Visions. by Robert Camp. Volume Two May 1994

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2 Visions by Robert Camp Volume Two May 1994

3 PUBLISHED BY SEVEN THUNDERS PUBLISHING COMPANY (925) COPYRIGHT 1994 BY ROBERT CAMP ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO PART OF THE BOOK MAY BE REPORDUCED OR TRANSMITTED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY MEANS, ELECTRONIC OR MECHANICAL, INCLUDING PHOTOCOPYING, RECORDING, OR BY ANY INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, WITHOUT THE WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE PUBLISHER, EXCEPT WHERE PERMITTED BY LAW. 2

4 Table of Contents Section One - Further Studies on the Cards of Your Destiny & Astrology THE LITTLE BOOK OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS 6 PLANETARY ASPECTS 8 THE CARD SUITS - THE EVOLUTION OF THE SOUL & PERSONALITY 9 MORE ON SOLAR VALUES & RELATIONSHIPS 11 ACCESSING THE HIGHEST POTENTIAL OF OUR BIRTH CARD 12 THE PLANETARY RULING CARD IN YOUR LIFE SPREAD 13 THE GRAND LAW OF KARMA 15 YOUR LIFE PATH CARDS AND THE LAW OF KARMA 16 FURTHER EXPLORATIONS INTO THE MYSTERIES OF THE KARMA CARDS 17 HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR WEEKLY READINGS 18 MORE ABOUT THE WEEKLY READING 20 LEARNING TO SPEAK "THE LANGUAGE OF THE CARDS" 21 THE K, THE CARD OF MASTERY AND POWER 22 THE QUEENS & THEIR FOUR PRICELESS GIFTS 24 NEW MEANINGS FOR THE SIXES 25 THE A AND THE SEARCH FOR SELF 26 SCANNING A READING FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF INFORMATION 27 OUR PLUTO AND RESULT CARDS 28 OUR SUN AND MOON CARDS 29 THE SATURN PLUTO CRUCIFIXION 30 NEPTUNE - THE GOD OF HIGHEST INTENTIONS AND GREATEST FANTASY 32 ABOUT THE ELEMENTS 34 Section Two - Reflections on Relationship WHY WE ARE ATTRACTED TO CERTAIN PEOPLE 36 THE INDICATORS OF MARRIAGE 38 THE MARRIAGE ABILITY OF THE CARDS 39 FEAR - THE HIDDEN DESTROYER OF RELATIONSHIPS 41 NEW FORMS OF RELATIONSHIPS IN THE COMING AGE OF AQUARIUS 42 RELATIONSHIPS IN THE NEW AGE 44 3

5 Section Three - Personal Growth and Development HOW TO ELIMINATE 80% OF YOUR PERSONAL PROBLEMS 47 PERSONAL POWER 50 THE DYNAMICS OF POWER 52 THE USE AND ABUSE OF POWER 53 STAYING IN THE COSMIC FLOW 54 FREE ENERGY 56 THE POWER OF ATTENTION 57 CONSCIOUSLY CHOOSING OUR WORK 58 THE STRUGGLE FACTOR 59 ANGER, BAD MEDICINE 61 NO ONE GETS OUT OF HERE ALIVE! 63 THE SECRET OF TIMING 63 TAKING OUT THE TRASH 64 THE LAWS OF PROSPERITY, PART I 65 THE LAWS OF PROSPERITY, PART II - SELF WORTH 68 GRATITUDE 70 THE POWER OF LOVE 71 Section Four - Reflections on Current Events COMMUNITY OR COMMUNISM? 75 SECRETS OF DAVID KORESH 77 BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON EXPOSED 79 4

