WHAT IS KARMA AND HOW IT RELATES TO TAROT?
Many people associate Karma with reincarnation—but its original meaning is much simpler and more immediate: Cause = Effect. Karma isn’t about your next life. It’s about how your actions, choices, and energy shape this one.
Tarot, in its true form, isn’t about predicting the future. It’s about revealing consequences, showing you the path your current mindset is creating. Every card is a mirror, asking:
“Do you know what your choices are doing—not just to you, but to others?”
Take greed. When it overtakes you, it narrows your vision. You may hurt those closest to you, forget what truly matters. Later, you may wish to go back, to be more generous, more aware.
That’s Karma. That regret, that insight, is the universe inviting you to change now, not later.
Karma is active, present, alive. It’s not judgment after death—it’s the subtle echo of your intention playing back to you.
Karma and the Butterfly Effect
Think of the world as a vast network. A butterfly flaps its wings in one corner; a storm brews elsewhere. It’s the same with your actions.
You buy a single plastic coffee cup. Not a big deal. But multiply that by 2.5 billion, and suddenly the oceans can’t breathe.
That’s Karma—not cosmic punishment, but amplified consequence.
Ouroboros from Sanskrit Aurna and auraga. It translates to feeding, which known to mean rebirth but it speak of the negative aspect of feeding itself, repeating cycle of negative events, energy, actions.
How Karma Was Twisted into a Caste System...
The Hindu caste system was not born from Karma—but from distortion.
When Indo-Aryans entered India 4–5 thousand years ago, they brought the Vedas—but later altered key hymns. One such text, the Purusha Sukta, describes a cosmic being dismembered to create humans in four castes. This was not original Vedic thought. The language, metre, and tone are inconsistent with the rest of the Rigveda. It was an insertion—an ideological weapon to justify control.
"If you were rich, it’s because of good karma in a past life."
Sound familiar? It mirrors Genesis 24:35:
“The LORD has greatly blessed my master and made him rich… with slaves, silver, and gold.”
Whether in the Bible or the Vedas, this manipulation sells the idea:
“You deserve your suffering. Don't question it.”
The Real Message of Karma and Tarot
Both Karma and Tarot were meant to guide us toward balance, not superstition or fear. Religion pushed Karma to the afterlife. Pop Tarot turned it into fortune-telling. But their original message was:
Live now. Be aware of the forces inside you. Balance them. Tarot teaches rational clarity—not emotionless logic, but a logic that clears emotional fog. It helps you see your habits, set boundaries, and act from truth, not reaction. By reconnecting with that essence, we stop feeding the snake. We stop repeating the pain.
