Call Me a Fool

I have April Fool's Day on my least favorite of holidays list. This year, I am wondering why I would even care enough to dislike an all-in-good-fun, seldom-a-big-deal, sort of commemoration.

In researching the holiday history I found that April 1st used to be New Year's (my favorite) and when the Gregorian calendar switch came through it took years for some people to find out. Even after receiving the information some people refused to go along with the evolution. These stubborn individuals became known as "fools" and consequently the butt of a global, day long joke.

Funny that this definition of Fool flies in the face of the definition I have come to understand from my own life.

There is a distinct pleasure I am gaining from my ever increasing naivety. (Last year I was happily taken in by just about every joke played on me April 1st. Like a gold fish I found myself ever surprised by the revelation of more than a few quite obvious ruses.)

The wonder I have begun to approach life with has made me one hell of a gullible gal. If you feel moved to share something with me, I feel moved to trust you. No need to fear what isn't real, wouldn't you say?

I find it a much more expansive and enjoyable life to simply Believe, as often as possible.

Receipt of the Fool card in Tarot used to feel an embarrassment, now I find a smile spreading across my lips and into my eyes at this draw.

Check the following description from SuperTarot.co.uk:

The Fool card is the first card of the Tarot deck; it represents the beginning of something. It is almost impossible to predict exactly what will happen, since it is invariably something new, and not based upon what has gone before. The Fool defies rationality or logic. This creates an excitable sensation, a frisson or shock to the system. 

The Fool can represent the desire for rebirth, or making a new start to life, but with the proviso that the future path is not mapped out. The Fool is Nothing and Everything. It is the Empty set that contains all within it. The Fool is associated with fertility and the primal energy of Spring with the connotations of birth, rebirth and transformation. 

As a strategy, the Fool is all about avoiding the common path that everyone treads. It is finding new viewpoints, new ideas, shocking concepts, beliefs, or views.
The Fool is an indescribable state of consciousness that works on impulse. It can never allow an external influence - everything is from within.

For me the Fool is the essence of Infinite Potential from which ANYTHING can spring forth once the commitment to creation is made. Keeping evolution moving right along at an ever increasing rate.

In the end though, what sort of Fool would I be without a healthy dose of self-effacing humor.

Go ahead... Fool me.

I'll just blush and smile.