you wouldn't keep going. It's from a hope that springs eternal in you that refuses to die. It always seems to roar back to life bigger and brighter than before time and time again. The courage is from a faith in a future you can't see. It's like you are walking into a dark forest alone but you know there is nothing for you to fear although you yourself consider you might be mad for even thinking that. You know by now there is nothing to life but love anyway; no matter however anyone tries to play it or convince you of otherwise. Of course there is darkness, we need it. I love it too. It's not meant to stay in, just to take trips to. Take a trip to the underworld where scorpionic transformation occurs more readily than by standing in the sun. It's the darkness feeds our light. Just don't hang out too long, make sure you got a round trip ticket. It all comes down to this. You have a red, hot, burning ember of a lust for your life that no one has been able to to take from you, not even yourself. A flower that refuses to die. This is what it takes to begin again. The Fool knows how beautiful life CAN BE, because The Fool already sees how beautiful life IS. Comments are closed.
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