Is it possible to see ancestral karma with tarot cards?

[Stefany]

I am writing to you because of my great despair. This tarot reader told me that I have my mother's karma (because I am the second child) and all my relationships will fall apart for no reason because of it. Is this possible? I am very scared! She looked at my entire life in general. For the reading, the woman only uses major arcana. She used the romany tarot spread. With a row for past, present and future. I apologize again for troubling you. My mother was indeed separated from my father, but she always spoke lovingly of him to me and told me she loved him until his death. We also don't have many divorces in our family history. Only one on my mother's side, with my great-grandparents (my grandfather's parents). I feel doomed, as if my life is doomed in this area because of her words. I am 19 years old, in the past I had a relationship for 2 years, it ended at the boy's will, but it wasn't without reason, it was exhausted and we argued about things, there were many unresolved issues. I am very worried, the woman guessed some things about my past, and she didn't ask for money, so I trusted her... Now I am in a relationship and I am happy, but I am very afraid that this bad karma of mine will always ruin my romantic relationships. The woman also told me that my brother, as the first child, has our father's karma, but since our father died of a stroke, and according to her, a stroke is a karmic illness, he has redeemed his karma, while mine remains.

[gregory]

I'd find another reader. This one sounds like a person with their own agenda, Has she perhaps offered to clear it all for you ?

[Misterei]

@Stefany We ALL carry our parents' karma. This is a normal part of the human experience and nothing to worry about. We have their karma, their DNA, and their blood in our veins. Every human everywhere.

 

As @gregory suggests ... some readers might try to twist this natural fact into scam to "clear" the "negative karma" for additional money.

 

Make peace with your karma. If you want to clear it, pray and do good deeds. Give to charity or do work to help the poor. This does 100% more to clear karma than worry about it or pay someone to "remove" it.

[Stefany]

But this woman said each of my love relationships will fail because of that and without reason. Is this possible? 

[gregory]

Anything is possible. Including your reader making it all up - which I think is far more likely than that your karma will have this effect. If I carried my parents' karma in that way I wouldn't have managed to stay married for over 50 years, 

 

Make peace with yourself and live as the best person you can be. And avoid that reader like the plague. And by the way - she can't have it both ways - "because of that" and "with no reason" - it has to be one or the other, even if it were true.

[DanielJUK]

My view is that a reader should not be saying this sort of thing to clients. You have paid for a reading that should be helpful and empowering. Instead you are told something which makes you feel upset and cursed for life. It's unethical and I would not use this reader again.

 

I don't believe that someone has that sort of baggage or curse for life. But I know in some cultures there is a karmic belief about this is the situation of this life, to learn from it for the next life. I would put it down as a bad reader and move on with your life.

[gregory]

Dan said it better - but yes indeed. Readers should empower, not terrify.

[Stefany]

In your experience, can tarot cards really show ancestral karma? I dig up into my family history and there are no indications for that but the woman said it with such certainty, so I don't know what to do. I am just scared for my future.

[Misterei]

1 hour ago, Stefany said:

In your experience, can tarot cards really show ancestral karma? I dig up into my family history and there are no indications for that but the woman said it with such certainty, so I don't know what to do. I am just scared for my future.

People say all sorts of things. Some true. Some false.

If you are worried about your mother's karma, make a donation to a worthy charity in her name. Or do volunteer work for a worthy charity and pray for the karmic benefit to go to your mother.

Worry makes things worse, not better. You have the power to clear karma with good deeds and prayer.

[KiMo]

I'm sorry that you're feeling this way @Stefany. I won't dwell on the sentiment as others have already said it but I think this tarot reader does not have your best interest at heart. Any practitioner that disempowers their clients is doing so because they have other motives, in my opinion.

 

The first thing that I felt, regarding your initial post, is that perhaps it would be helpful for you to take a step back and understand that when we anticipate difficulties that aren't there, it can sometimes become a self fulfilling prophecy. For example, a person is told that all their relationships will fail. They then become anxious about their current relationship, and that anxiety goes on to drive mistrust, paranoia and division. So there you have it, an ultimately unhealthy and possibly broken relationship, not because of karma but because of something someone else told you.

