According to some mystics, we are not the victims of some ridiculous set of circumstances. We choose to be who we are. We choose to be with the people who bring us into this life and they choose to be a part of our lives. We choose to be born. We enter into an act of creation and spend the rest of our lives creating who and what we are. We choose the time and place where we will be by the choices we make in our lives. We choose who we become by the choices we make in our lives. This is how we grow spiritually and this is the Journey of a Lifetime, the Journey of the Fool.
We prepare to incarnate in the physical world of matter. This preparation is represented by the Fool. We dress in a physical body and carry our baggage with us. We step off into the unknown and forget who we are. We've made a willful decision to experience physical reality in this physical universe...and so we shall.
We are the Fool. We go forth to learn and to experience...We forget who and what we truly are and we live in darkness, in ignorance, until we suspect the truth. We move from darkness to light, from ignorance to partial truth, and from partial truth to absolute truth.
We do this over and over again until we become the perfected One.
Then we go forth no more. We go home from whence we came. We have become everything we could be.