The Fool
K. Matthew Bearden
Why is the Fool dressed so outrageously? Why is he wearing a backpack?
What is the significance of the dog? Why is he about to go over the edge of a cliff? Why is he surrounded by
mountains? What is the significance of the small stream in the distance?
The man who knows everything
knows nothing.
The man who loses everything
gains the world.
Chose your path wisely.
You do not have to follow the road of those who came before
you.
Let go of all preconception.
Keep an open mind.
A new cycle begins.
And you must divest yourself of old ways of doing things.
Be individual!
Be unique!
Be innovative!
This is you before you were born
When
you created your destiny map.
This is also
you at the start of a new time.
Above all
else, do your own thing.
Try to do
something different as early as today.
Ignore
what others tell you you should do.
And enjoy
the freedom of a child.
Your
path will not be easy,
But no one's ever
is.
Remember not to allow yourself to be
restricted.
For in this moment alone, is
perfect freedom.
Push the envelope,
Yet come to your decisions carefully.
You might want to make a recording of this so you don't need to memorize it. Decide on two symbols that
represent power to you. Perform any banishing/protective ritual you are comfortable with. Use your preferred
method of trance induction.
Shift your consciousness so your awareness is outside your body. Let time
begin to move backwards. See yourself performing your banishing. See yourself doing what you did today before
you created sacred space. See yourself doing what you were doing this morning. Now go back to last night.
Go back just like a video tape rewinding. Make especially sure you are aware of important events. Go back to
last month. Go to last year. All the while, take a moment to pause at life changing events or decisions.
Go back to your childhood. Go back to your first memory. This is especially important because the first memory
will affect the rest of your life. For instance you may remember rolling around in the mud and getting your new shirt
dirty, then your mother had to clean if up for you and you expected her to do so. That would tell you about your style of
life right now and how you make your decisions and deal with your problems. In this case, what that memory would
mean for you is that you have a tendency to make a mess out of things then expect others to clean it up for you (figuratively).
Now see yourself before your first memory. You are a toddler. You are a baby, unable to care for your own needs.
Experience that sense of helplessness for a moment. See yourself being born in reverse.
Imagine what the first thing you were aware of when life begin immediately after birth...bright lights, strange loud sounds,
strange creatures, and the absence of your mother's heart beat. Imagine yourself going back up the birth canal.
It is a painful and terribly upsetting experience. Now you are in your mother's womb. What are you
feeling at this point? Do you feel safe and secure? Or are you afraid in the seemingly never ending fetal darkness?
As you move back, you will discover that your soul has the ability to move in and out of the fetus at will. The smaller
you get, the easier this is to do. Notice if you have a tendency to stay in your developing body or float around
outside it in spirit form. See yourself develop in reverse. We all start out as female. It is only the
introduction of the 'y' chromosome later in fetal development that creates maleness.
Now see your mother's unfertilized egg with millions of sperm rushing toward it. At this point you have no physical
existence, but your spirit is waiting for the right couple to create an energy vortex through the right act. This allows
you to be drawn into the womb. Now see yourself as you were without physical form. What does your
spirit look like? It can look like anything it wants. Does it look like the physical you? What kinds of
colors surround it? Take note as to what you look like. Now see yourself sitting down with a piece of paper before
you. This is your "contract" for this life. It contains all the karmic experiences you need to go
through to learn. Now take a look and see if you can read any of it and if some circumstances can be changed
(So the circumstances surrounding your learning still go on, but you won't have to get knocked over the head to learn
them.). [pause.] Now let time start to move forward again. Come to the place where the sperm cells are
approaching the egg. The egg has one of the symbols of power you have chosen on it. One sperm is ahead of
the others. On its head is your other symbol of power. See it penetrate the egg generating a great explosion
of power. As your fetus develops, become aware that one symbol is on your third chakra and the other on your sixth.
You were born a child of power. These symbols and the power they represent will be with you for your entire life.
Go forward through the process of life, noting the symbols all the while. See yourself and pay special attention
to the life changing events. At each event, think of how you could have handled it differently or better as the symbols
grow. Know that you have power over your own life. You can't make the bad things go away, but by visualizing
alternatives, you can change your karma. Visualize yourself all the way back to where you are now. See the symbols
on your solar plexus and third eye chakras. You have power to control your life. You have power to change
your karma. You have the power to change this reality. You have the power to do many things--including manifesting
miracles. Come out of trance. Banish again. And leave your temple knowing that for that day and all others,
you are a child of power.
K. Matthew Bearden is an Adept within the Fellowship of Isis. He was ordained into the FOI
priesthood by FOI co-founder Olivia Robertson. He co-heads the Iseum of Apollo and Artemis with Rt. Rev. Michael Artonn
Starsheen. Matthew is the founder and head of the Iseum of Aradia, and Priest Hierophant of the Lyceum of Hathor of the
Ten Houses. More information about the work of this iseum and lyceum can be found here: www.geocities.com/iseumaradia Matthew is also a Reiki Master and TCBA Certified Tarot Consultant. You
may learn more about Matthew's work as a Tarot Reader and Reiki healer here:
www.geocities.com/wwdivinations E-mail: wunjowolf@gmail.com There is a new inclusive site that has links to all 3
of Matthew's groups:
He
owns the following online discussion groups:
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