The Tarot Cure

In this one I explore what it means for the fool to be "high", making a distinction between The Natural Fool (symbolised by the pooch at their side) and the Fabricated Fool who is just about to step off the edge of a thought into the abyss. 

I present five fools, both ancient as well as modern, so that we might together play the guessing game we end up playing with ourselves and others most of the time anyway: Good/Upright Fool vs. Bad/Reversed Fool. You decide.  L'chaim! 

What the Fool can teach us about gravity: i.e. the ups and downs of life.

We learn about Henry Patenson, Sir Thomas More's family fool, and how the Fool archetype (as well as those who embody it) present a way of being in the world that is candid, truth-seeking, but also deeply playful. "The ‘trickster’ figure that anthropologists have identified in ancient myths and legends, the chaos-makers and sower of discord, who frighten the hell out of us, but also appeal in thei...

We meet one of the earliest images of the Fool archetype -the bagpipe-playing, Sola Busca Fool (1490) - and discover how this medieval loser or "zero", asks questions of us and our place in the world that we are perhaps only now starting to comprehend. "The fool, the so-called insane creature, just like that anxiety provoking number or anti-number zero is a kind of provocation to everything within...

What my friends Jackie and Guy (circa 1987) taught me about Eros.