Is there a karmic connection that binds you to the closest people in your life? How can you identify a soul mate, twin soul, or cosmic partner and use that awareness for spiritual growth and fulfillment in this lifetime?
Professional astrologer Ruth Aharoni tells how to decipher the karmic "signature" in your birth chart to gain valuable insight into your karmic connections with others. Designed for astrology buffs at an advanced beginner through professional level, Karmic Astrology reveals the distinctive karmic characteristics revealed in the birth chart's signs, planets, houses, nodes, and elements, and tells how to identify important cosmic relationships through chart comparison.
This one-of-a-kind book explores spiritual attraction and explains why we choose a certain mate, what can be done to attract the right mate, and how we can improve our present relationships with friends, family members, and a lover or spouse. You'll gain an awareness of your past life connections and learn to live a more love-filled life this time around with the help of this fascinating guide that:
—Explains the difference between a karmic and cosmic relationship
—Compares personal karma, couple karma, soul mates, and cosmic couplehood
—Analyzes the combined charts of Edgar Cayce, his wife, and his secretary
—Features chakra meditations for improving karmic relationships
—Offers meditations to help you find your soul mate
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Ruth Aharoni (Israel) is a professional astrologer and certified yoga teacher, with over twenty-five years of experience in both fields. She holds a B.A. in literature and philosophy, and is also a certified Life Coach and NLP practitioner. She is the author of several books on yoga, astrology, channeling, tarot, and children¹s books for body and soul, and conducts workshops on spiritual growth and self-empowerment.
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CHAPTER ONE
karma, incarnations, and the birth chart
Upon bursting forth from the womb
The passing moment was imprinted
By the celestial seal
And the universal soul inspired in you
The touch of immortality.
-Ruth Aharoni
The word karma has by now earned itself a respected place in our language, having been accepted into the modern-day lexicon. In popular use, karma means "fate," yet this usage is simplistic and compromises the dignity of the original meaning.
The literal meaning of karma in Sanskrit, the ancient Indian language from which it came, is "action" or "act"; that is to say that any action-physical or mental-is karma. Deeds are physical karma, and thoughts, emotions, desire, imagination, and will are mental karma. Mental action precedes physical action, or actually creates it; that is, every deed or act is preceded by an initial thought.
Yet karma is not only action; it is also the result of every action, because the result is actually an integral part of the action. Every phenomenon has a cause. The spinning and the spinner-or the cause and the result-are intertwined, and herein originates the law of karma, which is actually the law of causality.
The world is driven by the law of karma, which is a natural law to which all other natural laws are subordinate. The law of inertia, the law of cause and effect, and the law of reward and retribution are all contained within the larger law of causality.
Exodus 21:22 expresses the law of reward and retribution blatantly: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," meaning that whoever harms will be harmed, no matter when, where, or by whom. Good deeds bring reward, and bad deeds bring punishment. An eye for an eye means that for every action, there must be a response, which will always be identical in degree and similar in kind. What we did for someone or harm that we caused someone in a former life will come back to us in this life or a life to come, just as a boomerang returns to its thrower. The deeper meaning of this concept is that certain difficulties that we experience have their origins in our soul's readiness to experience in this life injustices that we inflicted upon others in past lives, in order for us to learn from this.
At the foundation of the law of karma lies the belief that life is an ongoing experience that is not limited to one incarnation. In order to find the cause of a certain event that happened to us, it is not enough to look in the present life; we must also examine previous lives. Life does not end with the death of the body; the soul is eternal and continues to live. What happens to us in the present may be the consequence of something that happened in the near or ancient past.
Our mental, physical, familial, and economic conditions are all the consequences of all of our past lives, of our accumulated karma.
This world has no chaos or caprice; things don't happen by coincidence. There is a logical sequence of actions and consequences, with a connection between what we have done in the past and what will happen to us in the future. It's not a matter of payback or punishment handed down from above. It's not that injustice or discrimination are being manipulated by some transcendental force, making one or the other of us rich or poor, happy or miserable.
Each of us is responsible for our own deeds, and as such, for the results of those deeds; herein lies justice in its purest form. When our vision is limited, we fail to understand this law, so that we define what happens to us as simply "our fate." Yet if we understand that our present life is only the blink of an eye in relation to the entire life of our soul, then we can understand that there is a karmic scale upon which everything is measured and weighed.
The universal law of karma operates everywhere, all the time, without a break, and with scientific precision. It operates on both the physical and the mental level, and it is actually a means of achieving universal justice and cosmic balance. It is a law that places every one of us in situations that enable lessons to be learned-lessons necessary for our spiritual development.