6 Section One Further Studies on The Cards of Your Destiny & Astrology 5

7 The Little Book of the Seven Thunders "And when the Seven Thunders had uttered their voices I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, 'Seal up those things uttered by the Seven Thunders and write them not'." "And I took the little book out of the Angel's hand and devoured it; and to my taste it was sweet as honey; but as soon as I had devoured it, it became bitter unto my inside." "And he said unto me, 'You must prophesy again before many peoples and nations and tongues and kings." Book of Revelations Chapter Ten, Verses 4,10, and 11 With these words was the invocation given to those members of The Order of the Magi to take the knowledge of the planets (seven thunders) and their corresponding book, our deck of cards, and keep it secret until the time was right and the people of the earth were ready to receive it. The Order of the Magi, formed over 20,000 years ago has been responsible for keeping alive the most sacred knowledge of numbers, astrology and other scientific information since the days of Atlantis. These seers of old knew well of the secrets of the "little book" and so made sure that these cards were kept in tact and unchanged all this time. Historically, no one really knows where our deck of cards originate. The oldest known deck rests in The Royal Asiatic Museum. It is said to be 1100 years old. Again, every ancient civilization claims to have invented them. The Persians, Romans, Chinese and several other nations lay claim to their origination. However, a book written in 1893 laid to rest all the mystery surrounding our little book and revealed for the first time in history their profound mystical significance. This book is entitled "The Mystic Test Book" and was written by Olney H. Richmond, who, at that time, was the Grand Master of The Order of the Magi on Terra, the same order for which the verses in the Book of Revelations were written for. Born in 1844, Olney Richmond did not grow up thinking that his life held any special significance or meaning. But while serving during the Civil War in 1966 he was approached one night by a gentlemen who told him of his destiny and invited Olney to pay him a visit. Intrigued by the things the man had said, Olney went to the appointed meeting place the next night. There, Olney claims that the man "initiated" him with the "word", telling Olney that he was destined to rebuild the Temple of the Magi. Olney's only reply was that they had chosen the wrong man since he could not imagine that he would survive the war. The mysterious man replied that he would survive the war, that it was all meant to be and that he would go on to build the temple. Skeptical, Olney returned to his post and for the duration of the war he narrowly missed being killed on 4 or 5 occasions, each time seemingly guided by some unforeseen force or knowing. He still did not understand the information he had been given and had no way of furthering his understanding until 6 years later when he came upon a book that began his education into the sciences of number and symbols. Approximately twenty years later he founded The Temple of the Magi in Grand Rapids Michigan. It had taken him that long to learn and understand what he had been given. Olney quickly developed a reputation for doing supposed miracles with the cards and other phenomena. There are numerous accounts from reporters who came to interview him at the Temple and who were given live demonstrations of the mathematical basis of mystical and occult phenomena using the little book. His reputation grew and eventually he moved to Chicago where he established a larger Temple and where he remained until his death. His only published 6

8 work is The Mystic Test Book. But contained in that one little book is knowledge that has never been revealed before. Olney claims that the cards were around in Egypt and Atlantis, where they were used exclusively by the priests of the temples. These cards were made of ivory and were always held in highest esteem. After the fall of Egypt, the cards made their way into the hands of the Gypsies and others and were used for games and other amusements. Even so, Richmond claims that the cards have not changed significantly. The faces on our cards today are essentially the ones used in Egypt and Atlantis as well. When we look at our deck of cards we see a mystical system of time and symbols. Everything about our deck of cards has significance and their true knowledge reveals much about many spiritual truths. First of all, our deck of cards fits our calendar exactly. The four suits equal the four seasons and also the four kingdoms of Atlantis, which was a vast continent divided into four kingdoms by four great rivers. The two colors of the deck represent day (red) and night (black). The 52 cards represent our weeks in a year and the days in a week if we reduce it down to a =7, the number of days in a week and the number of visible planets for which our weekdays are named. There are 12 court cards representing the months in a year and the 12 signs of the zodiac. Finally, if we add up all the "spots" on the cards, where the Ace = 1, Jack = 11, Queen = 12 and Kings are 13, we get 364. Add to that the value of the Joker (5/4), we get exactly the number of days in our year. The Joker is the four suits plus himself making five quarters or 1 1/4. The calendar we use is the very same used in Egypt and Atlantis, from which it originated. The Romans were going to change it but Cleopatra convinced Julius Caesar of the value of the ancient calendar and so he adopted it. None of this is by accident. The Ace of Spades is always made larger than the other aces in the deck and if you ask a manufacturer of cards why they will tell you that it is because they always did it that way. The real reason, as Olney Richmond points out in his book, is that the Ace of Spades is the one card that symbolizes The Order of the Magi. It was actually used by many of the ancient mystery schools as their symbol. It represents the knowledge that lies hidden behind what we see and perceive. It is the card of "secrets" and the card of "transformation" of the soul. So we see that our common little book holds much more significance than we imagine at first glance. There is a lot more to the story than this. For within the knowledge of the cards, your birth date associates you as one of the 53 cards (52 plus the Joker). From this card one can predict your life with amazing accuracy and depth. Like your astrological sign, but much more in depth, your birth card reveals many secrets about your personal destiny, relationships and life lessons. To date, there have only been five books published on this amazing science, and only three remain in publication. My book, The Cards of Your Destiny, reveals the method used by Olney Richmond and others for doing predictions. With it you can accurately predict the events of any month and year of life. I invite you to explore this ancient tool, which has just now been made available to the public at large and is meant to be used by everyone with a desire for knowledge, truth and understanding. 7

