Uncovering Your Past Life Blind Spots Using the Major Arcana

The Minor Arcana reads daily life — the meetings, the money, the moods. The Major Arcana reads soul-level themes: initiations, archetypes, karmic patterns. Past-life work belongs squarely in the majors.

For this spread, separate the 22 Major Arcana cards from the rest of the deck. Shuffle only the majors. This concentrates the reading into the layer where karmic patterns actually live.

Lay five cards in a cross shape — one centre, then top, right, bottom, left.

Card 1 (centre) — The core soul theme you are carrying across lifetimes. The recurring lesson your soul keeps choosing.

Card 2 (top) — The gift or mastery you brought forward from previous lifetimes. What you already know at a soul level, even if you haven't accessed it consciously in this one.

Card 3 (right) — The wound or fear you brought forward. The blind spot itself — often disguised as a personality trait or 'just how I am'.

Card 4 (bottom) — The pattern this blind spot creates in this lifetime. How it shows up in your relationships, career, money story, or spiritual practice.

Card 5 (left) — The medicine. The specific karmic work that dissolves the pattern in this lifetime.

The High Priestess as core theme: a soul that has held sacred knowledge across lifetimes, often as a healer, oracle or keeper of hidden wisdom. Blind spot often: self-suppression, hiding gifts.

The Emperor as wound: a lifetime (or lifetimes) of harsh authority — either receiving it or wielding it. Blind spot often: control, difficulty with softness, over-responsibility.

The Hierophant as pattern: karmic entanglement with institution, tradition or dogma. Blind spot often: needing external permission to claim your own knowing.

The Lovers as blind spot: a lifetime where a partnership choice defined the soul's arc. Often repeats as difficulty making commitment decisions in this life.

The Hermit as gift: mastery of solitude and inner sight brought forward. Often the person others come to for wisdom without knowing why.

The Wheel of Fortune as pattern: a soul that has cycled through many fortunes — riches, losses, exiles, returns. Often manifests as a lingering distrust of stability.

The Tower as wound: a lifetime that ended in sudden collapse — an unexpected death, a loss of home, a betrayal. Often reappears as vigilance and difficulty trusting good times.

The Star as medicine: healing itself is the karmic work. The soul is here to close a wound cycle and hold hope for others still in it.

The Moon as blind spot: illusion, secrets, unconscious patterns carried across many lifetimes. The most literal 'blind spot' card in the deck.

Judgement as medicine: a karmic call to complete something the soul has left unfinished across lifetimes.

The World as core theme: a soul in its final integration cycle — many lifetimes have been walked, this one is a closing chapter.

Rule 1: read the pattern, not the past-life story. It is tempting to spin narratives — 'I was a temple priestess in ancient Egypt' — and while some readers work that way, the actionable reading is in the pattern the blind spot creates in this life. That's where the medicine lands.

Rule 2: name the wound before naming the medicine. The Card 3 → Card 4 sequence is the whole point of the spread. If you rush to Card 5 without sitting with Cards 3 and 4, the medicine has nothing to dissolve.

Rule 3: don't do this spread more than twice a year on yourself. Karmic-layer readings need time to integrate. Pulling repeatedly muddies the reading and can trigger spiritual overwhelm.

Rule 4: cross-reference with your birth chart. The south node of the moon in astrology names the karmic point you're moving away from; the north node names what you're moving toward. Together with the tarot spread, the picture becomes precise.

Past-life readings are among the most easily abused areas of tarot. Not every intense feeling is karmic; sometimes it is just this life doing its work. And no ethical reader will tell you 'you were a specific historical figure' with certainty — that is entertainment, not karmic reading.

A grounded past-life reading names patterns you can act on today. If a session leaves you with a story but no shift, it hasn't done its job.

The Soul Blueprint session includes a karmic layer — this 5-card major arcana spread cross-referenced with the lunar nodes in your birth chart and the karmic-number analysis in your numerology profile. The three tools together name the blind spot with unusual specificity, and the medicine becomes actionable rather than abstract.

Sessions run 75 minutes, in person at her South Delhi studio or over Zoom worldwide.