Karma can be divided into three categories:
Sanchita: This term refers to the reservoir of karma-good or bad-that we have accumulated over many incarnations. In each incarnation, only some of this reservoir is activated, as activation of all of it would overwhelm us both physically and mentally. Part of this karmic backlog is embodied in the character of the individual, in his or her qualities, tendencies, talents, aspirations, and desires.
Prarabdha: This is considered fate, or the karma that we must withstand in this life. There is no escaping prarabdha, and it is unchangeable. Prarabdha is the part of karma that is incumbent upon each individual to complete or to balance in this life. This karma is determined prior to birth by a person's soul; the chosen karma must happen, and is experienced by the person as fate.
Kriyamana: This is the karma that we create in this life, and we deal with its consequences later. This karma goes into our overall "karmic bank account," or sanchita. Our objective in this life should be to create good karma and endeavor to avoid creating bad karma. If we "collect points" for good deeds, then we can add them to our positive balance, whose fruits we can enjoy in the future. If we "use up our credit," then we'll be in karmic debt, which we'll have to cover in the future. Each of us has freedom of choice and free will at any given moment, and these determine our deeds; today's deed-karma becomes tomorrow's fate-karma.
As long as we reincarnate, we are subordinate to the law of karma. The karmic patterns with which we must cope can help us grapple with our fate with understanding, patience, and reinforced energy.
Each of us must be born again and again until we reach self-knowledge, or the true and eternal self, which is the godhood in each of us. Our souls contain all of the potential godly energies, and the reason for the soul's entry into the physical world is to provide the experiences necessary to activate these energies and transform them from the potential to the actual. The repeating physical embodiment of the soul happens, among other reasons, so that spiritual lessons such as love, compassion, tolerance, moderation, balance, humility, purity of heart, giving, and devotion can be learned.
The imprints of everything that an individual has ever experienced are absorbed and stored in the consciousness. The consciousness does not need the body, and does not wear out with the perishing of the body that the soul "wears" in each incarnation. These imprints are activated throughout the incarnations, and the end of the cycle of incarnations is anticipated only when the soul has evolved-when it has experienced and learned enough in the physical world, and no longer has the will to be reborn, which is the force that drives it to come back and assume a physical form.
It is incumbent upon the soul to reach a level of consciousness that goes beyond the dictates of either karma or illusion, both of which are created in the world of three dimensions. The fundamental objective of reincarnation is the soul's improvement and evolution, and the number of times that a person must return and be born depends upon the degree of improvement that the soul takes upon itself in each incarnation.
One of the main motivators for a soul to begin anew is its need to experience freedom of choice. The soul needs a physical body, because only in the physical world does it occupy a position of choice, which it did not have when it was a part of the pure cosmic consciousness.
According to the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical writings, the task on behalf of which the soul departs from the soul of the Creation is its will to achieve the good of the Creator out of merit, not out of charity; as such, it is "poised at the starting line" of the path of incarnations to begin the "race." Its goal is the capacity for giving, and it will reach the finish line when it has learned to give only in tandem with the body, which, in Kabbalistic terms, contains within it "the will to receive for its own sake." Only then can the soul create completeness, or "the will to receive in order to give." When this task has been achieved, the soul no longer has need of physical embodiment.
In the breaks between lives, we have a broader vision than we do during our sojourn on Earth, and we process our understanding of all of our earthly experiences. This knowledge helps us choose and plan what we will experience the next time around.
The dilemma of "all is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is given" is solved when we accept reincarnation. Before each incarnation, we decide, aided by the cosmic forces, what objectives we want to fulfill, what lessons we still need to learn, and which path will balance our karma. Karma, even when manifested as a difficult fate, is the result of our soul's freedom of choice and free will. Karma is revealed when the time is right in order to give us an opportunity to balance and to repair.
When we try with all our being to change events or situations in our lives, but do not succeed in doing so, it is a sign that such events were planned in advance by our soul so that it could experience them. We have agreed in advance to rise to the task or challenge. Bereavement, illness, accidents, loss of property, and other painful events have their source in "repair work" that was planned in advance, whose purpose is to create an opportunity for spiritual growth and progress. The birth experience causes us to forget these choices, but understanding the meaning of suffering enables us to draw from these pre-made choices as a source of strength and an impetus for personal development.
The way we react to situations and events also depends on ...
karma, incarnations, and the birth chart
Upon bursting forth from the womb
The passing moment was imprinted
By the celestial seal
And the universal soul inspired in you
The touch of immortality.
