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The F Ool Archetype Presented by Suzie Wolfer LCSW Suzie@Suziewolfer.Com Ó Ò 503-762-7612 The F ool Archetype Presented by Suzie Wolfer LCSW [email protected] www.suziewolfer.com 503-762-7612 _______________________________________ What is an Archetype? Carl Jung believed that our minds come coded with patterns, like magnets that lead us to perceive the world in a particular way. He called these predispositions archetypes. They have some interesting characteristics in the case of the Fool Archetype: They contain all aspects of “foolishness” that are possible. For example in the Fool archetype you find the Sacred Clown, the Comedian, the Mystic Fool, and the Healer Clown like the character Patch Adams. They are present at birth and have the power to command our attention. It leads us to events, people, and opportunities. We have a built in mechanism to notice the things in its domain The Archetype takes life force and gives it a direction, provides focus. Like a moth drawn to the light, the archetype is a light that draws us to develop and grow through the use of the power it gives us. It helps us energize in challenges, that without the archetype we might give up. The Fool persists on the journey, when others might turn back and head for the familiar, or give up on a relationship instead of continuing to love. Archetypes are like invisible magnets. Their fields are invisible until we place metal filings around them and can see the force field they exert. Our life experiences are like the metal filings, showing us where our strengths lay. They are also like the DNA of the personality, holding potential, and directing life paths with the field of influence We gradually learn who we are through the challenges and accomplishments gifted us through the archetypes They also require faith at times, when confusion and chaos strike. They help us know what to do when the manual is missing. They require us to hold the tension between conflict and resolution where our creativity is invoked and helps us find out way on the Dancing Fool by Suzie Wolfer Hero’s Journey. These struggles have personal meaning when the archetype has chosen us, so that the resolution of these challenges makes us alive authentic human beings. The challenge carries the seeds of our true self and call us to the task, transcending our fears. The archetype energizes us so we can overcome our fears. They move us from the world of the known, secure predictable world, to the world of the possible. The Fool Archetype by SuzIe Wolfer LCSW www.suziewolfer.com . page 1 What is the F ool Archetype? Whenever we think we’re in charge of things, the Fool may enter center stage to remind us to be mindful, humble and amused. The Fool reminds us to Lighten Up! Not take our selves so seriously. But more importantly, the Fool leads us to opportunities we would never consider when everything is going our way. This powerful and universal archetype has been known as the Jester, Coyote and the Interrupter. And his or her gift is always a wake up call. The word Fool comes from the Latin word follis, which means a pair of bellows, which provide the oxygen needed for a combustion. The Fool "fires us up" with the impetus for action when something is finished or goes stale. According to Jacquelyn Small 1 The Fool represents an inner attitude of Divine Innocence, willing to have total faith in the process of living. He casts himself totally -- and with gay abandon -- into all with which he comes into contact, and redeems whatever he meets. This quality of Divine Innocence is a form of continual humility in all our relations, which prevents any adversity from causing imbalance. Anything adverse The Fool encounters is brought to the heart of its positive quality with a sense of awe; it is transformed. Without accepting our dark or "unlived" side with this child-like quality, we take on a false spirituality, one where "niceness" replaces the raw beauty of real-ness. This Divine Person has so much faith in this process and in God; a symbol of our core Self. "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." This is the one who always takes us to the next level, not afraid of stepping off the bluff into the chasm of the Unknown. The Fool combines wisdom, madness, and the folly of the spiritual adventurer, but never stays attached when it's time to move on. Confounding the establishment by playing God’s Fool Committee Card by Suzie Wolfer Trickster is one of The Fool's most loved tricks. When this archetype is present and active in your psyche, you can be completely unpredictable and amoral -- a divinely sanctioned lawlessness that is hard to rationalize -- guided wholly by an experimental attitude toward life. In this willingness to be so un-programmed by culture, tribe, or society, we carry the makings of the Hero/Savior archetype. This provides us the archetypal impulsive curiosity that continually moves us toward the fulfillment of our ideal, though we're often surprised at how this comes about. In the Grail legend, Galahad showed the power of the Fool archetype of Parsifal who welds together a broken sword, accomplishing what all the heroic knights were unable to do. The innocent or fool represents that part of us who is willing to ride off into the unknown, let go of preconceived ideas, old programming, ego, and intellectual ways of approaching things. That innocense allows intuitive life 1 http://www.themetaarts.com/2004sept/jaq.html The Fool Archetype by SuzIe Wolfer LCSW www.suziewolfer.com . page 2 forces to emerge. The Archetypal Fool interrupts our plans to open a new door to who we were really meant to be and what the Universe needs us to do. The Fool leaves the past behind. He carries nothing more than his purity, innocence and trust. No matter how many times the Fool is deceived; she goes on trusting, acting “like a fool.” Her trust and innocence springs eternal and is incorruptible. She has no interest in being other than where she is. The Fool tells the truth! In history and legend, the Court Jester Fool came closest to the seat of power and had the capacity to reveal the truth. Because no one took them seriously, the Jester was able to influence and cajole the King, and in some cases bring them back from the brink of maddness and obcession. In the Dark Times in Europe past, the Jester Tribe spread through out Europe carrying news, using influence to move the ruling class to see the value in more humane treatment of their subjects. They traveled under their convincing cover as buffoons and thus had access to power and resources with which to promote their goal of humanist values. Shrek Community Card We may have been chosen by the Fool Archetype. The lives of Robin Williams and other comics portray this partnership with “the Fool. The Fool can show up in all four suits, not just the Council suit: as a committee member, disrupting our plans; as an Animal Companion such as Coyote teaching us about mischief or as a Community member who inspires us to break out of our limiting stories, such as Byron Katie. The Fool can also dance in and out of our lives, especially in childhood and Elderhood. During these life epochs, we partner with the Fool when we either don’t notice or don’t care about the rules that govern modern life. We don’t conform. We aren’t trying to impress or get ahead. We may love life but we’re not attached to it, living instead in simplicity and joy. The S hadow F ool The Shadow Fool can be a strong player in chemical dependency problems, when we are taken over and our judgment clouded when we long to be innocent and fun loving and happy. We seek the Fool’s apparent care free life but then wake up to the consequences of the Shadow Fool’s choices for us. In recovery, the Fool can become our ally alerting us to when we are off balance, as they say in AA, when we are hunger, angry, lonely or tired, the Shadow Fool may tempt us to drink or smoke our way into problems. So we watch for the Fool to point us in the direction we do NOT want to go. We may also fear the Shadow Fool and in our resistance try to block spontaneity and then, can act with blindness, rashness, or cruelty in the name of humor. We may love foolishly over and over, never seeing the pattern repeating itself as we watch our lives self descruct. For example, when in the grip of the Fool, we may impulsively act, say things that the other members of our “board” may be unprepared to support. We might feel foolish, for acting so rashly! But then time may reveal that we indeed made a wise move with the Fool’s help. Only with time, conscious awareness and resourcefulness can we know the outcome when the Fool dances into our lives. Most people have a the Fool in their “shadow bag” either fearing or trying to control the impulse to go innocently into the unknown. To do anything else would be . well foolish! The Fool Archetype by SuzIe Wolfer LCSW www.suziewolfer.com . page 3 H ow the F ool Archetype engages & challenges us . The Fool invites us to begin an adventure in innocence and trust. You can almost hear him or her whistling as s/he steps once more onto the path, embracing future with optimism.
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