Manifesting from Our Karma and Beyond
A Facebook follower of the Empowering Astrology page, in response to my article on lunar manifestation, asked:
“. . . what do you mean about karma? That we won’t get more than our karma deserves? What if we have past karma from previous lives that is not good? Or if we have tried very hard to have good karma in this life but have sometimes done things out of desperation because life has dealt us some bitter blows? I would be very pleased if you could answer this!”
Oh, karma. It’s one of those loaded words that means many things to many people, but often is an excuse to philosophize life’s injustices. Karma is a sanskrit word that roughly means cause and effect, both in this life and previous ones. In the West we’ve come to reimagine the word as an eye for an eye. So if I steal from someone, I will get stolen from. Cause and effect. Karma’s a bitch.
Except that’s not how I see it.
Yes, karma is a cause and effect, but it’s not a Judeo-Christian concept and so we need to stop seeing it as such. For me, karma is the sum experience of the soul in this dimension. Karma is the agreements the soul makes with other souls before incarnating; It’s the curriculum of life; It’s layer upon layer of joy, trauma, survival, lessons, epiphany, instincts, brilliance, imbalances, vows, beliefs, and wisdom; It’s is the framework upon which the soul engages the human experience; It’s neither good nor bad; It just is. Read more