9 Planetary Aspects Looking at an astrology chart, you will notice that many of the planets form aspects to each other while others do not. When planets do form aspects to each other, they are karmically bound, for better or worse, to interact with each other. This interaction will manifest itself in the chart owner's life either positively or negatively depending upon the aspect. I use the term positively and negatively loosely because this will depend of course on each individual's interpretation. However, stressful aspects such as the square and the opposition invariably require adjustments to the natural way the planets' energies would normally express themselves. This 'adjustment' is usually a painful process since one must stop the normal expression, reevaluate it in light of the other afflicting planet's influence and then try to find a harmonious solution to meeting the needs of the two energies. This is another way of looking at karma. I call the astrology chart a 'map of one's personal karma'. It can tell you exactly what types of experiences to expect and how you are likely to react to them. Planets that are in harmonious aspects are usually the result of past actions that helped others, good deeds as it were. Planets in stressful aspects result from unconsciously or consciously hurting others or interfering with their spiritual growth. In the current life, harmonious aspects will be experienced as gifts - ways of expression that are powerful and that have a likely chance of success. The two planets involved combine their energies harmoniously and add to each other's power. The result is an expression of combined energies that does not cause repercussions in others because there is no internal stress. In the personality, this would equivocate to two or more desires or needs that were in harmony with each other. Accomplishing one of these desires or needs fits in well with accomplishing the other. In the case of stressful aspects, we have a different story. Take the case of Sun Square Moon, a common and powerful stressful aspect that represents a basic inner conflict with one's male and female sides that requires conscious awareness to resolve. Externally this aspect coincides with someone who has difficulties with the opposite sex (represented by the conflict of the male (sun) and female(moon) planets). The person with with aspect also has difficulty fulfilling his or her inner need for security. The male side, which is usually where the person loves to express energy strongly and often in a masculine fashion, is in conflict with the same person's security needs and receptiveness. In males, it usually comes down to having a neglected emotional and needy side of the personality that has been totally rejected by the stronger, masculine side. The male and female sides are like two very different people who do not like each other's company. The trouble is that in the case of a square aspect, they are both present at the same time. These two planets are bound for life by that square aspect. First one side takes the lead strongly and is fully expressed until the pendulum swings and the other side steps into the driver's seat of the personality and takes over just as completely. Regardless of which side is in control, the opposing side is not being able to express itself and is just gathering energy to "push" its way back into the driver's seat. The person with this sort of planetary arrangement can have a profoundly sensitive side, an inner child that is overly needy, just like an actual child that is desperately seeking love and attention who has been neglected for a long time. There can be very large emotional swings as one part of the personality takes over from the other. These emotional swings leave others baffled and confused as the person seems to be a "Jekyl and Hyde". For this reason this aspect leads to difficulties in personal relationships. From a karmic point of view, square aspects such as the one mentioned are the actual result of doing harm to others in some past life. Taking our previous example of the Sun square Moon, we can imagine that this person, in some past incarnation, had been very dominating and 8

10 "masculine" with certain people who had, as a result of their words and actions, been made to feel very insecure and fearful, even threatened by their presence. Now, in this life, the other person has become them. They still retain the dominant masculine side of the personality but now they have, permanently installed within them, the traits of the other that they refused to acknowledge in the past incarnation. They literally "carry around with them" this fearful, insecure, whining, afraid personality that they ignored in the past. These square aspects teach us the value of sensitivity to others and how what we say and do affects those around us. This is an example of "bearing a cross", and often this cross is born for life. The solution to this aspect, as well as all other stressful ones is always to first become aware of the dynamics at play and then to make adjustments in behavior, always being aware of the two opposing points of view. Both planets must be able to express themselves and both must make concessions to the other in order to get its needs met. Any square aspect in one's natal chart will represent some past life of ignorance of some quality to the exclusion of others which will now need adjustment. Squares between inner planets (Sun through Mars) are ones that will usually be in effect for life. These aspects will always influence a person. However, as one becomes aware of the workings of these aspects and sensitizes oneself to the opposing factions within, one becomes able to harmonize and make the necessary adjustments to the point that these aspects no longer present a problem in one's life. If I am very identified with my masculine side and I have a Sun square Moon in my natal chart, then much of this process of adjustment is just the process of accepting and nourishing my female and sensitive side. In this case, the person usually enters the life with an actual fearbased hatred of weakness in others, which of course is now a part of themselves. A careful analysis of the squares in your natal chart will reveal valuable information about where you will have to "make the peace" between two sides of yourself that are naturally at war.from this example, one can get the true nature of astrological aspects and their connection to one's personal karma. The Card Suits - The Evolution of the Soul & Personality I have discovered something very interesting about the card personalities lately. As you know, hearts rule love and relationships and also rule the first period of our life. Florence Campbell gives this "hearts period" about 13 years. Clubs rule our thinking and communications processes and our second period of life, which goes until approximately age 39. Diamonds rule our values and finances and our third period of life which extends from age 39 to approximately age 60. Here we enter the spades period of life, which focuses on our health and most importantly, our spirituality. I have noticed that those born under the hearts suit have a child-like quality about them. They tend to relate to the child within us more than the adult. I have especially noticed that the 8, J, Q and the K cards, all power cards in the areas of relationships, can only wield power as applied to the child within us. Follow closely what I am saying here. If I have unresolved childhood issues, and who doesn't, a heart person may be able to control me (control is big for Kings and eights, especially eights) much like a parent controls a child. Favorite tactics of parent/child control is the withholding of love and affection, saying one thing while doing another, putting the child down and making them feel unworthy or shameful. Of course, this is the negative use of love power and many of these hearts birthdays do not use these tactics. But 9

