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

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Karmic Tarot
The TIME column shown on page 25 spans the entire lifetime from birth to death.
However, as you will see later in this book, you may use the spread for other time spans—
seven years, seven months, or seven days, for example—but in every case Stage Four remains
the present moment, the time of the reading. Notice also that this always coincides
with Spiritual Awakening. A reading brings you the information that you have been missing
through other means, and as such is a centering process awakening you to your full potential.
Divination—What It Is; What It Isn’t
Time itself is a duality. Your Present is the meeting point of what we call your Past and
your Future. The Present itself can be seen to be the mid-point of an infinitely large
Present and an infinitely small Present. At its infinitely small end, what you are about to say
becomes what you have just finished saying. At this extreme, there is no present moment at
all, only the future becoming the past. But at its infinitely large end, the present is so big
that it includes all of your past and all of your future. At this extreme, that even includes all
of your past lives and all of your future incarnations. When the present moment pulses
between its extremes of infinitely small and infinitely large, the reading glimpses the future.
But here again is the magic of paradox, for the future the reader sees is not a predestined
fait accompli without free will. The future it sees is dependent on the present moment,
on your free will, and your sincere desire to maximize your life potential.
The Charts of the Karmic Spread Positions
Chart 1 shows the Karmic Spread positions with the 22 governing Major Arcana in
place. In a reading, of course, there will be 22 cards chosen at random from the entire pack
of 78 cards. They will be the cards looking up at you from this pattern, not the Major
Arcana as shown here. Meditate on this chart to plant firmly the picture of the Major
Arcana marching in this sine curve pattern across the page, for they are the clues to the
meanings of the positions in the Spread. Remember that the Major Arcana derive their
meanings from the same place that the positions of the Spread derive theirs. Each position
is noted with its functional meaning.When doing a layout using the Karmic Spread, each
of the 22 cards selected at random is interpreted as the response to the meaning of its
respective position.