 

Even though this tarot reader hasn't asked you for money now, that doesn't mean they might not later. Their projected certainty and the seeds of anxiety they've sown seek to keep you returning to them because you begin to have trust in what they tell you and you keep returning for further 'insight'.

 

In my personal opinion, we can certainly carry generational trauma. I do believe that we also bond with other souls over lifetimes, sometimes that can certainly be family. But do we carry the weight of karmic responsibility for another? I'm not sure about that. Others may disagree with me but my belief is that our karma is our own. And, the most important thing to remember is that we always, always can choose how we respond to a situation. Just as with a less than positive tarot reading, we can take note of how that trajectory came to be and we can make the necessary changes to our behaviour to alter it, if we're mindful.

 

Please rest easy in your happy relationship.

 

 

[Stefany]

I feel like a cursed person because of her words. And she did this reading for my whole life. It was general reading.

[gregory]

Please, PLEASE listen to what we are all saying. It was a bad reading on all counts; no decent reader would give you a message like that. Readings empower, they don't destroy. You get out there, enjoy your relationship and live your best life. If you let her nonsense affect you, as KiMo says, it could spoil things for you, even though I am sure it isn't true.

[Misterei]

1 hour ago, Stefany said:

I feel like a cursed person because of her words. And she did this reading for my whole life. It was general reading.

Have you done anything to reverse this?

Taken advice from the people who answered your post?

Donate or volunteer for a worthy charity? Do a good deed in your mom's name?

If your won't bother to help yourself, no one can help you.

[Deian]

On 5/3/2024 at 6:05 PM, Stefany said:

In your experience, can tarot cards really show ancestral karma? I dig up into my family history and there are no indications for that but the woman said it with such certainty, so I don't know what to do. I am just scared for my future.

 

Doesn't sound like she had any idea what Karma(and Dharma) mean.
If you want to be a step ahead, can just go in youtube, find 3-4 Gurus that can actually read sanskrit(or at least resonate with you) and watch their videos on Karma. If after that you are still worried, then choice wasn't very good, find 3-4 more and repeat until you feel you aren't worried anymore and get it. As its not that complex and definitly not scary.
She probably have never done that or wouldn't provide readings like that. Its not a concept that has any place in there, in my humble view.

 

That being said I fully agree with the other members, if you feel bad about it, can just do something nice for your mother or for random person/animal and may feel better.

As at the end of the day she is suppose to provide clarity. If she is scaring you instead, then not only she doesn't understand karma, but she doesn't understand her own job as well. Why would you believe anything coming from there?

 

[sweeneyish]

Hopefully all this encouragement from the community has helped you. You probably don’t need additional answers about how wrong all of that reading was, but I did want to give you a Tibetan Buddhist (well, at least Tibetan Buddhist - could be the same across all the sects of Buddhism, but I practice Tibetan Buddhism and work for a Tibetan Buddhist organization for my full time job, so I can only speak from my knowledge of it) view of this.

 

According to Tibetan Buddhism, you cannot actually carry another person’s karma. It’s not possible for you to take on someone else’s karma, or to give your karma to someone else. of course, in the Tibetan Buddhist belief system, all beings have carried both negative and positive karma since beginningless time. In this view, we’ve all done the most incredibly beautiful and most vile things imaginable in the many lives we’ve had.  But we cannot actually receive another person’s karma. If that was so, the Buddha would just pick us up and toss us into a pure land, karma free. So I would say from the get go this reader’s view of karma is just totally wrong. 
 

And the good news of this whole view is that rebirth as a human is considered the most auspicious rebirth imaginable, which would mean you have generated incredibly positive karma in your past lives to come to where you are now. 
 

Anyways, I’m sure other faiths have other views of karma, but I hope this one gives you some extra reassurance. 
 

 

[gregory]

While reading a novel today I learned that the Cherokee people say that there are two wolves fighting in each of us - the good wolf and the bad wolf. The one that wins is the one you feed. Feed your good wolf.