11 then again, many others do. Also, those who have these powerful heart cards in their life spread, such as the 9, who has the K in Venus, can resort to these tactics at times. However, if we can apply our reason, which originates in our Clubs period, to someone trying to control us, their tactics are ineffective and powerless against us. Reason and logic conquer emotional manipulation. This is evidenced in the way most children rebel against their parents when they reach their teen years.they begin to fight back with their developing minds. If you personally have trouble with feeling rejected and manipulated by those in authority or those you love, you are probably stuck in some unresolved situation with a parent who used emotional/affectional control tactics on you. Use your reason and logic to overcome this. Similarly, values, the keynote of the diamonds, can overcome and overpower logic and reason. After all, our logic and reason always supports the things we want. Once, my master told me "You can't trust the mind, it will always give you good reasons for what you want, even if that thing is not good for you." You might say that the progression to the next suit represents a step up in evolution of consciousness, just as the change from one season to the next represents a new phase in the evolution of our earth and environment life cycle. In just the same way that a hearts person can manipulate us with fear of personal rejection, a clubs person may try to overpower us with their own "truth" or ideas. A well aligned and strong sense of values is protection against anyone's ideas, philosophies, beliefs and their manipulations. Take a 4 person as an example. Their values are strong, fixed as well. No matter what your logic, how high your truth, you will not be able to sway them unless you appeal to their sense of values and learn what they are. A diamonds person may try to manipulate you through your values. They are the salespeople of the deck and communicate on the level of values. Since our country is a J (July 4th) and we are the strongest of the superpowers, you can see that practically our entire world has been indoctrinated into our value system. Our media is filled with direct attacks aimed at manipulating what we buy and where we buy. This is a powerful form of control. The only protection from these assaults is spiritual awareness and will power, properties of the spades suit, which is the most powerful suit in the deck. Here we seek contact with our higher self and spirits on other planes of existence for guidance and direction. This inner direction can guide us through any assault and give us protection and blessings. Our will and determination, backed by this inner awareness, is complete protection from control by any outside forces. Look at any evolved spiritual master for proof of this. Spades are the last suit on the earthly level. The K, the last card in the deck, represents complete mastery. It is a wonder that so many spades people are unaware of their spiritual power. Instead, they focus on their work and watching their wonderful and powerful will create things in the world. 10

12 More on Solar Values & Relationships Earlier I published an article about the solar values of the cards and how you can add the values of two cards together to arrive at a card for the relationship. I want to clarify this and add a new dimension to this understanding. The Solar Value of the Cards A 1 A 14 A 27 A J 11 J 24 J 37 J 50 Q 12 Q 25 Q 38 Q 51 K 13 K 26 K 39 K 52 To refresh your memory, we get the card for a relationship by adding the solar values of the two cards. If the result is more than 52, we subtract 52 from it to get the solar value of the card of the relationship. For example, my card, the Q, has a solar value of 38. Katherine's card, the K, has a solar value of 26. Adding these together we get 64. Since this is more that 52, we subtract 52 from 64 to get is the solar value of the Q, the card of Katherine and my relationship. This card, the Q in this case, represents what we might do together and how the world might see us together. To understand this, you would have to read up on the Life Spread of a Q person and know more about the Q card. I won't go into this here except to say that this is one of the marriage cards. The next step is to find out what this relationship means to me and then to Katherine. To find out what this relationship is to me, and what I might be getting out of it, we add my card again, 38, to the 12 of the relationship. This gives us 50, which is the solar value of the J. For me, then, you might say that this relationship represents an initiation into spiritual life and understanding, the high side of the J. The low side of the J may also be present but that depends upon the people involved. For Katherine, the relationship added to her card yields a 38, the solar value of the Q, my card. So what she is getting out of the relationship could be termed me, first of all, and secondly, mastery of finances, business and marketing, some of the high side qualities of the Q. This slightly new perspective can be very useful in readings as it lends a new slant to two people operating together and what their inner motives might be for being in the relationship. 11

