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The Karmic Spread
Readings with the Karmic Spread
Readings are a result of the interaction of the cards, the spread, and the reader. Readers
bring a double aspect to the situation. First is their objective knowledge of the meanings
of the cards and positions. Second is their intuitive ability to derive the specific meanings
of those cards on those positions at this one never-to-be-repeated point in time. While
Karmic Tarot cannot improve on the intuitive ability of the reader, it does give the reader
an excellent easy-to-learn system for learning the Tarot.
The cards and the positions are memory devices, triggers for messages to the reader.
The stronger the spread and the greater the reader’s pre-knowledge of the cards and
positions, the more opportunity there is for a more specific, helpful reading.
The Tarot is both rational and intuitive. It links the mental and spiritual worlds and
operates under the rules of both at the same time, just as we do. 2
Most Tarot systems are based on memorizing, similar to the memory systems in various
religions and other disciplines in which large amounts of information need to be routinely
accessed. The two most common examples of these are prayer beads, like the Catholic
Rosary and the Sufi Taspi.
In Karmic Tarot it is not necessary to memorize the abstract meanings of seemingly
unrelated bits of information. There is an immediately apparent logic to the organization
of the spread, to the grid of interaction between the four Planes of the Self and the seven
Stages of Life. So, once you understand the fourfold profile of the Self (the four Planes)
and the seven Stages of Life (the seven Stages of the evolution of consciousness), you have
a ready-made reference system that yields more than 3,000 meanings that you don’t have to
memorize. 3 More importantly, while this system does offer up immediate and obvious archetypal
meanings, it is an open system that continues to suggest more possibilities every
time it is accessed.
The Karmic Spread enables you to use the Tarot for questions about straightforward
everyday problems like decision-making, relationships, or work, as well as about your deepest
psychological and philosophical concerns. And this spread is particularly well-suited to
defining the questions themselves. That is important, because often you just know something
isn’t quite right but have no clue to what’s wrong—just a feeling that things could be
a lot better. Often, the solution to the problem appears with the definition of the question.
The answer then lies in realizing what the question is.
The Karmic Spread provides a layout that is meant to be interpreted on two levels. The
seven columns are to be read as Stages of both consciousness and time. The Stages of
evolving Consciousness emphasize the karmic progress on your life path. The Stages in
Time emphasize the meter of real time to which we march.
STAGE CONSCIOUSNESS TIME
Stage One Physical At Birth
Stage Two Emotional Early Childhood
Stage Three Mental Recent Past
Stage Four Spiritual (Awakening) Present
Stage Five Higher Mental Near Future
Stage Six Higher Emotional Mid-Future
Stage Seven Higher Physical Long-term Future
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