To close out her record-smashing Eras World Tour, Taylor Swift sang one final song: “Karma.” The world famous musician, known for leaving countless Easter eggs for her fans to decipher, does nothing by accident. So what message did she send by ending her tour with that song?
And what clues does the Karma music video offer to help us understand?
For the uninitiated, watch the full Karma video ft. Ice Spice here:
Taylor Swift’s cultural impact can only be denied by fools and those attempting to get a rise out of someone. Her hold over the global consciousness is obviously second to none. The woman runs her own economy, one larger than 50 countries.
I know there are many of you out there who don’t want to give Taylor Swift full credit for her work. I think about the ex-lover who suggested that Taylor’s music is more age-appropriate for my friend’s dog than for me.
Textbook misogyny disguised as artistic discretion. For reference, I am only two years older than thirty-five year old Ms. Swift while my friend’s dog, in human years, is nary twenty-one.
No woman should ever be underestimated, in my opinion, and certainly not one who is now a billionaire.
How Swift ascended to such dominancy is a subject I assume many have tried to unpack, coming to the obvious conclusion that her music makes people feel seen—which is true; it does—but something much greater is at play once you begin to dissect the narrative she has produced for us.
When you watch the Karma video, something else becomes clear…
Taylor Swift knows about the occult. She knows about witchcraft and magic (or “magick”) and astrology and so many other hidden things, and she uses this occult knowledge to her benefit.
Anyone can become a millionaire. To become a billionaire, you need an astrologer.
-JP Morgan Chase
Before we dig into Taylor Swift’s knowledge of astrology, let’s set the table.
Astrology today is more popular than it has ever been in modern times, but many continue to perceive the ancient art of studying the sky in relation to archetypes and mythology as something fake, fluffy, or otherwise unsubstantiated in fact.
While I have watched many friends change their opinion of astrology over the years, others hold their worldview steadfast. Men in particular, I have noticed, seem unwilling to entertain the notion that any celestial bodies (other than the Moon, whose effects cannot be denied—hello, tides! hello, life on Earth!) have a pull on us.
Due to astrology’s cultural relevancy with women, however, these men have stopped being honest about their lack of belief in astrology. Instead they lie and feign interest, because they know that engaging with astrology will help them get laid.
You know who didn’t feign interest in astrology to get laid, but who was actually invested in astrology? John Pierpoint Morgan, founder of Chase Bank, whose legacy is doing more to destroy the planet than any other bank in the world today.
Although Morgan never said “To become a billionaire, you need an astrologer” on record, he did employ a personal astrologer, Evangeline Adams, who spoke about their working relationship in her biography:
The first time he came to my studio, his attitude was frankly one of curiosity tinged with suspicion … But that attitude melted away at the first meeting. And, in his last years, he asked me from Egypt to join him and his party in the Orient, where he had gone on his famous yacht, the Corsair. His idea was to spend several months in a scientific investigation of the occult in those parts of the world where its practice reaches back into prehistoric time.
Evangeline Adams, The Bowl of Heaven
Yes, that’s right. John P Morgan, founder of JP Morgan Chase, (who BY THE WAY ALSO helped fund the Titanic and who at the last minute DID NOT GET ON), used astrology to his benefit.
You had better believe that the man whose legacy today now holds 3.9 trillion in assets consulted the cosmos for guidance because, baby, it’s true. They all do it. Astrology is real and powerful people use it to get what they want.
Tell that to your fuckboi the next time he stifles a laugh when you ask him what house his Venus is in.
Not only is astrology real (mind you, I’m using the term “real” here loosely, because in the greater context of the Pluriverse, it’s not really real. However in the context of our reality AKA the spacetime matrix, astrology is very real)…. Yes, astrology is not only real, it is baked in everywhere—
We live in an astrology-ruled society. The seven days of the week are named after the seven ancient planets. Twelve months demarcate one spin around the sun. Christmas—the biggest holiday of the year—happens on Sol Invictus, the third day after the solstice when the Sun begins to move again after an apparent stand still in the sky.
All of this is by design. Roman emperors built this current paradigm of our time matrix, and we adhere to it—often without question. We go about our days, absolutely taking for granted how these delineations shape and guide our collective behavior.
Astrology is a thing. An important thing. Now back to Taylor Swift…
“Man becomes the master of the seven spheres only when he transmutes the impulses received from them.”
Manly P Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages
The seven ancient planets are Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon—or Saturday, Thursday, Tuesday, Sunday, Friday, Wednesday, and Monday.
To alchemists, the seven ancient plants represented the seven stages of the journey to enlightenment—called by them the hermetic marriage. Basically: self-actualization. That is what is depicted here in the painting of Mithra in the Form of Leontocephalic Kronos: the Übermench, the fulfillment of human potential, animal nature overcome.
Notice the Moon and Saturn above this lion-headed man wrapped in a snake. The appearance and alignment of the Moon and Saturn—the beginning and the end of the seven ancient planets—underlines the representation of self-actualization depicted here.
So when Taylor and Ice Spice lasso and pull the Moon and Saturn together, it is a metaphor for completion, for self-actualization, and for enlightenment. It offers the statement that Taylor has transcended the pull of the seven planets and reached alchemical gold.
Which Taylor literally spells out for us in the sequence following the lassoing when she puts on a gold outfit and places herself inside a light bulb—or, rather, five light bulbs (which—five—we are not going to unpack here, but iykyk).
Just when you think Taylor couldn’t get any more brilliant, there is more. She is a performance artist, working with reality to the highest degree.
On December 8th, 2024, the night Taylor ended her Eras Tour with the one final rendition of “Karma,” something specific was happening in the sky: the Moon and Saturn were conjunct (conjunct means very close together—at the same degree or within 2-3 degrees of each other—from our point of view).
The Moon and Saturn, conjunct, on the very last night of the Eras tour, the tour she ended with the song “Karma” wherein she pulled the Moon and Saturn together in the sky !?!
Incredible. Surreal. Beyond.
Maybe it happened by synchronicity—these things do when you’re operating in flow—or maybe she planned it all out with her personal astrologer (let’s be honest, she must be working with a professional consultant). Maybe all that matters is that we can see it now and therefore know it and acknowledge it and discuss it.
Because Taylor Swift’s work is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to occult symbology. Just like the days of the weeks and the months of the year, occult symbology is everywhere, hidden in plain sight.
The word “occult” itself comes from the Latin “occultus,” meaning knowledge of the hidden. But with icons like Taylor Swift spelling out these revelations for us, it seems clear that the “hidden” won’t be hidden much longer.
Truth has been veiled for a long time—and there is a deeper truth than astrology, or course, but I think this layer is one we need to peel back before we go deeper. It’s unlikely that we are going to transcend the spacetime matrix anytime soon.
Whatever your perspective is on the working with the cosmos (JP Morgan = bad? Taylor Swift = good?), what’s certain is that it is possible to collaborate with the stars.
Fuckbois be damned. Astrology is real and we are all already working with it, whether we realize it or not.
References
Stephen Reedy. Stephen! Thank you for making the connection between “Karma” and Knapp’s Mithra. Stephen is a teacher at the Philosophical Research Society. I can’t recommend his courses highly enough! You will learn SO much by diving into the Secret Teachings of All Ages and more.
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