13 Accessing the Highest Potential of Our Birth Card It is sometimes amazing to me to note that among a group of people who all have the same birth card that there is such a diverse range of how much they are enjoying their life and how much of their potential they are realizing. Take for example the 8. As one of the three fixed cards having probably the best life path cards of any in the deck, you would naturally expect all 8 people to be very successful, creative, powerful and wealthy. I know some 8 people that are among some of the most successful in the world. Their lives are truly magical in most respects and they are very happy and contented with the successful nature of their life. On the other hand, there are many 8 that are struggling to get by, struggling with relationship issues, caught up in materiality and who are very unhappy and even poor in some cases. Something important is at work here, something that does not reveal itself upon casual observation. Much of a person's success in life seems to depend upon what they are doing with the inherent potential in their birth card. Wanting to derive some deeper understanding of the issues at work, I asked myself, 'how can I access the highest potential of my birth card?' and 'how can others do the same?'. Also, 'what are the underlying forces at play when a person is not living up to the potential inherent in their birth card?'. In Sacred Symbols of the Ancients, which is one of the best texts to date on the lives and characteristics of the various birth card personalities, it states that many people lose the power inherent in their birth card when they choose to operate as one of their personality cards. This I have seen to be true for many people and just this awareness alone can help a person change his or her focus and regain their success potential. In most cases, it is not recommended that someone follow the path of their personality cards. But in some cases it is. For example, if you are a Diamonds female, it is not recommended that you operate out of your Queen. Women are operating as their queen when they are romantically involved, or as Florence Campbell puts it, "Depending upon their feminine charms to get by". Whenever we choose to operate as one of our personality cards we also inherit the potential negative traits associated with that card. To make an accurate and useful determination of whether or not you would benefit from acting as one of your personality cards, you must study the descriptions of those cards to note their pros and cons. In other cases, Florence Campbell notes that to act out of one's personality card would be a step down in life potential. For example, K, 8, 10, and K people would all be taking a step down to operate as the Jack or Queen of their suit because these cards have such high potential in themselves. The people born under one of these birth cards should find their life's work and avoid the careless frivolity of the Jack or the feminine charm of the Queen. This does not mean that they cannot have relationships, as in the case of the Diamond females, but that their life's purpose should never play second fiddle to their romantic or immature sides. I have seen more than one K male whose life is going nowhere because they got so enthralled with the romantic pursuits and preoccupation of the infamous J, the actor's card. Remember that you were born under a certain birth card which has within itself a powerful potential. Study your own life path cards in Sacred Symbols to understand your strengths and highest potentials. It is here that you find the real secrets to a successful, productive and satisfying life. You chose to arrive on this planet on a certain day for a certain reason. Though we all have the ability to shift into our personality cards at any time, we sometimes miss the gifts that are inherent in our birth cards, gifts which, if activated, will give us more satisfaction than we thought possible. 12

14 The Planetary Ruling Card in Your Life Spread In Florence Campbell's book, Sacred Symbols of the Ancients, you will find a thorough and often surprisingly accurate description of your birth card. At the end of each description, she gives a mini-description for each of the individual birth dates that have the same birth card. Often, these descriptions are quite accurate and I always wondered where she derived this information. Was it just from her years of experience as a reader and teacher of the cards? Was it from the numerology of the birth date? I have found that it came from both of these sources but another source is also involved, one that is perhaps the most important of all - the Planetary Ruling Card. Let's find out what is your ruling card and then discuss its significance. First of all, if you don't have Florence's book, you must know that your Life Spread is the same as your Age 90 Spread. For purposes of this article, all you need to know is what are the direct cards in your Life Spread as they correspond to the various planets. The only ones we are concerned with are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The direct cards (the top cards in the Age 90 Spread) under each of these headings are the most important cards in your Life Spread and are used by Florence to synthesize her interpretation of your life and your personality traits. She uses other things as well, but these give most of the information. Take a look at your Age 90 Spread and see which are your direct cards under the headings as they appear in the book. Now, take your sun Sign and match it up with the appropriate planet from the list below: If you are a(n): Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces Your ruling planet is: Mars Venus Mercury Moon Sun Mercury Venus Mars & Pluto Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Now, look in your Age 90 Spread to see which of your cards falls under your ruling planet. For example, if you are a Taurus, you would look at your Venus card. If you are a Cancer or Leo, there is a special exception. My teacher, Arne Lein, said that the ruling card for all Leos is the 8 and the ruling card for all Cancers is the 10. I don't particularly agree with his theory, but it is worth looking into as I have noted that many Leos act like the 8 in terms of being proud and powerful. Being a Cancer myself and a teacher, I can relate to the 10 as a ruling card. However, it does not fall in my Life Spread and I know many Cancers that are not teachers so I question this way of looking at things. 13

15 The Moon R Card I have a new theory as it relates to those of us ruled by the Sun (Leos) and Moon (Cancers). That is that the "Sun" card is the same as our birth card and the "Moon" card is the one just behind it or before it in the Grand Solar Spread, sort of the opposite of our Mercury card. This is the same card that I defined as a South Nodal Card in a previous article. Since writing that article I have seen a deeper connection with this card, both in my life and in the life of others. Likewise I believe that our birth card is our strongest card if we are a Leo, since that is the most important card, the one that denotes our true soul (Sun) position for this life. How do you find this card? If you don't have The Advanced Oracle Workbook, you will have to look through the Age 90 Spreads of every card in the deck to see which card has your birth card as its direct Mercury card. For example if your birth card is the Q, you will find that the Q is the Age 90 Mercury card for the A. Therefore, your Moon card would be the A. If you happened to be a Cancer Q, born on July 16th, your planetary ruling card would be the A. For all of us, the Moon card defines what makes us feel secure or safe. I have found that many people marry their Moon card because that person helps them feel safe and secure. In the above example, the Q would tend to feel safer and more secure when they are studying and learning new things, acquiring knowledge (A ) and being with an A person would give them a feeling of safety and foundation. The moon is closely related to home and family and thus when we think of settling down and creating stability in our lives, we will often choose our Moon card as a mate. Look at your Moon card and ask yourself how the qualities of that card somehow relfect what helps you feel safer, more secure and gives you the feeling of having more foundation in your life. Just to review then, your Planetary Ruling Card will be the one card in your life spread that corresponds to the planet that rules your sun sign. If I am a Virgo 9, my Planetary ruling card would be the 9 since that is the Mercury card in my Life Sread and Virgo is ruled by the planet Mercury. Look at your Planetary Ruling Card and see what special significance it holds for you. My research has shown that our Planetary Ruling Card best describes our occupation and how we show up to the world. It might be considered to correspond to the Midheaven, or possibly Ascendant in astrology, though I hesitate to make conclusions like that without proof. However, we can look at it as the card in our Life Spread through which we express ourselves the most. It can be like a mask that we wear or indicate which of our Life Spread cards that we most express ourselves through. For further study I suggest you read Sacred Symbols of the Ancients and see what she says about your particular birth date at the end of the chapter on your birth card. Then you will see how she generated an interpretation and see the connection, in most cases, to the Planetary Ruling Card. 14

