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

Karma & Tarot
It can seem like a catch-22 to search for the positive while the negative has you numbed
with pain. Negativity and pain draw your attention because you want the pain to stop. But
the moment you discover the positive lesson, the problem is solved and the negativity is
gone. And you haven’t done anything except allow a change of awareness.
Tarot can save you a lot of pain. It shows you the lessons you are facing the potential
negativity—and if you can learn from a reading what lesson that potential problem has,
you will not need to experience it. You can go on to the next lesson. In other words, you do
not need to actually experience any pain, you just need to do your homework and learn
your lessons. This is true no matter what the karmic carryover may be.
Remember, initially all guidance for what we need to be doing comes to us intuitively
at the spiritual level. We are given the opportunity to learn, then and if we do so, there will
be no negativity, no pain. We simply become bigger and better, and we will have to remind
ourselves to acknowledge this growth and to say thank you. People who are especially
adept at getting the message at the spiritual level are like those who live in the caves and on
the mountain tops in the Himalayas. A quick glance into their eyes reveals the speed at
which they are assimilating God’s messages. For those of us less efficient at learning, the
message will have to descend first to the mental level, where it must be grabbed by the
conscious mind. If not learned at the mental level, it will have to descend to the emotional
level. If not learned through emotional experience, it will descend to the level of physical
experience.
The function of the duality of positive/negative follows that of all dualities, such as
hot/cold, up/down, good/evil, God/Devil; existence/nonexistence. And you must deal with
them in both respects. They exist as apparent extreme points, so that you can conceive of
what is in between those limits. The points themselves exist only as an abstract concept. What
really exists is everything that is in between. Duality is a mental tool for defining things.
The Tarot teaches the illusions and realities of duality and paradox. Especially, and
most importantly, it teaches the duality of good and evil, and more specifically, that of God
and Devil. These, too, are abstract points at the extremes of conceptual limits. What exists
is everything in the middle and it is all God. 2
In interpreting readings with the Karmic Spread, upright cards are interpreted to be
centered, root meanings that lie between various duality pairs. The duality pairs themselves
are the signposts of the extremes of that central meaning carried to either too much
or too little of that concept. The duality pairs are much the same as channel markers that
describe the left and right boundaries of safe travel in and out of a harbor. The closer we
get to the markers themselves, the closer we are to being out of the channel of safe passage.
Karmic Tarot Is an Evolution of Consciousness
All the questions you have, all the decisions to be made, the problems to be solved, can
be brought to the Karmic Spread, because all your questions relate to your progress on the
path—and the path is your evolution of consciousness.
At various speeds, we are all waking up to the reality of what we really are. Modern
physicists are now finally saying and proving what metaphysicians have always known:
Everything is energy! I believe that the Tarot, both Major and Minor Arcana, was conceived
with this knowledge of “all is energy” in mind.
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