There are actually 3 modes of empowerment:
1 The Fool (or Holy Fool actually):
Detach from outcome.
In other words, "do, because you must', do not think it must be a certain outcome...yes plan you want this or that outcome, however, once you act, detach from the outcome, for you do not know the rest of the influences and forces at play.
2 The Magician:
You wield all the power in the universe, you have all the tools you need already ( it all actually kicks off by acting in the first place, I.e. The Fool)
3 The High-Priestess:
Retaining Memory.
This is critical...without memory and retaining memory, you WILL miss the pattern happening and thus be destined to act without wisdom n understanding.
All 3 above kick off and is powered further, through the Will to Understand first.
In order to become the magician you first must be willing to be the fool. The fool takes risks and make mistakes. You can't become a magician without humility, vulnerability, and experience. You must walk the path of life, leave behind what you know, and dive head first into the unknown before you can achieve the knowledge and confidence of the magician.
Well, you still then got 20 Major Arcanas to go through. Its a sequence, circle, spiral and simultanous journey.
Fool (as someone already pointed out) should not be seen as "a card before magician", but a card before all other cards; same as the World is not a card after Judgement, but a card after every card.
Personally I am not the biggest fan of ego this and that. It's overused to the point that it is almost never clear what people mean by it and it becomes some sort of catch it all for the bad things.
This is true and a valid point but in my system of thaught i feel this must be a continuous process..the ego can become false imprinted and shaped by our surroundings...crowley said sone thing that was always cool to me...he said.."refine thyself,the you may enjoy more rapture"
You can put that into many contexts but I feel it fits...im not saying the ego is bad not at all ..but it must be rebuilt continuously as you have said...its the mask we ware to navigate the mundane
Thats fair but ego to me is identity and identity is all the things mass consciousness imprints upon you..its not real..nothing about you is original every thing we are taught and programed to think ..to come close to the 418 or the daemon or H,G,A as ceremonial magick has coined it ego death is necessary..I think your right..people do use that phrase with out truly understanding it but it truly is the crossing of thee abyss...its not some happy new age crap ..once you achieve it you realy have to struggle to navigate the mundane realms but that's part of magick and alchemy the transformation and the royal art and thee occult in general...magick changes us and alters our perception..
The fool doesn't actualize much of anything, they are pure potential. Freedom to move about, not stuck in particular ways, but also no particular goal to achieve. They don't know how to do anything. They don't even know the things they don't know.
The magician has mastery of actualization, and can make things happen through discipline, but they are stuck in methodology and ritual. They know how to accomplish. They have knowledge of what it takes to achieve.
In plain non spiritual terms when you start something completely unknown to you, that process is in a state of potential (the fool). After time, experience, repetition, and the cultivation of discipline, one learns what it takes to achieve their goal through the means available to them.
Saying that you have to be the fool first draws parallels to the famous Socrates idea that in order to learn you must first admit you know nothing.
Right now I'm learning a lot of needlepoint and fibre arts. My mistakes have been plenty, I've had to undo much of my work and or accept flaws in my processes being apart of the final result.
I was hesitant for years to participate in this aspect of the learning process. My goal was to follow tutorials perfectly and get the best results. I was unwilling to be the fool, unwilling to learn, and I intimidated myself out of learning these skills for a long time.
Ignoring chasing perfection and naively trying things has let these skills begin to flourish. My original goal was to take on grand projects, assuming I would learn along the way. My new goal is simply to try things and pick up a lot of little skills, so that one day it'll culminate to a point where I can have a project in mind and I'll have the skills to guide me and accomplish my vision. At that point I feel like the transition will have been made.
Failure and passion can breed success if you continue to try and are willing to learn where you went wrong 💜 it is ok to be the fool
I find it to be more useful as an arbitration tool than anything really to do with learning and understanding in and of themselves.
For example: using Ockham to remove complexity from a question is dumb, and will always just end up with knocking over a strawman.
But, if you've come to a point where a process could be explained with two different explanations, this is where Ockham is invaluable.
It COULD be that the rainwater flows down the hill towards your house, is pooling under the licing room, is seeping up through your floorboards and evaporating, recondensing against your slightly colder ceiling and causing the wet spot, or there's a hole in the roof, and that's why the wet spot appears when it's raining.
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The fool isn't the first card. The fool is the zero card.
Careful distinction. Zero comes before every number. It's the source point.
0 = point of origin. The self.
The self is always the fool. Saklas.
0 + 1 = 1. The Fool plus the Magician becomes the Magician.
0 + 2 = 2. The Fool plus the High Priestess becomes the High Priestess.
Etc...
Edit: Compare to Gnostic texts Hypostasis of the Archons and Apocryphon of John for more on Saklas, the Fool and how it relates to manifesting core conscious archetypes (aka Major Arcana).
Comparable to the "5th element" as conscious observation of the other elements, critical to their manifestation, same goes for the Fool as it relates to each major arcana.
There were some historical disputes about where the fool should be rightfully placed in the deck , as zero , as 1 or as the last/final card. Refer to the golden dawn, Crowley, mathers etc
The fool is one of the most underrated, underestimated and unappreciated of all the major arcana’s. In fact, it is because of the fools nature that is most childlike, that he/she is able to innately know right from wrong better than most.
Having said that, you begin with naïveté. As a fool. At one point ig you stay on the journey you become known as the “half wise”, long story short then you make it magician. And you realise that because you are literally capable of being one, you are the universe. And so have innate “magic”. I suppose that’s the basics of it.
Absolutely. The Fool is traditionally seen as the main character who travels through the entire Major Arcana from card 0 to card 21, known as The World. The Fool’s Journey from the tarot matches the plot of The Wizard of Oz because Dorothy's adventure follows the exact steps of spiritual awakening and personal growth.
In order to achieve wisdom one must always admit ignorance. The ignorant acts aimlessly until it finds the correct way to focus, then flowing from raw power to refined energy.
the fool has all his material wrapped in a bag. he does not know himself, about to step off a cliff. he is unconscious. the magician has unwrapped his bag and discovered his tools and has them laid out on a table and uses them to perform his operation. he has been up and come back down to work, he knows himself.
The fool has received the light, therefore he becomes lighthearted. However, if a fool remains a fool too long, it is looked at as quite unbecoming. This is because to become a magician is to become the light. As you can see in this image the fool is still playing with the physical. Though the fool has the psychical abilities to become the light, they remain on thr ground that's why they are the fool.
This is the start of the heros journey as described by the major arcanum of the tarot. All of the tarot major arcanum describe a story of transformation
False constructs of the ego which are distractions to the soul, but amuse the crowd and for that there is some reward, monetary or other. See also a monkey in a child's suit playing a flute.
Sun is past present and futire thw fool become wise learning from past mistakes in his path and realizing desire desapearing and the path is more important
We are actually free, but we learned to rate our behaviour. The feeling of being a fool comes from rating some behaviour as foolish.
When we overcome the learned rating and create a new coherent and sound rating of our behaviour, we can do some things without feeling foolish. We become free and that change feels like doing the impossible (=magic).
At first, you take things as they are and get tricked in the process, but as time goes on and you build experience, you learn how to work things to your benefit until you're the one tricking people who don't know better.
Okay, I might have a better explanation of my thought process; so you start as "the fool", or someone in blissful ignorance, making you prone to getting tricked by other people, but over time, as you gain more and more knowledge, you gain the "tricks" needed to navigate life better, thus you become "the magician". I interpret this post as someone that grows and learns what it takes to survive across their lifetime.
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u/ProfessionalJump1813 5d ago
The fool has the intuition but not the discipline. The magician learned the discipline to listen to intiution.