Donnaleigh's Tarot

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What others say or do is their karmic lesson. How we respond is our own karmic lesson.

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This week I witnessed yet another bullying situation from one adult who felt an obsessive (consistently repeated over time) desire to hurt another specific person, trying to make them look vulnerable in front of others. In this particular situation the perpetrator was a person who referenced him/herself as “spiritual,” though the situation itself was not wrapped around a spiritual topic. Or…is there such a thing as a topic that is not spiritual? Perhaps they are all spiritual experiences?

In any case, it was uncomfortable to watch, and I found myself sitting and thinking of it at night. Why? Why do grown adults do this?

I looked at my decks and decided to pull out a favorite. It is an oracle deck called Karma Cards by Monte Farber, and the cards are based on Astrology. Some cards in the deck represent Planets, others are Signs, and yet others represent Houses. One card is pulled from each pile after shuffling, and received is a powerful and tidy sentence when the three piles are placed side by side. I like to use this deck with my nightly self-drawings and have found them wildly accurate and insightful each time.

The cards answer two questions here:

• Why do adults act mean or vindictive when they should know better (especially when we tell our children not to do this)

• What is recommended?

I drew two sets of three cards for two mini-readings. One I will blog about today. The next, even more powerful, I will share tomorrow. Here are the insights I got.

Pluto in Libra in the 9th House

WHY this behavior is done:

• The need for control of cooperation to perfect spiritual values.

One has an internal belief system in how things should be done, and since others are doing things that don’t match OUR spiritual value system, it must be wrong. We weren’t talking about laws or legalities here, we were talking about control over behavior. Yet this bully did feel the need to control all so that it fit their system.

• An obsession with decisions about Long-range thinking or values

(Note: I first read the word “decisions” as “illusions,” and that is notable).

This person is thinking about how the other person should think and act in the long-term. And yes, since this is ongoing and initiated each time by the person to projects this, it has become obsessive.

• A power struggle resulting from the fairness shown by what will be shared.

From the person projecting the power, they are trying to dominate the other and they *do* consider it fair, and they are showing others what they think needs to be shared by bullying in front of the community. While the bully here wants others to project in a way *they* feel is fair, it now becomes a power struggle and need for control. It seems to be a mission of spiritual rudeness, spite, and pressure. I suddenly see a vision of the Hierophant reversed, spirituality at its absolute worst, and the very reason more people have been killed in the name of spirituality than all the wars since the beginning of time. Many a death and injustice have been performed in the name of a “higher reason.”

What is recommended: (Turn the cards over and the sentences change to offer deep advice)

• Resurrect relationships as if it or they came from God.

And the old sentence comes here, “What would Jesus do?” Or any Spiritual Master for that matter, what would THEY do? How do the Great Masters show vindictiveness? They don’t. They know that what others do is their own responsibility or karma. What WE do is our own Karma. Our own behaviors create our own outcome, not that of others. This asks us to treat others the way God or the source of love and life would treat others. Are we acting from a place of love? Or a place of ego and control? This may not mean repairing a relationship as damage has been done, but it does mean resurrecting it to a point where it represents the true spiritual essence of Spirit, of God, of Life, of Light, of purity. When we look back at the reasons to WHY this is being done --“the need for control of cooperation to perfect spiritual values” -- we must stop and re-evaluate what our spiritual values are, and how they can incorporate bringing darkness to the world.

• Get to the heart of the beauty of the philosophies and laws involved.

This is a great suggestion for self-exploration. Look deep into one’s heart and explore one’s personal philosophies. Where are they coming from? What spiritual laws are we talking into our own hands? Are we trying to control dogma and control another’s’ karmic lesson? By doing so, have we now assumed a new personal karmic lesson? Have we now acted in such a way that appears spiteful and vindictive to all eyes but our own? Are we looking at the actual beauties of our philosophies, or are we creating our own spiritual “laws” in order to maintain control? This advice offers us the opportunity to look at the beauty of the deep spiritual systems we have. How can we create beauty rather than dark?

• Do or Die if you must, do it with your partner(s) and do it in a big way

This one speaks strongly for itself. It* is* do or die. It is assuming our own karmic death if we kill another’s light, because we have just broken every spiritual system’s primary rule (Love one another, do unto others as you would have them love you; harm none; as above, so below, and the greatest of these is love). We must realize the pain of our behavior and realize “it isn’t all about us.” Live and let live. Because if we “live and let die,” we are giving ourselves a spiritual death and strong karmic return. And not only do we look unfavorably from the eyes of Spirit…we look unfavorable to those who witness one’s clearly vindictive behavior. It is not spiritual, nor it is setting any sort of example another would want to repeat.

The lesson: If we ever hurt another for the purpose of spiritual or personal betterment, we then sabotage our own spirituality and create a karmic stain on our own life.

Join me in tomorrow's blog for an even more powerful spiritual lesson shared by the Karma Cards.deck about this topic.

To see that post, click HERE.

Here’s wishing you a tarot-filled week,

Donnaleigh

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