-Ruth Aharoni
The word karma has by now earned itself a respected place in our language, having been accepted into the modern-day lexicon. In popular use, karma means "fate," yet this usage is simplistic and compromises the dignity of the original meaning.
The literal meaning of karma in Sanskrit, the ancient Indian language from which it came, is "action" or "act"; that is to say that any action-physical or mental-is karma. Deeds are physical karma, and thoughts, emotions, desire, imagination, and will are mental karma. Mental action precedes physical action, or actually creates it; that is, every deed or act is preceded by an initial thought.
Yet karma is not only action; it is also the result of every action, because the result is actually an integral part of the action. Every phenomenon has a cause. The spinning and the spinner-or the cause and the result-are intertwined, and herein originates the law of karma, which is actually the law of causality.
The world is driven by the law of karma, which is a natural law to which all other natural laws are subordinate. The law of inertia, the law of cause and effect, and the law of reward and retribution are all contained within the larger law of causality.
Exodus 21:22 expresses the law of reward and retribution blatantly: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," meaning that whoever harms will be harmed, no matter when, where, or by whom. Good deeds bring reward, and bad deeds bring punishment. An eye for an eye means that for every action, there must be a response, which will always be identical in degree and similar in kind. What we did for someone or harm that we caused someone in a former life will come back to us in this life or a life to come, just as a boomerang returns to its thrower. The deeper meaning of this concept is that certain difficulties that we experience have their origins in our soul's readiness to experience in this life injustices that we inflicted upon others in past lives, in order for us to learn from this.
At the foundation of the law of karma lies the belief that life is an ongoing experience that is not limited to one incarnation. In order to find the cause of a certain event that happened to us, it is not enough to look in the present life; we must also examine previous lives. Life does not end with the death of the body; the soul is eternal and continues to live. What happens to us in the present may be the consequence of something that happened in the near or ancient past.
Our mental, physical, familial, and economic conditions are all the consequences of all of our past lives, of our accumulated karma.
This world has no chaos or caprice; things don't happen by coincidence. There is a logical sequence of actions and consequences, with a connection between what we have done in the past and what will happen to us in the future. It's not a matter of payback or punishment handed down from above. It's not that injustice or discrimination are being manipulated by some transcendental force, making one or the other of us rich or poor, happy or miserable.
Each of us is responsible for our own deeds, and as such, for the results of those deeds; herein lies justice in its purest form. When our vision is limited, we fail to understand this law, so that we define what happens to us as simply "our fate." Yet if we understand that our present life is only the blink of an eye in relation to the entire life of our soul, then we can understand that there is a karmic scale upon which everything is measured and weighed.
The universal law of karma operates everywhere, all the time, without a break, and with scientific precision. It operates on both the physical and the mental level, and it is actually a means of achieving universal justice and cosmic balance. It is a law that places every one of us in situations that enable lessons to be learned-lessons necessary for our spiritual development.
Karma can be divided into three categories:
Sanchita: This term refers to the reservoir of karma-good or bad-that we have accumulated over many incarnations. In each incarnation, only some of this reservoir is activated, as activation of all of it would overwhelm us both physically and mentally. Part of this karmic backlog is embodied in the character of the individual, in his or her qualities, tendencies, talents, aspirations, and desires.
Prarabdha: This is considered fate, or the karma that we must withstand in this life. There is no escaping prarabdha, and it is unchangeable. Prarabdha is the part of karma that is incumbent upon each individual to complete or to balance in this life. This karma is determined prior to birth by a person's soul; the chosen karma must happen, and is experienced by the person as fate.
Kriyamana: This is the karma that we create in this life, and we deal with its consequences later. This karma goes into our overall "karmic bank account," or sanchita. Our objective in this life should be to create good karma and endeavor to avoid creating bad karma. If we "collect points" for good deeds, then we can add them to our positive balance, whose fruits we can enjoy in the future. If we "use up our credit," then we'll be in karmic debt, which we'll have to cover in the future. Each of us has freedom of choice and free will at any given moment, and these determine our deeds; today's deed-karma becomes tomorrow's fate-karma.
As long as we reincarnate, we are subordinate to the law of karma. The karmic patterns with which we must cope can help us grapple with our fate with understanding, patience, and reinforced energy.
