How is Karma born?

The birthchart may be looked upon as a symbolic picture of our frozen karma. Most of us are so conditioned by society and culture that our lives are only a superficially modified repetition of the sociocultural past. We must choose between allegiance to repeating that past – no matter how glorious it may have been – or choosing to transform that past in a creative way.

Karma simply refers to the fact that any new cycle of existence is always in some manner related to some unfinished business of  the old cycle. Dharma is nothing but the opportunity in the new cycle to work creatively with the old karma. If we refuse to create when the time comes we must take responsibility for the death and decay that must follow. Thus is new “karma” born.  Karma is not produced so much by a wrong kind of action ("sin") as by the type of action which derives from a refusal to perform creative acts , when the need for them has come. Karma is caused by a denial – conscious or unconscious – of the creative potentiality of the moment by those who live that moment. As a moment of time is left un-expressed by the living spirit in man, this spirit must become a slave of more time. Each one of us must reincarnate as long as we fail to incorporate in creative acts, the creative power of every moment we are incarnate. [1]

[1] An Astrological Triptych; Dane Rudhyar