The Real Dragon in the Ouroboros

Animals tend to be symbols for our instincts, so it's a good idea to suppress the ego and listen to them whenever we need guidance in our life journey.?

The ego can become a real dragon, in the metaphorical sense it may hold us in, not let us venture beyond our beliefs, established objectives, and society’s conventions, pinning us down in a smaller life than the one we might endeavor to be living. How to slay the dragon in us??

That is the soul’s "ultimate-ouroboros shattering adventure”.??

How many of us willfully unfurl our life as a story of self-realization of what we might desire -- to be ever more expansive -- in alignment with our conscious pursuit???

Between the Fool card as number 0 or as a number symbolic of the end of a completion of a tarot deck, the journey of life takes place. The tarot's symbols constantly refer to a basic principle: the elevation of consciousness and, consequently, spiritual life. Therefore, our journey through life represents an illumination that is possible and can be achieved. In a sense, it is only one small step away and then involves taking more strides in a definitive direction.?

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Can we be led astray? Most assuredly, and it's usually a Joker that is most tempting to the Fool.? Though, it is wise to remember the Joker -- while bookending a deck is not a part of the deck.? Jokers stand apart from life's game. While, in the sense of being wild, a Joker does know the rules, they just prefer to apply this cognition in mischievous ways within enacted social constructs.

The Fool card is our true release from the boundaries of convention; often flexing the joints that hold our world together, and flexibly refreshing awareness in ways otherwise shunned by what the conventional world deems possible.

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There's a real edginess playing on the cusp.? A fool-hardiness that literally speaks the "actions of the word" and says "is this society robust enough to be challenged." The Fool demands to know:? "is the character deep down resilient enough to handle the fool."

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Which is why the Fool can prevail where the Joker cannot:? the Fool card is a universal symbol of the source of life, aspiration shining forthrightly. The Joker, a mere wisp in the Fool's shadow.

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The Fool card can only become the last card in our tarot when we embrace rather than resist the reversal that mirrors our life's complete journey:? thus, being the ultimate achievement.? As C.G. Jung says in the prologue of Memories, Dreams and Reflections, “My life is a story of the self-realization of the unconscious."