The Major Arcana and the Querent
The Fool and the querent here have found the turning of their manifesting potential, and are now in a place of constant shifting and change. Having taken the reigns over their own thoughts and intentions, the Fool sees their choices and reactions with an eye for not just what they want but how it effects the world around them. They are placed on a path of changing themselves and seeing the very world around them change in response. If the first journey as the Fool seeing how the cogs of life are laid out, the second journey is the Fool watching as the cogs begin to turn - and in turn move each other. The lesson, at its heart lies in how no cog turns on its own. Each both is turned by, and itself turns, another. By the end of this journey, the Fool will find themselves in tune with the ebbs and flows of life enough that they maintain their own balance and self control despite the circumstances around them. In the first journey the Fool finds freedom from being ruled by their own unchecked thoughts; in this second journey they find freedom from being controlled by circumstance and change.
Creation Arc
The Fool begins their second journey with eyes on their own emotions. The raw potential of their self awareness has brought them face to face with their own unchecked emotions. Strength begins the journey, marking a need for patience and courage; and just as the Magician and High Priestess may come as a pair and interchange so too are Strength and the Hermit. It is in these two that the Fool finds that he needs to control his emotions (the appearance of Strength and the call for patience), and he turns to soul searching (the Hermit's arrival and signifying of stepping out of the chaos of life to find an inner truth). For the querent these can happen in either order - the consequences of unchecked emotions leads to the need to soul search, or soul searching leads them to find their own emotions are being left unchecked. And just as intention and will together bring about the ability to manifest in the first journey, the need for self control and the awareness that come from soul searching bring about the ability to find change within the Fool/querent/ This change, however is not guaranteed to be either positive or negative in the moment. The Wheel, marking the climax of the first arc, reminds us that while Justice might be blind, Fate cares not for what is earned or what is deserved. It only cares about the turning of the cogs and the inevitable moving of life forward. This, for the Fool and for the querent, comes regardless of for ill or good.
Discipline Arc
As the Fool realizes their own awareness has brought change into their life, they are fored to stand and answer for the results of their past choices. Justice, as said, is indeed blind. And the Fool must take the acceptance he was taught from the Hermit and apply it to himself now - for while the Wheel only cared for the order of time, Justice only cares for truth. And regardless of what the Fool might do, the truth with always always make itself known. They can either stand and face it with the patient Strength they've forged, or they can let it tear them down piece by piece. By being accountable for the truth of their actions, the Fool sacrifices the bonds of their past and is finally able to find new perspective as the upside-down strung Hanged Man. This hanging Fool sees the world in reverse, and can find those ways their own actions have caused the very changes they were fighting against. They see that when intention becomes choice, change is indeed unavoidable.
Realization Arc
Now fresh with new perspective, the Fool allows their past to fall behind them. The Death card at this point marks the transformation, and the removal of old patterns of behavior for the fool. The "old Fool" is dead and gone shed away like old skin form a snake. In its place a new, more intentionally aware Fool looks to the world, and finds the ability to create the balance both within themselves and how they choose to engage with the world around them. In this balance, the Fool finds Temperance, a calm and centered being that does not bend to the whims of life's currents. Instead they see who they are, and where life places them - and they find the potential to create change in every aspect of their life. It is here, with their eyes turned outward, that they now see the last bonds of their own being and what keeps them from their full potential.
Where their personal transformation has grown deeper with each journey, the impact of each change has also grown exponentially. At the crossroads from the second to the third journey, the Fool begins their greatest manifestation - the manifestation of their own reality. The first journey has given them the ability to manifest their own intentions. The second journey has allowed that to manifest change in the world around them. The third journey will bring all of this to a point of ascending and creating a whole new worldview and as a result an entire new experience in the reality of their life...
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