Karmic astrology and your natal chart
In karmic terms, what do you have going for you in this life? Is this a time to clear difficult karma? Or a life of rest, full of easy blessings? How have your past lives been? Are there lessons that you have been repeating over and over for centuries? What is the source of your greatest joy?
Your birth chart contains a wealth of information that, if correctly interpreted, helps you heal or transform old karmas, increasing your well-being and allowing you to make the best use of your time on earth to accelerate your spiritual growth. Working with karma is practically the goal of being in a body, and properly understanding your karma can point you to those whom you are most prepared to shed. How does this work?
Being born is never an accident. Between lives, your soul reviews its most recent incarnation and all of its previous lives to make decisions about the life to come. You choose all the important events in your life (including birth and death), the other key players, the problems and challenges you want to face, and the tools you have in your karma bag that you want to take with you. Unfortunately, for most of us, once we enter a body, we do not remember the decisions we make. However, because a soul chooses the time of birth to astrologically reflect its decisions, clues to its plans for this incarnation can be found in the horoscope.
For example, if Libra is on the cusp of your 10th house, authority in all its forms is an important issue in your life. Healing manifests itself when you learn to exercise authority with compassion. Then naturally you will get the recognition you crave. If your moon is in the sixth house, you have made a commitment to help others. To feel emotionally secure, you need to feel useful. The rest of your chart can indicate what form that service is likely to take.
Karmic astrology charts the course of the soul’s growth. If you are wondering who or what was in the past, the table provides information about the types of experiences you have had; the kind of life he has led; possible karmic debts that you have incurred and those that are owed to you; and the habits, trends and patterns that it has brought with it now. However, a karmic reading is not specific about who or what you were in past lives. For specific details, you may want to consider performing a past life regression.
When I had my first karmic reading at age 20, the astrologer pointed out a karmic pattern that I had already repeated several times but had never recognized as a pattern. When he explained the issues involved, the underlying tensions, and the way karma worked, he freed me to start learning new ways of solving things. Now karma no longer rules me. I handle those situations with more joy and in a more clear and conscious way.
This revelation and transformation of karma is the goal of karmic astrology.
Copyright (c) 2008 Diane Fast