16 The Grand Law of Karma Many people believe that God, or some higher power, is constantly overseeing our actions and giving us immediate retribution as we go about life. When they talk about this, I get the picture of some magnificent being who is very, very busy. Can you imagine any being who had to keep track of 4 billion people's lives and make sure that each was getting his or her just rewards. Once, my master, Yogi Amrit Desai, was asked about this. He said that God just made the Law and the Law takes care of the details. That one universal Law is the Law of Karma. Gurudev said that God does not have to reward or punish people for their deeds, the Law of Karma does that for Him. There was a funny song released on a tape by the disciples of Yogi Bhagan called "Captain Karma" that told how Captain Karma was the Lord's own right hand man, taking care of the nasty business of delivering just rewards and punishments to all of us mortals. Our first exposure to the Law of Karma comes from physics class in high school. "Every action creates and equal and opposite reaction" so the Law of Cause and Effect is stated. Scientists have proven this law again and again, and upon it rests much of what we now call modern science. It is an immutable law. It cannot be changed or altered and is always, and has always been, in effect. It is a wonder then that so many of our present day scientists doubt the theory of reincarnation. The Law of Cause and Effect and the theory of reincarnation go hand in hand. Another way of stating this law that is often used in physics is that "for every effect, there must be a cause". For example, if I see a ball rolling across the floor, an effect, I know that something must have set it into motion, the cause. I remember having to solve many physics problems that started with an effect looking for a cause. Now, the same law applies in our lives, and yet, for some reason, our scientists have failed to extend the law beyond the boundaries of molecular physics or rubber balls rolling around in the laboratories. Little do they know that every area of our life is directly affected by this law. How often does the average person question the things that happen during the day and ask, "What is the cause of this?"? There are so many people today who instead believe that they are the victims of the world, that something bad may happen to them at any minute, that there is such a thing as "luck", both good and bad. Mesha Rose, the main channel for the Order of the Magi, and a woman that I consider to be my teacher, once told me, "Never forget this - there are no coincidents, and there is no such thing as luck!. Everything has a cause and a reason." I have found that the more I choose to view the things that happen in my life as having been created by me, the more sense everything makes and the more powerful I feel. I now see that my thoughts have power. Most everything that happens in my life is the result of a thought or desire taking shape before my eyes. Sometimes it gets kind of spooky how things show up. I now believe that we get EVERYTHING we want, sooner or later. There is no luck, folks, and there never was. To believe in luck is to relinquish your power. This also applies to coincidences. See every event in your life as bringing you something you thought of or desired and you will begin to realize that you are powerful! Every thought, word and action that you create is a CAUSE that must have an EFFECT. You are the Creator and your word is your magic wand that is constantly creating your Destiny. 15

