Karmic tail 6-8-20: Disappointing the lineage
A wish to do your family proud that relaxes the day you understand you have a right to their affection without earning it.
- unconditional love
- chosen success
- eased bond
Karmic tail 6-8-20: Disappointing the lineage at a glance
An energy for work and a demanding standard that carry far come from this path. You know how to hold a course and finish what you start, and your results reassure the family. Directed toward an activity you truly love, this strength benefits the whole clan: people listen to you, and your success becomes that of several generations.
Chasing the perfect grade wears you out. By aiming for your parents’ approving look, you scatter yourself on every front and forget your own wishes. Silences, comparisons, or a reproach dropped at the table then sting harder than they should. Choosing a single field in which to shine already gives you a lot of air.
- The card 6
- VI · The Lovers
- The card 8
- VIII · Justice
- The card 20
- XX · Judgement
- Judgement as karmic lesson
- 20
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
What this karmic tail tells
In this life, the person tries from the earliest years to show the family what they are capable of, and even that they surpass everyone else.
In this life
Each success serves to meet what the family hopes for, and the results are often brilliant. Then comes a moment when this pursuit of perfection wears them down. They discover that they are entitled to affection without having to earn it, exactly like anyone else. The method asks for an intense, bright life devoted to what the person truly loves: it is the only road to great success in their work. Their strength and luck, which are considerable, can then benefit the whole extended family, and those close to them are grateful, because the efforts of many relatives have fed this journey. The learning also concerns the relationship with family: welcoming a love without conditions, detached from any grade or track record. In time, the person can hold a major place in the family story and link several generations; once their strength and maturity are fully reached, they are the one who steers many of the lineage’s decisions.
The lesson
For the method, the first task is to listen to oneself, then to renew peaceful ties with the family. The ancestors’ prestige and rank can be maintained, and even grow, through any activity at all in which the person succeeds: the field matters less than the success. The point is to honor one’s family and to live up to the name received. But without spreading oneself thin on every front: the pursuit of perfection harms work and private life alike. Shining in a single field is more than enough.
The story of the past, according to the method
According to the method, the soul was born long ago into a leading family, heir to a name that counted for something. Generation after generation, its ancestors had pursued the same goal with constancy and had risen very high. Everyone hoped the soul would take up this shared work and carry it with honor. It said no. By slipping away, it is said to have severed the subtle, demanding energy bond that united the lineage, and the family would from then on have regarded it as an outcast, a source of shame.
The script: Rejection
A way of living geared toward the recognition of the family clan.
The person waits for the family to confirm their worth, but circumstances regularly turn out in such a way that they are kept at a distance, refused, or pushed aside by their own people.
The signals
- An arrival in the world that was not wanted
- Quarrels and tensions with relatives
- Parents who are distant or quick to judge
- A very strict upbringing, or a child left without structure
- Serious health problems
- Parents separating
- Family stories that repeat
- A family trade taken up despite other wishes
- A strong hold exerted by the parents
- Refusing to continue the lineage
- Difficulty understanding oneself
- Parents who need looking after
- Secrets kept in the family
The new strategy
The new strategy is to choose yourself before seeking approval.
You take the time to listen to what you truly want, then focus your strength on a single field instead of aiming for excellence everywhere. Ties with the family are mended step by step, on a more peaceful footing. The name received is honored through this chosen success, whatever its nature, and the demand for perfection gives way to steady, calm work. The lineage then gains in brilliance instead of weighing on you.
The steps
- Note each week what you want, independent of family expectations
- Take one step toward a relative with whom the relationship has suffered
- Choose a single field in which to concentrate your efforts this year
- Drop a project undertaken only to succeed at everything
- Accept a “good enough” result instead of a perfect one
In everyday life
Sunday, lunch at your parents’.
Someone asks how your project is going, and you already feel the sentence that justifies, that embellishes, that proves. Breathe. For once, answer simply: “It’s underway, and I like it.” Notice what happens in the room, then in you. The table does not explode, and a little lightness enters a conversation that is usually tense.
A symbolic reading of the Destiny Matrix: food for thought about yourself, never a verdict or an established fact.
Go further
The Lovers
The card of energy 6Justice
The card of energy 8Judgement
The card of energy 20Arcana 20 as a life lesson
The same energy, in another position of the matrix
How is it calculated?
Start with the date.
The day gives a, the month b, the year c; any total above 22 is reduced to the sum of its digits. Fictional example, March 14, 1987: a = 14, b = 3, c = 1 + 9 + 8 + 7 = 25, reduced to 7. The life lesson d = 14 + 3 + 7 = 24, reduced to 6. The center e = 14 + 3 + 7 + 6 = 30, reduced to 3. Then d1 = d + e = 9, and d2 = d + d1 = 15. The tail reads from top to bottom: 9-15-6. Its name: “World of passions and tales.”
Frequently asked questions: karmic tail 6-8-20: Disappointing the lineage
Do you have to cut ties with your family to be free?
No. It is more about changing the nature of the bond: stop looking for an exam in it, and come for the pleasure of being together. This sometimes means a frank conversation, sometimes some distance for a few months, long enough to find yourself again. The goal remains a peaceful contact, where you come without a report card.
And if I have already succeeded, is everything settled?
A fine success is not always enough to silence the sense of being judged. The real turning point is inside: feeling in your place even on a day without results. Notice what you feel when there is nothing to prove, for instance after an ordinary day. That sense of calm shows the work is moving forward.
Why is a single field enough?
Because scattered energy yields nothing striking, whereas gathered energy makes you impressive in one particular field. Choosing is also a way of respecting yourself. You can keep other interests, simply without turning them into extra tests of merit or proofs to offer your parents, for the sole pleasure of practicing them at your own pace.
Karmic tails: the 22 energies
- Karmic tail
Karmic tail 18-6-6: Love magic
Love does not need to be wrested or to please at all costs: it is built when you hold yourself worthy of being chosen. - Karmic tail
Karmic tail 15-20-5: Rebel
A fierce independence, born of a home with loosened ties, which becomes a strength once it also knows how to bring people together. - Karmic tail
Karmic tail 15-5-8: Betrayal, passions in the family
A cycle of temptations and broken commitments that can stop once you choose to keep your word, first to yourself. - Karmic tail
Karmic tail 9-15-6: World of passions and tales
A heart that chases the spark and discovers, by staying, that the rarest intensity is the one of a bond you deepen. - Karmic tail
Karmic tail 6-17-11: Buried talent
A very real talent, held in reserve by an inherited caution, which only asks for permission to show itself. - Karmic tail
Karmic tail 6-5-17: Pride
A need for quick recognition that eases when each step is earned at its own pace and you stop measuring yourself against others. - Karmic tail
Karmic tail 15-8-11: Aggressiveness
An immense inner strength that flourishes when it chooses flexibility and negotiation over a power struggle. - Karmic tail
Karmic tail 18-6-15: Misused power
A flair for what is hidden and a taste for acting on others, which gain power when you learn to stop meddling.
Illustrations: Nicolas Conver’s Tarot de Marseille, dated 1760, restored by Tarot World Project, CC BY-SA 4.0 license, via Wikimedia Commons — images resized and compressed by Versana.