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The Karmic Contract
Karma & Tarot
Fundamental to the concept of a discernible Karma at work in the Tarot is the belief
that each of us, as our soul is preparing to be born, decides on a master plan for the lifetime
ahead. This is the “Karmic Contract,” an outline or framework agreed upon with the
Divine. You could say that at this point the God “within” agrees with the God “without”
on the framework. The degree to which you satisfy this contract is the degree to which you
will be happy and successful. In other words, you feel fulfilled when you are fulfilling your
contract. You feel most angry when you are not meeting the terms of your contract, because
you are violating an agreement you have made with yourself.
Free Will and the Karmic Contract
Prior to birth your free will is expressed by the choices your soul makes for your Karmic
Contract. After your birth your free will is expressed by the choices you make within the
framework of that contract. You have an apparent infinity of choices, but those choices
must fall within the agreed upon path if you are to have a satisfying life.
Imagine your life as the process of building a tower, a tower with four columns as
foundation and structure. The construction of this tower represents the first of many
paradoxes that will mark your path. These columns represent the four aspects of your
contract—the physical, the emotional, the mental, and the spiritual givens. Stated positively,
they are the parameters for your lifetime; stated negatively, they are the limitations
that must be accepted and used in order to succeed. And they are the lesson in paradox, for
if you accept your limitations, you will be unlimited in what you can put into your tower
and how high you can build it. The intention is for you to be able to reach the heavens, to
return to God with all your lessons learned. To a Hindu this would be the end of the cycle
of reincarnations.
Only by accepting and working with the givens of any situation can you hope to build
on it, to change it. The paradox again. Only by accepting can you effect change. First you
must be passive to the will of God; then you can be active with the will of Man. This
universal lesson of the contract at your moment of birth is what moves through life with
you in every situation of every moment of every day. Accept and give thanks for what you
have, and then you can change. You must build on your foundation.
Staying Centered on the Path
You are born with complete knowledge of your Karmic Contract and the lessons it
includes. Your challenge in life is to see how efficiently you can bring those lessons, which
you know intuitively, into fruition in your conscious existence. God communicates with
you continuously to remind you of the pressing requirements of your Karmic Contract. A
“centered” life path is one on target with the soul’s obligations. These are the people
whose lives seem charmed, who always appear happy, healthy, and of course, extremely
lucky. These are the people that test us via the sin of envy.
God communicates with all of us equally—but we do not listen with equal attention.
Centered people are good listeners. Those of us who are less than perfect listeners must be
reached in more concrete ways. These can be from minor to major attention-getters.
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