17 Your Life-Path Cards & The Law of Karma Knowing that every cause has an effect and that every effect has a cause, we now can look at the cards in our life with a different slant. If it is at all true that these cards reflect what is going to happen in your life, then they must be somehow connected to your personal karma. Since these cards were determined the moment you were born, it also stands to reason that these events, or EFFECTS that these cards represent have CAUSES that occurred somewhere else, at some other time. This has to have been in a previous incarnation, nothing else explains it. For the advanced student of metaphysics, this information seems like "Spirituality 101" but a thorough discussion of this basic and vital subject is necessary for many who are just being introduced to a concept as "out there" as the Cards of Your Destiny. So then, our Life Path cards are simply a "map" of our personal karma. They show us, by reflection, what sorts of things we have done in our past lives for which we are now collecting rewards or paying debts. The Venus and Jupiter cards, cards that are in Jupiter Lines or Columns of the Grand Solar Spreads*, and the occurrences of Fours, Eights, Tens, Jacks, Queens and Kings primarily show us areas where we have accumulated good fortune by helping others and developing talents within ourselves that were used to help others or to benefit them in some way. Our Saturn card and Pluto card, Life Path cards that are in the Saturn Lines and Columns, as well as the occurrences of Sevens and Nines show us the areas where we have abused power, developed negative habits, or hurt others in the past and for which we are now encountering the results of our actions. These same cards show us where, in the present life, we will experience "instant karma" or immediate payback for unconscious acts in the present life. Look at the cards in your Life Spread (or Life Path, they are the same thing) and see which represent your earned "gifts" and which represent your earned "liabilities". Here is an example to show how it works better: In a past life, let's say that you were very powerful, maybe a K. Let us say, for example, that you were a political figure who had the power to either hurt many people or to hurt others and let us say that because of a fear of poverty, you never allowed yourself to experience or feel, that you did everything in your power to accumulate as much wealth as you could. In that life you excused yourself for hurting others and taking away their property by telling yourself that 'we each get what we deserve. Perhaps you played God with others' lives and fortunes and many were put into situations of poverty and fear by your actions. Let us say, also, that you never realized what you were doing in that life and you never had any experiences that would indicate that you paid off the karma you created then. Now, in the current life, you are born as a Q. This card has more fear about money than almost any other card in the deck. The power is there along with the habit of appearing "high up" in a social sense. But the fear often drags them down. All but one of the Life Path cards is in the Saturn Line. In this life you face the results of your past life at every turn. As you grow up it seems that you are unfairly punished for things that you do. You grow up in a family where there is not enough to eat. You unconsciously sense that you should be in a family of high standing, your past life memories, but now you are in a family of desperation. You feel punished by God and the universe and you feel guilty for something that you can't remember you did. You begin to believe that there is something inherently wrong about you and that you don't deserve to be happy or prosperous. You grow up worrying about money all the time. In this life you cannot ignore this deep set fear of poverty that seems to steal away your peace of mind at every step of the way. 16

18 This is the story for many Q. You can ask them and they will tell you. Of course not all are exactly like this, but many are. Every card's life path can manifest itself in many different ways because each card can be accessed on higher or lower levels by the individual. If a person is spiritually aware, he or she will always get better results out of a seemingly difficult life path. How else could four of the Grand Masters of the Order of the Magi since 1890, including Olney Richmond, be the 3 birth card, another of the most difficult cards in the deck? However, being spiritual does not relieve us of our karmic burden. All of us, no matter who we are, must bear the responsibility for what we have done in the past. This includes those things that we are doing today as well. As I mentioned earlier, we are the creators. We now create the causes of the effects coming in our future. A little aside is that Tiara, a being that is channeled by Valina Rockford, one of our teachers, once said that in this age of great transition and accelerated growth of the entire planet, we can no longer put karma aside for future incarnations. She said that we all must pay our debts now, in this current incarnation, because of the forces at work at this critical juncture in history. This put everything into a new perspective for me and gave me cause to reflect about my actions in the current time of my life. Further Explorations into the Mysteries of the Karma Cards Little information is given in The Cards of Your Destiny about the Karma Cards. The information given is meant as an introduction to what is a vast subject. In fact the karma cards have many important uses and deserve more explanation so that they can be used effectively. In Florence Campbell's, book, Sacred Symbols of the Ancients, which I highly recommend, she calls these cards "displacement cards", derived from the fact that our Karma Cards displace us in the Age 89 and 90 Spreads. She will often talk about an individual's personality more in reference to their displacement card than their Birth Card. This is easier to illustrate if you look at the Mundane (Age 90) and Natural (Age 89) Spreads laid out in the Grand Solar array, copies of which are found in the previous newsletter, Florence's book, The Advanced Oracle Workbook and The Card Reader's Mini-Book. As you compare the "position", by line and column, of your Birth Card in each spread and see which card is found in the same position in the other spread, you will see your Karma Cards there. This is where they come from but there is more to their story. Your Karma cards represent other facets, often hidden, to your own personality. If you are a 3, for example, your 6 Karma Card, tells us that you also have some karmic love debts to pay, like the 6 of Hearts. Along with these debts comes the notion of "Christ love" and "destined mission for love", other possible ways of manifesting the 6 pattern in your life. Look at your Karma cards and see if their life paths match yours in many ways and if you possess some of their qualities. Our Karma cards are mirrors of ourselves, often the mirrors that we don't want to see. Sometimes when we meet someone who is our Karma card, we immediately like them and then dislike them as we discover what they are like. Just remember the powerful truth that we can only see in others what is inside of ourselves. If we don't love ourselves, we will not love our Karma Card friends and lovers either. This is why relationships with Karma Cards can be some of the most difficult AND long lasting. Some of us need a strong mirror held in front of us to see what we are like. However, not all Karma Card relationships are difficult. Some are very pleasant and very intimate. The connections are deep with these people. 17

