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shibbotech  ·  3224 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do You See Your Life as a Story?

Less a story, more of a koan: it incites within me a great doubt. :P

Really though, it's a somewhat problematic question for me to answer. On one hand, I'm the author of my own mind and decisions, like how I'm writing this out instead of sleeping. On the other, the recounting of past events tends to be done via narrative - you can't convey every single sensory detail of any single past event, so you make a story out of it. In that case, if I am the storyteller, what is my life? Perhaps less a narrative and more an anthology of parable, fable, and vignette. It is a patchwork of events with characters that come and go, and you can construct a "story" using any which set of them.

Or perhaps I'm naught but a fool. Then again, what is the Fool but the start of the journey? Thanks for sharing, lil.





lil  ·  3224 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hi shibbo - The fool is indeed the start of the journey. Have you looked at the major arcana of the Waite tarot as a journey story?

shibbotech  ·  3224 days ago  ·  link  ·  

To a degree, though primarily I've focused on the Fool and Magician. I've also been poking around with a few interpretations of divinatory tarot as well. At the end of the day, though, the symbols are what they are. It's the personal interpretation and ascription that open doors and provoke one's journey.