People avoid pain and seek pleasure. Sometimes, making bad decisions becomes a habit. A habit is created in 31 days — and it can be broken in 31 days as well. We often become addicted to painful experiences: being in abusive relationships; bursting in anger before finding out the facts; acting out by being sexually promiscuous, doing drugs, drinking alcohol; insisting on being right all the time; controlling others. There are so many foolish behaviors they can’t all be listed here. You know what they are and you understand if you are acting foolish. No one has to tell you.

Like anything, letting go of foolishness takes work. Stop and think before lashing out at someone. Stop and think before posting an angry or passive aggressive post on social media. Take a class in anger management if anger is your thing. Go to a therapist if you have something you need to work on with a professional. Go to a healer, see a Shaman, see a root worker, do whatever you can to grow into an enlightened person who is on this planet to help others; to help animals or the planet; or to be an example to all who meet you.

We’ve all heard the sayings: “There’s no fool like an old fool.”  That one backfires almost every time I see it played out. If someone is playing someone else, they almost always get it back. There are more: “He played her for a fool”; “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.”

The Fool card can be a contradictory card. In some readings, the client is thinking of a new business venture or moving. The client could be attracted to someone and hasn’t thought it out; perhaps the person is married, emotionally unavailable, or not right for the client.

The fool doesn’t think of the consequences, which is why we see a male or female with their head in the clouds, about to walk off a cliff.

If a new idea has popped into your head, do your due diligence; the devil is in the details.