Book about the Fool

[finaflight]

Hi Everyone.

I am wondering. Is there a book that tells the story about the Fool and his journey. If there is I would love to read it.

 

[sascha]

Hi cosmoline,
A book that might fit this description is Yasmine Galenorn's, Tarot Journeys.
It's actually a series of meditations written as a continuing story following the reader's (the Fool's) journey as he/she stops to visit with each archetype in the major arcana. It's lovely, and gave me a lot of new ways of internalizing the messages the tarot teaches. Hope this is helpful!

 

[QueenofWands2]

Cosmoline~
Hello. There are several books about the fool's journey. Another is called 'Tarot and the Journey of the Hero' by Hajo Banzhaf. You might also try Googling. I typed in -- The Fool's Journey and came up with several websites that seemed to have narrative on this topic. Good Luck on your search.

QW2

 

[finaflight]

I wasn`t sure, but I was hopeing there was something.
I`m going to look into that right away.

thank you

 

[mythos]

There are other ways of exploring the 'fool's journey' in non-tarot ways. Three examples would be the novel The Idiot by Dostoevsky, Apulius's The Golden Ass and The Zelator: A Modern Initiate Explores The Ancient Mysteries by Mark Hedsel. That latter isn't a novel.

mythos

 

[Fulgour]

It is... and it isn't.

Journey to the East
by Hermann Hesse

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Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Picador (February 2003)
Language: English
ISBN: 0312421680

In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse tells of a journey
both geographic and spiritual. H.H., a German choirmaster, is invited
on an expedition with the League, a secret society whose members
include Paul Klee, Mozart, and Albertus Magnus.

The participants traverse both space and time, encountering
Noah’s Ark in Zurich and Don Quixote at Bremgarten. The pilgrims’
ultimate destination is the East, the “Home of the Light” where they
expect to find spiritual renewal.

Yet the harmony that ruled at the outset of the trip soon degenerates
into open conflict. Each traveler finds the rest of the group intolerable
and heads off in his own direction, with H.H. bitterly blaming the others
for the failure of the journey.

It is only long after the trip, while poring over records in the League
archives, that H.H. discovers his own role in the dissolution of the
group, and the ominous significance of the journey itself.

 

[mythos]

Cool Fulgour. I haven't read any Hesse for 30 years (except Siddharta just before I went to India), and I haven't read 'Journey To The East' at all ... but I will now.

mythos