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A fact based analysis of what Karma really is and how it is created. Calculate the type of Karma which remains our preoccupation as it is the kind which are least able to change; the Drida Karma.
“It must be your KARMA!” is the new (and old) black dress of spiritual solutions…everybody has it in their counseling repertoire, and we all use it excessively when we’re at a total loss for exotic explanations or we’ve come to the end of the psychological roadmap. As black dresses go…they’re all reliable but the designer you bought them from REALLY matters. So, are you a fan of Balenciaga and Chanel or do you shop for karmic fashion essentials at the local Chinaman shop?
Just for fun choose your karmic designer fads (soon I’ll publish the list of ‘what’s hot/what’s not’ for anyone who can’t decide between slate, tar black and midnight):
- Karma is what you create by your actions and results in the ‘baggage’ you carry into your next life; so best not hit the ATM when it swallows your card on account paying day because you don’t know what body it will choose in it’s next incarnation.
- Karma is a system of reward and punishment whereby you escape hell this time round but get to live it at least 5000 more times in consequent lives.
- Karma means simply ‘What ye sow, ye shall reap’ and is thus a Biblical ideology.
- Karma works within the framework of freewill or vice versa.
- Karma is what you create with your actions and you get to ‘pick’ which karma you want to ‘work on’ before you come down to the earthly realm with the help of your guides.
- Karma is a good excuse to do absolutely nothing this lifetime so that in your next life you have virtually no debt to re-pay.
Truth be told: I’ve read countless books, attended about 147 talks and searched forever to find a reasonable explanation for “Karma” that works for both myself and clients and haven’t found the perfect answer but got an 85 per center from Rod Suskin at the Cape Town Vedic Conference and it’s simply put:
Everything is Karma; not only BAD things get recorded in the karmic system ALL things are stored. Karma as a system of punishment and reward is a Judeo- Christian ideology that results in much confusion. Actually “KARMA IS AN ANCIENT SYSTEM OF PHYSICS” whereby every action has an equal and opposite reaction…this doesn’t mean that smacking your boss will result in him hitting you with a ruler in Grade II next time round; more likely, it means that he’ll be your deckhand on a pirate ship and you’ll get to play Captain Cook! Jokes aside, what constitutes a karmic reaction is not necessarily “THE SAME ACTION BUT A FORCE OF EQUAL MAGNITUDE”.
The real problem with our Western take on Karma is our Western minds, since Karma is an Eastern religious idea and an inherent part of Eastern culture which means that it is absorbed as a life philosophy not a quick fix to a spiritual cul-de-sac.
“KARMA ALLOWS FOR AN IMPERSONAL GOD”. Perhaps Westerners have latched on to the ideology because to their minds that means that by believing in Karma they might be able to play God and eventually create God?
“ACTION creates KARMA.
ACTION is generated by DESIRE.”
In Eastern philosophy three types of desire motivate an individual’s life:
- Sattvic: motivated by altruism; will produce small quantities of Karma
- Rajassic: motivated by passion; will produce large quantities of Karma.
- Tamassic: motivated by selfishness and blind need; will produce the heaviest Karma.
Furthermore, Karma is divided into subdivisions:
- Sanchita Karma: potential karma; the sum total of all your karma from all your previous lives (non-reincarnationists may consider this as the sum total of the sins of the father).
- Prayabda Karma: ripened karma…in this department there is no personal choice, it being the result of built up actions…usually your Prayabda Karma prescribes the circumstances of your death and has a direct influence over your next life.
- Kriyamana Karma: the response you take in the next life in response to your Prayabda Karma (or in this life to your last life’s Prayabda Karma).
- Agama Karma: actions that you are contemplating.
To confuse our Western fashion magazine mentality even more…your karmic black dress comes in sassily sexy, smouldering hot and boiling point:
- adrida: easy to resolve (a panic attack)
- drida adrida: can be resolved with great effort (depression)
- drida: almost impossible to resolve (psychosis)
The Karma most astrologers are concerned with is DRIDA KARMA…this is the karma we try to see in the chart and yet it is the karma that a client is least able to change, so what is the point of spending two hours talking about this department to make yourself look intelligent? (remember that you are NOT God). What we as astrologers can really help our clients with is the DRIDA ADRIDA and ADRIDA.
Drida Karma = The Sun+ The Moon + The Ascendant+ The Midheaven:
The Sun= Your father, his genetic, cultural and behavioural contribution to your life (and by extension your paternal family pattern).
The Moon= Your mother, her genetic, cultural and behavioural contribution to your life (and by extension your maternal family patterns).
The Ascendant= your immediate incarnate self, your personality and your body and health (and by extension your own pattern).
The Midheaven= the condition into which you are born, your status and immediate potential life achievement (and by extension your own environmental pattern).
Drida Adrida= Saturn+Jupiter+Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
Saturn= the difficult RESOLVABLE karma you have chosen to work on in this lifetime.
Jupiter= the easy baggage you carry that helps you to by means of talents etc. to relieve the effect of Saturn.
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto= your generational karma…good and bad.
Adrida= Mercury+Venus+Mars
Mercury= your mindset towards this lifetime.
Venus= what you like and dislike.
Mars= your day-to-day actions.
NB although it may seem that these three planets are ultra-easy to deal with do not be fooled since your current mind (Mercury) and desire/passion nature (Venus+Mars) are going to be responsible for the next created karma.
I’m not quite sure whether I should include the Moon’s Nodes in any of the above as they seem to encompass the whole system instead. The South Node is the sum total of all your PAST karma and the North Node the karma you are now CREATING…returning to Rod’s explanation that karma is an ‘Ancient system of physics where every action has an equal and opposite reaction’, it is interesting that the Nodal Axis incorporates two opposite signs and houses. Thus, your South Node in Aries in the first will suppose that you have a lot of personal karma, which you will attempt to resolve by creating relationship karma (North Node in Libra in the 7th); if you succeed your nodal axis will be ‘balanced’ resulting in a clearance of karma.
Sounds simple but remember…to incorporate the above properly into a reading would involve thorough analysis of each planet and its aspects to others. So, instead of philosophizing further, I’m off to try on my own karmic black dress, only trouble is that my Venus in Pisces desires all the sequins and details you could possibly dream of…I guess that in my next life I’ll get a stroppy Venus that makes me wear sacks!!!
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