Tarot, in this sense, is not about fate. It reflects karma as lived memory and tendency, not destiny.
What unfolds in life is shaped by the patterns we carry — emotional habits, unresolved memories, inherited responses. These patterns create momentum. They shape how we perceive, how we react, how we choose.
Karma as Pattern
Karma, understood this way, is not punishment or reward. It is simply causality. The accumulated weight of past choices, experiences, and conditioning that continues to influence the present.
Tarot can reveal these patterns. Not because the cards themselves hold power, but because the symbolic language of tarot allows what is unconscious to become visible.
Awareness Creates Choice
When a pattern is seen clearly, it no longer operates in the same way. Awareness itself is transformative. It creates space between impulse and action, between habit and response.
This is where conscious action becomes possible. Not because we suddenly gain control over everything, but because we begin to see where we have been operating on autopilot — and where we might choose differently.
Tarot as a Mirror
Tarot does not determine the future. It reflects the present — including the momentum of the past. And in that reflection, it offers us a choice: to continue the pattern, or to bring awareness to it and allow something new to emerge.
This is the intersection of tarot, karma, and consciousness. Not prediction, but participation. Not fate, but presence.