Justice Wisdom Reading

Justice Wisdom Question:  Is the concept of karma just a way of blaming the victim?  (Or otherwise a not true or not helpful concept?)

Today I used the “Oldest Spread” with Arcana Stones and the Visconti mini.  The spread a very cool way of getting a varying number of major-minor pairs for each reading.  Check it out on Mary Greer’s blog:  http://marygreer.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/the-oldest-spread-by-le-comte-de-m/  To use it with stones, I counted out the minors as usual, turning them over with my right hand, and when I got a minor hit, I closed my eyes and randomly grabbed a stone from the pile of stones under my left hand.

And this is what I ended up with.  (The first minor was the Ace of Coins so I put the stone in the middle of the coin/card on impulse, and then continued that with the rest of the pairs.)

Ace of Coins + 19-Sun-Citrine.  The truth and operation of karma in this current life/incarnation is a plain as the nose of your face, if we would just open our eyes.

3 of Wands + 11-Justice-Aventurine.  Karma does travel with us wherever we go.  (The next pair implies this includes through a series of lives and/or between lives.)

7 of Swords + 13-Death-Mahogany Obsidian.  Death causes us to forget past lives, but just because we don’t know about them doesn’t make them not exist.  In a way, our past life actions sneak up on us like a thief in the night.  We might not know the thief is there, or know who she is, but we know there is a possibility that someone is there.

Page of Cups + 4-Emperor-Carnelian.  We are truly sovereign in our free will.  We can do anything we want with our lives, even though we sometimes feel like innocent victims of circumstance.  The Page also suggests that we should follow our hearts.  Conscience is an innocent, innate feeling of the truth and goodness of the golden rule.  I disagree with Hamlet (which could show the difference between believing in everlasting punishment versus karma)--conscience does not make cowards of us all.  It can help make us strong, powerful, and determined Emperors of our own lives.

4 of Coins + 0-Fool-Clear Quartz.  This is a continuation of 7 of Swords + Death.  When we incarnate, we have to start at the beginning of this life.  So, while it’s true that karma stays with us, it’s also true, and probably more helpful to understand, that we have to life this life, not a past or future one.

5 of Wands + 3-Empress-Malachite.  Here are the circumstances that we feel victim to.  Yes, life entails struggle, for the basics to sustain life plus other needs and desires.  But we can’t make that an excuse to leave our conscience behind.

9 of Wands + 12-Hanged One-Sodalite.  Both of these speak of waiting.  “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”  1 Corinthians 13:12.  We are not wrong to ask this wisdom question, and the reading has given us some valuable tips on how to think about karma, but it’s one of those things that humans aren’t able to understand entirely until we reach or pass through some other state or stage.  In the meantime, we watch and wait for the truth.