Karmic Tarot: A Profound System for Finding and ... - myteacup

Definitions of the Positions in the Karmic Spread
Temperance(14)
Now awakened, the emotions move into the Higher Mental Stage. Emotional potential
is greater than ever before and so is emotional control, somewhat like a controlled
reaction in a nuclear reactor. Much of the test at this Stage is to see how well you can
manage and control your emotions. With proper control you have the energy and drive to
achieve your wildest dreams. Without proper control you can literally be destroyed with
your own energy, by your own doing, from within.
The Moon(18)
The earlier emotional drive of passion has now become a drive of compassion, as the
less secure sense of the lower self has given way to the more secure sense of the higher self.
This secure sense of self extends far beyond the boundary of the physical body, out into the
community at large. You are able to feel things at ever-increasing distances and with everincreasing
intensity. Under control this is a very rich sensory experience full of rewards, as
you feel more and more alive, more and more part of everything around you. Life is exciting,
but you feel indiscriminately and you can be overwhelmed if you are not prepared and
do not maintain the balance you learned from your Temperance (14) stage.
Judgement(20)
Here you see that the emotional duality has melted into the one, the universal love, of
God, of self. Anything you desire for the self at this point is for the universal good as well;
they are one and the same. Major lessons have been internalized, such as love without
attachment. Forgiveness fills your hearts as guilt melts away. Here is where you actually can
change the past, by how you choose to remember behavior and events long gone. As you
replay the memories for new lessons to be learned from your relationships, you “forgive
your debtors” and are in turn forgiven. Then, emotionally you are truly here and now,
centered in the present moment, free. Here is the true meaning of Judgement Day, the
culmination of the emotional journey, when your own heart takes stock of your life experience.
There is no punishment from the God “without”; only assessment from the God
“within.” How well did you realize your God-given gift of love?
Plane Three: The Mental Journey
The Empress (3)
Here is the mental plane at your physical birth, the given mental package, and the very
earliest aspects of mental existence. This is the virgin mind. Here then is the birth of the ego
and the origin of your identity package. The sense of self as separate is not developed and
you are dependent on the maternal physical support systems. Instinctively, the earliest
mental programs will be ways to increase the self, its size, its worth, its security, its tenure; in
short, its ownership and control over things external. But this is prior to truly understanding
the duality of things. Here the ego is ever hungry.
The Hierophant(5)
You begin to feel, to understand duality and its set of givens and requirements. You
begin to decide how you can fit in with everything that already exists. It is the dawn of your
conscience, your knowledge of right and wrong. Here are your earliest belief systems, but
they come from the pages of other people’s books. The ego sizes up the situation. This is
where you see the function of organized religion and how it is used to train the minds of
youth. This is the environment you are born into, what your parents hand you.
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