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Karmic Spread Reading Interpretations
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4 GOVERNED BY THE EMPEROR: SPIRITUAL GIVENS, LIFE PURPOSE
UPRIGHT: Here is the philosophical detective. Chronus, Father Time himself, with his hourglass
to check on the rhythm of things. You may well be an ascetic, if such is the severity of your search
for the truth, but you may also be in the mainstream, as principled teacher or objective researcher.
INVERTED: The work of this mind may be you on loan as guardian angel, steering others to
important goals.
5 GOVERNED BY THE HIEROPHANT: SYSTEMS BORN INTO, SOCIETAL INFLUENCE
UPRIGHT: There is an intellectual, academic influence early on, and possibly in a very esoteric or
eccentric environment. This can also be the mark of an intellectual prodigy, with the earliest
influences of consequence already coming from the self rather than from one’s elders. It suggests
that the basics of the belief system on which you rely today was formulated at a very early age.
INVERTED: You may have been an unruly, difficult child with a strong distaste for authority. At
another extreme, the environment itself may have been overtly anti-establishment, revolutionary.
6 GOVERNED BY THE LOVERS: EMOTIONAL TAPES, BASIS FOR RELATING/CREATING
UPRIGHT: Here was born a love of knowledge and an appetite for the search. The dominate
passion is intellectual, fostering a love of books, computers, and the like. INVERTED: This can be
a sign of narcissism and emotional introversion to the extreme. This is a preference to be completely
alone. At the completely opposite extreme is a hatred for knowledge and things intellectual.
Any distaste for the activities of the mind bode ill for the self as it is our birthright and an inevitability
that we progress, which is to learn, and that cannot be done by the heart alone.
7 GOVERNED BY THE CHARIOT: PHYSICAL RESOURCES; MEANS TO ACHIEVE
UPRIGHT: Your material environment has been personalized to a tee and fits you like a glove.
When you shift, so does your entire environment—it is a natural an extension of you. This also
means that you are lean and mean, having nothing that you do not require to support your beliefs.
Thus in a very pragmatic sense, efficiency is your great resource and the physical foundation on
which you build. INVERTED: Your environment and support system may either not be a good fit,
or it is too tight, not allowing room for others or sufficient flexibility for contingencies.
8 GOVERNED BY STRENGTH: EMOTIONAL RESOURCES, ENERGY
UPRIGHT: The ability of your mind in the Emotional Plane, to profoundly understand the game of
love. The trials of family, and the pangs of creative stretching gives you your endurance. Your strong
intellect has guided your creative program and the results have drawn others to you, generating
confidence and giving you a school of admirers to work and play with. INVERTED: An overzealous
mind may be intruding on the major responsibility of the heart for the affairs of the Emotional/
Creative Plane. You may be far too independent and self-righteous in your relationships and/or
creative projects.
9 GOVERNED BY THE HERMIT: BELIEF SYSTEM; BASIS FOR DECISIONS
UPRIGHT: There is purity of thought here, a classical thinker, metaphysician, philosopher. This
mind believes in mind itself, in its ability to lead the ship safely to harbor. Here there are always new
ways of seeing the world, breakthrough concepts and paradigms. Here is Diogenes (of Apollonia),
the 5th century Greek philosopher, who held that air (the Mental Plane) was the basic element.
Known as a cynic, always looking for the irony, the humorous twist that duality puts on the reality
we experience. INVERTED: The purpose of withdrawal is to get the other, and therefore make
clearer our view of things, and so properly even in seclusion we are inclusive in our thought. The
purpose of leaving is to rejoin. Even the ascetic living alone for years in the mountaintop cave is
deeply involved and working on the collective need. His is the least selfish path of all, for he has
foregone all other experience save the work of mankind and nature as a whole.
10 GOVERNED BY THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE: CENTRAL MESSAGE, THEME OF READING
UPRIGHT: The arrival of a guide/teacher. And be prepared to meet yourself, for this can be one of
your past lives, in effect you coming to guide yourself with this matter at hand. Whatever the