19 Now here are some new things you can do with Karma Cards that most of you have never done or heard of. I have known about these for a while but was wanting to test them out before I talked about them. I have seen in my own life their relevance so I now make these known. First of all, you can read your Karma Cards' Yearly and Life spreads as your own, and in many cases, these spreads are more significant than your personality card spreads. So, if your birthday card is a 10, you can read the yearly spreads for the Q and the Q, your two Karma Cards. These spreads often reveal in depth information about your life. I have found the spread for the first Karma Card is more significant, but others have told me that their second Karma Card's spread is the more significant. Perhaps it depends upon the individual's personal bent as to which card they manifest the most. Next, you can look for the Karma Cards of your friends, associates, family and lovers in your spreads for relationship comparisons. This is especially important, as anyone who is studying the Advanced Workbook will tell you. Often the Birth Card to Karma Card or Karma Card to Karma Card connection between two people is the most significant they have. No relationship comparison is complete without them. For example, one of my wife's Karma Cards is the 8. In the Age 90 spread for the 8 you will find my birth card, the Q, in the direct Mars position. This is a strong influence. Likewise, one of my Karma Cards is the 9 and in its Age 90 spread, you will find Katherine's K birth card in Mars. This gives us a double Mars connection, which indeed describes our relationship. This is important in many relationship comparisons because in cases such as ours, there is no direct connection between the birth cards. In other words, you will not find the Q in the K Age 89 and 90 spreads and vice versa. I invite you to start reading the Yearly Spreads for your Karma cards. However, this does not apply if you are one of the three fixed cards, the K, J and 8. These three cards have chosen to have no direct karmic cousins and are not displaced by any other cards. The four semifixed cards, the A, 2, 7 and 9, should only look at the spreads for their singular karma card as listed in the book. How to Get the Most out of Your Weekly Readings The weekly readings taught in my workshops and in the Card of Your Destiny fulfill a vital purpose, both for beginners and for the advanced student of the cards. For beginners, they are able to get cards every day and every week that can be compared with the experiences and relationships in their lives so that they learn the meanings of the cards by experience. This is vital as the true meanings of the cards only reveal themselves to those who are sincerely interested in using this system for themselves. Once we have experienced what happens in our lives and have compared that to the cards we see in our weekly reading, we learn in a way that sinks in and becomes a part of our understanding. Later, when we share this understanding with others, whether we are giving them a reading or simply telling them about this system, we speak with power and conviction. Once the language of the cards becomes part of our vocabulary, the weekly readings serve as a useful guide that reflect back to us what we are doing, saying and thinking. It becomes almost like a friend that reflects different parts of ourselves, often challenging us to rise up to higher standards of behavior and relating. This week, for example, I have a 3 as my Long Range card. Sometimes I look at this card and tell myself, 'Oh great, another week of worry and indecision.'. But this week I consciously chose to look at it and tell myself, 'Oh great, now I will have all the creativity I need to get some writing done!'. Well, here I am writing, and it is flowing 18

20 very well. I have programmed myself in the past 6 months to think "creativity" whenever the 3 appears. In a way, I have created a positive association with that card that always inspires me to write. This is what each of us can do with the weekly readings. But there is more. I want to share with you exactly how I do a weekly reading, how I look at it and what I think about it so that I get the most results possible for my life and use it as a tool to bring me more happiness and fulfillment. First of all, I always light a candle and say a prayer just before I cut the cards for my weekly reading. I pray to my spirit guides and masters to teach me and ask them to use these cards to give me messages that will lead me to the light. Then I drop any desire for the cards to turn out in any certain way and promise that I will be open to what the cards are for the week and that I will learn from them. This, in itself, increases the chances that I will get positive results from these cards. Keep in mind that I want to use this reading to lift myself up to a higher level. It has become a ritual for me that keeps me connected to my spiritual path. After I have laid the cards out, I first look for all the signs of success, power, and good fortune. First I look for the obvious. I look at the Jupiter card in the first row as representing what or whom will be a major source of blessings for me this week. Remember that every card manifests positively under Jupiter's influence. Next, I look for power, satisfaction and accomplishment cards. These are the Fours, Eights, Tens and the Face Cards in either the first row or the top row (Long Range, Pluto, Result and Environment). All of these cards represent success and satisfaction in one or more areas. Just having one of these cards in my reading is enough to give me a happy expectation of the week ahead and to feel safe and prosperous. Last week I had some pretty tough cards. As I laid them out, there were none of the "good" cards anywhere in the top row or the Long Range, Pluto or Result. Then I turned the deck over to see the Environment card for the week and it was an 8. I sighed a relief and knew that nothing negative could possibly happen to me that week. The next thing I do is look at the top row of cards (numbers 1-7) and see what the week has in store. I look at them like this: Mercury Card - tells me what I will be thinking about this week. Venus Card - tells me who I will be having affection for or what I will love this week. Mars Card - tells me what will inspire me to action or what will anger me this week. Jupiter Card - tells me where my biggest source of blessings are for the week. Saturn Card - tells me what this weeks biggest lessons will be about. Uranus Card - tells me what will surprise me this week or what spiritual things will be occurring. Neptune Card - tells me what I will be dreaming about this week. Who or what is in my dreams, hopes, secret desires, etc. Of course, there are other meanings for the cards but these are the general ones that I attach to the first seven cards. The last thing I do is look for cards that I don't understand at all. I watch carefully as the week progresses for signs that would indicate the true meaning of the cards. There is usually a secret message hidden for me in these cards. I keep an open mind and let the events of the week be my teacher. I am still learning new things about the cards every week and I hope you are too. 19