Karmic Contract?

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 03 Dec 2004, and now archived in the Forum Library.

RaggedShoreline	03 Dec 2004
I did a Karmic spread a while ago, and I got a little worried. The card for my karmic contract from birth was the 10 of swords. Is this a bad sign? I'm new to this board and though I have practiced tarot, I don't know the complete meaning of every card. Some are still vague to me, but the 10 of swords is a negative card, isn't it?

seawomyn	03 Dec 2004
I have a thought on this. I believe that Karmic contracts are not singular. If the card that for karmic contract was a major arcana card then I would accept that it may indicate that which you will be dealing with all your life, but a minor arcana card I would suspect is one aspect of what you may have to deal with, once dealt with one can move on. If that were my own reading I would look at what in my past so far resonates with that card, what I have done to move past that, and then redo the spread to see if there are any other elements that need to be addressed.

RaggedShoreline	03 Dec 2004
Thanks. :) I'll try that. I suspected maybe I read the reading wrong...

Sparrow	04 Dec 2004
What deck were you using? The meaning will depend to some extent on that. 10 Swords does not have to be negative, although it looks SO melodramatic with all those swords in that back. It can mean an end to trial and pain, or a difficult period. In non-Rider Waite decks 10 Swords can be very positive.

magpie9	04 Dec 2004
RaggedShoreline wrote: The card for my karmic contract from birth was the 10 of swords. The 10 of swords is usually an ending of a cycle, so it can easily be seen as good news in a karmic contract. Quote: I don't know the complete meaning of every card. Some are still vague to me, Some of us here have reading 20 or more years, and we still don't exactly, competely, or always know the meaning of every card, every time. The study of tarot is life-long. Don't let anybody tell you that you are less than --or WRONG--because you are new at it. You may have much to teach many of us who have been on this path longer. Learning and experimentation are what this community is all about. You will find most people here welcoming and non-judgemental. Quote: but the 10 of swords is a negative card, isn't it? 10 of swords looks worse than it is, usually. It is a card of finialization and does not, all by itself, tell what it is that it is ending. Another card would tell you that.

Suriel	04 Dec 2004
Hey dear RaggedShoreline:) 10 of swords don't necessarily be a negative card! It maybe tells you that you have so many things that waiting for you to discover them. Whether they are for good or bad, you should have the courage to face them, ok? Love, Suriel

Lurea	04 Dec 2004
In the Coleman Smith (aka Rider-Waite ;) ) there is a new dawn breaking in the sky. You could take that as meaning you've been to the bottom and there's nowhere left to go but up. I've also heard people say that they have gotten the ten of swords when they were...uh...being a bit melodramatic, and making make a bit too much of things. Not implying anything, you understand, just repeating something I've heard! :D ;)

Fudugazi	04 Dec 2004
Sorry for my ignorance, but what is a karmic contract?

Ulfdis	09 Dec 2004
I really agree with Sparrow on this. How a scene is depicted has a big effect on the meaning. In the Buckland Romani, a policeman is kneeling over the corpse with the swords/knives sticking out. With that image in my mind, maybe your role to play is that of the investigator or avenger, the one who sifts clues to tell the story of the dead...

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