Donnaleigh's Tarot

This is a continuation of yesterday’s blog on bullying, which can be found HERE.

"What others say or do is their karmic lesson.

How we respond is our own karmic lesson."

~ Wayne Dyer

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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?

Saturn in Aries in the 6th House

Why this behavior is done:

• The maturity that brings energies to meet the challenge of service to others

Service to others does not mean only the“others” that we choose or want to be with. It also means how  we serve those who we feel challenge us, and how we interact with the world. The word “challenge” here speaks of difficulties we perceive, and how we meet them is how we express our spiritual selves.Are we acting with spiritual maturity?

• Caution regarding your ideas regarding what is good for us

The word “caution” is meant to protect us from something, such as when we see it on construction sites. Stop and think about what one considers is good for the world, and perhaps one might be seeing things off-kilter because of ego or the strong need to impose one’s personal beliefs on others. The word “caution” also speaks to us about a karmic trap we are leading ourselves into. What do you think is "good for us?" Caution is advised, a red flag is raised on one's perceptions.

•  Limits imposed resulting from the honesty and strength of your work.

An important sentence here. Limits meaning one cannot get past a point of growth, and honesty and strength of one’s work/behaviors are what limit the perpetrator here. There is a weakness, and there is dishonesty and the need to push something we *feel* may be true but in actuality is not.  A limit means a stopping point, not being able to get past it, and not being able to overcome something. It is time to look within at what we consider powerful and honest and realize that this in itself may not be the spiritual reality, though it is the weight of one’s own karmic lesson (how we use our strength and how we perceive honesty or our own truth).

What is recommended:

• Be realistic about your willpower as a full-time job

Forcing our will on another should not be our full-time job. Controlling the world or others suggests a God complex. Taking on the responsibility for righting another’s karma makes us feel like we are “God” and in control of the Universe... or at least something that we feel is beyond our reach. Be realistic about one’s responsibilities and how we exert our will. It is not our job to control the Universe or to pretend we are the hand of God. Someone is already in charge, and it is not for us to interfere.

• Be concerned about what you think you know about service.

This asks us to have concern, thought, and better insight about what we think we know about serving the world by controlling another by pretending we are performing some sort of spiritual service. The word “concern” asks us to realize the impact this i shaving on our own spiritual lessons and that perhaps we have taken a big wrong-turn. Think about what service means to the world, and perhaps there needs to be a serious shift in paradigm.

• You must wait before you can do it your own way and do it a little at a time.

two things are mentioned here: time and presentations. Now is not the time, nor is this impulsive thrust the way. This asks that another way be considered. Asking us to wait and do it “a little at a time,” suggests that bullying seems to be like a lion launching an attack in a beehive. Too much too fast, and inherently destructive to both  sides. It is said that “when you plan revenge, plan on digging two graves” (Confucius). Doing things more slowly or using different approaches, perhaps one that shows more moderation, kindness, and communication, might be a more “spiritual” approach and demonstrate better spiritual maturity.  Because when we learned a reason above to why people do this (“The maturity that brings energies to meet the challenge of service to others” ),we realize that spiritual maturity does not function on impulse, destroying for self-gain, putting another down, or having a victory where someone loses. In spiritual systems, both sides can win. If it bothers you to think that the other person can win, perhaps you might want to take a deep look at one’s own personal spiritual system to ask why we feel the need to overcome a person’s spirit or dogmatically impose one's own laws as if they were right or the only way? (The Hierophant reversed, spirituality at its absolute worst).

"Without the karma of good deeds, they are only destroying themselves."

~Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Here’s wishing you a tarot-filled week,

Donnaleigh

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