04-03-2016, 02:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-03-2016, 02:15 PM by JustLikeYou.)
The Fool is representative of the complete human experience. Think of it like the main character (or characters) in a story who actually experiences catharsis and whose persona changes as a result of the events that play out in the story. The other archetypes are the characters whose persona remains continuous and stable throughout the story, but who influence the Fool along the way. While this appears to contradict Ra's description of the Fool as the only archetype that is singular in its interpretation, it actually confirms it: we can only experience the Fool in one way---for what else could we mean when we say "I"?---but the Fool is also the only one who moves from experience to experience in the saga of a human life. Even the Significators are unable to move through experiences the way the Fool does because they are limited by their own domains. The mind cannot have a spiritual experience, cannot combine thoughts and emotions with faith and purpose. And so on.
When we say that a character "changed his mind," that reflects a change in the Significator, but the Fool is who we are saying changed his mind, since the Fool is what we call the "self" and the Significator of the Mind is what we call the "mind".
When we say that a character "changed his mind," that reflects a change in the Significator, but the Fool is who we are saying changed his mind, since the Fool is what we call the "self" and the Significator of the Mind is what we call the "mind".