January 2009
2 posts
Jan 29th
“He bowed his head, and bent his knee Upon the monarch’s silken stool; His...”
– Bartleby.com
Jan 29th
November 2008
8 posts
Nov 19th
“Eventually, he became the popular Greek god of wine and cheer, and wine miracles...”
– http://www.kreweofbacchus.org/html/mythology.htm
Nov 19th
Nov 14th
“Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful...”
– http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Socrates
Nov 14th
Nov 7th
“A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing;...”
– Lord Acton
Nov 7th
Nov 3rd
“Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.”
– Joey Adams
Nov 3rd
October 2008
18 posts
Oct 29th
“Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.”
– African proverb
Oct 29th
Oct 23rd
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Oct 19th
Oct 19th
Tell Me About It
Has the Archetypal Fool inspired you? Drop me a line: ArchetypalFool@gmail.com
Oct 19th
Oct 18th
“The Fool begins at the end of a life-long relationship between a child who...”
– http://www.thefool.ca/story/index.html
Oct 18th
Oct 15th
“The ancients understood the ephemeral and advised their students not to take...”
– “Laughter” from “Everyday Tao” Deng Ming-Dao http://home1.gte.net/uusara/minister/don53.htm
Oct 15th
Oct 13th
“Saint Francis is an example that we often cite, rightfully looking to him as an...”
– http://missional.blog.com/2541571/
Oct 13th
Oct 4th
274 notes
“The clown knows what it is to be the underdog, to be out of a job, done down by...”
– http://personalpages.lightspeed.ca/~danvie/instructions.html
Oct 4th
Oct 4th
“The blind man is the atheist or materialist, and the man is so absorbed in...”
– http://www.rootwerx.com/tarot/decks/brotherhood-of-light/the-fool/default.htm
Oct 2nd
Oct 2nd
“I went to the rabbi to get some advice. He said, “It is written, better...”
– http://www3.telus.net/Gimpel_Family/Gimpelthefool.html
Oct 1st
September 2008
14 posts
Sep 30th
“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sep 30th
Sep 30th
Till Eulenspiegel
The literal translation of the High German name gives “owl mirror”, two symbols that identify Till Eulenspiegel in crude popular woodcuts (illustration). However, the original Low German is believed to be ul’n Spegel, meaning “wipe the arse”. In the eighteenth century, German satirists adopted episodes for social satire, and in the nineteenth and early...
Sep 30th
Sep 30th
Sep 29th
Ramon Troubadour, the Fool
“Beyond the amusing fool, the medieval jester is the stunning archetypal fool. Every hero’s quest — from Lord of the Rings to the Iliad — is the fool’s quest, mapped out in the cards of the tarot. Ramon is this archetypal hero, fearless, full of humor, beyond simply likeable. Enemies adore him. Friends love him. He makes everyone laugh. Yet he is the true questing hero, on the...
Sep 29th
Sep 29th
“He is following a road that few choose. His dress suggests a court jester, but...”
– http://methodius.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html
Sep 29th
Sep 29th
“Finally, there is another sense of the holy fool, less a matter of conscious and...”
– http://www.reckonings.net/reckonings/2006/10/the_holy_fool.html
Sep 29th
Sep 29th
Sep 29th
“Total humility bestows invulnerability.”
– http://www.tarothermit.com/fool.htm
Sep 29th