Each of us must be born again and again until we reach self-knowledge, or the true and eternal self, which is the godhood in each of us. Our souls contain all of the potential godly energies, and the reason for the soul's entry into the physical world is to provide the experiences necessary to activate these energies and transform them from the potential to the actual. The repeating physical embodiment of the soul happens, among other reasons, so that spiritual lessons such as love, compassion, tolerance, moderation, balance, humility, purity of heart, giving, and devotion can be learned.
The imprints of everything that an individual has ever experienced are absorbed and stored in the consciousness. The consciousness does not need the body, and does not wear out with the perishing of the body that the soul "wears" in each incarnation. These imprints are activated throughout the incarnations, and the end of the cycle of incarnations is anticipated only when the soul has evolved-when it has experienced and learned enough in the physical world, and no longer has the will to be reborn, which is the force that drives it to come back and assume a physical form.
It is incumbent upon the soul to reach a level of consciousness that goes beyond the dictates of either karma or illusion, both of which are created in the world of three dimensions. The fundamental objective of reincarnation is the soul's improvement and evolution, and the number of times that a person must return and be born depends upon the degree of improvement that the soul takes upon itself in each incarnation.
One of the main motivators for a soul to begin anew is its need to experience freedom of choice. The soul needs a physical body, because only in the physical world does it occupy a position of choice, which it did not have when it was a part of the pure cosmic consciousness.
According to the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical writings, the task on behalf of which the soul departs from the soul of the Creation is its will to achieve the good of the Creator out of merit, not out of charity; as such, it is "poised at the starting line" of the path of incarnations to begin the "race." Its goal is the capacity for giving, and it will reach the finish line when it has learned to give only in tandem with the body, which, in Kabbalistic terms, contains within it "the will to receive for its own sake." Only then can the soul create completeness, or "the will to receive in order to give." When this task has been achieved, the soul no longer has need of physical embodiment.
In the breaks between lives, we have a broader vision than we do during our sojourn on Earth, and we process our understanding of all of our earthly experiences. This knowledge helps us choose and plan what we will experience the next time around.
The dilemma of "all is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is given" is solved when we accept reincarnation. Before each incarnation, we decide, aided by the cosmic forces, what objectives we want to fulfill, what lessons we still need to learn, and which path will balance our karma. Karma, even when manifested as a difficult fate, is the result of our soul's freedom of choice and free will. Karma is revealed when the time is right in order to give us an opportunity to balance and to repair.
When we try with all our being to change events or situations in our lives, but do not succeed in doing so, it is a sign that such events were planned in advance by our soul so that it could experience them. We have agreed in advance to rise to the task or challenge. Bereavement, illness, accidents, loss of property, and other painful events have their source in "repair work" that was planned in advance, whose purpose is to create an opportunity for spiritual growth and progress. The birth experience causes us to forget these choices, but understanding the meaning of suffering enables us to draw from these pre-made choices as a source of strength and an impetus for personal development.
The way we react to situations and events also depends on ...
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This is so far the best book I have read on astrology.
It reads like a dream and it flows with love from Ruth's heart, you can feel the love that went into getting this book out. I got so much from this one book more than I have from many other astrology books that I have read, which seem to come more from the mind, or the intellect rather than the heart. If you have been wondering why this karma? Or what does this experience mean to you in this life, this book definelty gives a good starting point to understand and balance your karmic purpose to yourself and others around you. It really allow oneself to accept karmic responsibility whatever the dual nature of it maybe in progressing towards resolving them, at least for me it did wonders! Enjoy this book.
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When I purchased this book, I was under the impression that it was more in-depth than it actually is. After receiving it, I was disappointed. This is essentially a thin - though very well written - introduction to karmic astrology, written mainly for readers who are unacquainted with the concept of synastry. As an astrological primer, it does not provide an extensive breakdown of synastric aspects between two charts, or mutual planetary positions.
However, what it does provide is very thoughtful and useful insight into the mysteries of karma and reincarnation from a kabbalistic viewpoint. From that standpoint, a very good read.
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When I was first learning Astrology, there were not a great deal of user friendly books out there....Now that I help other people with their Astrological studies, I look for books that both beginners and seasoned Astrologers will benefit from.....This book is perfect for that...
Students want answers that they can relate too....they want to FEEL where this piece of the puzzle fits in their lives....They can take this info and place it their own personal realm......This fits there why? One piece touches another piece, which then touches another...The whole picture starts to make more sense, it comes into focus and all of a sudden, we have an understanding which was not there before. Use this book to create your own work of art....this book makes reality more comfortable than fiction.....It's all really easy when you can SEE it.....It helps to touch what you're feeling..
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