How to Clear Karmic Complexes
Free yourself from repetitive destructive cycles and manifest the life you deserve
This article is based on my life experience and study of karma, manifesting, healing, transformation, astrology, and a lifetime of working with my exact (0°0’) natal Pluto-Venus square. I will explain how karma, manifesting, and astrology intersect.
What is karma?
Karma is not punishment and has no relationship with morality. Morality is a human construct. Karma is simply cause and effect. It is completely impartial, like a law of physics. Karma accrues from our actions, and is retained in our energy body from lifetime to lifetime.
Much like our brain gets conditioned to expect future experiences to reflect past ones, if we have repeated intense traumatic experiences, that gets “grooved” into our energy body as a karmic complex. These karmic complexes shape future incarnations and appear as circumstances that seem beyond our control.
The events and circumstances that manifest from karmic complexes are not deserved.
They are simply the result of a tape playing out on repeat. It is fundamentally meaningless. I say this not to dismiss anyone’s experience, but to invite neutrality toward it. The more neutrality we can have toward negative life experiences, the faster the karma dissolves.
What has happened to you is not your fault, and you can change your life.
Karmic complexes are at play when your life experience includes:
an abusive childhood or abusive relationships
pain and suffering so extreme that you feel despair
repeated unexplainable bad luck or bad circumstances
a sense of constant struggle
repeatedly acquiring or building thing that just get destroyed or lost
patterns of circumstances that seem to repeat themselves—even if they started out different they end up the same
serious injustice that is never remedied or reconciled
beliefs that seem to be reinforced by your reality, even though reality seems to work differently for other folks
not being able to make some aspect of your life work no matter how hard you try
the feeling of, “Why is this happening to me!?”
First I will explain how manifesting works, why karmic complexes make manifesting fail to work as expected (but are actually a demonstration of it), and finally how to clear karmic complexes so you can manifest what you actually want.
How Reality Works
Reality is a precise mirror of the frequency of our intention (with important caveats). This is why we can manifest at all, but the caveats below explain why we often manifest what we don’t consciously want.
Our frequency is made up of our thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, and assumptions.
Why manifesting seems to fail
Our intention is made up of both conscious intention and unconscious intention. Unconscious intention arises from our mind and also from our energy body, and manifests on our behalf without our conscious input. It is operating before we incarnate (our incarnation is a manifestation), and it is shown in our natal chart. Our childhood often mirrors or mimics our previous incarnations and whatever karmic imprints they left in our energy body.
The mirror of reality is delayed, so it is not obvious to us that our intentions are creating our experience.
Because it is not obvious that our intentions are creating our experience, we conclude from our repeated experiences that “reality is a certain way”.
Once we conclude “reality is a certain way”, we are no longer able to imagine it being a different way, or produce cohesive intention that would manifest it to be a different way. We therefore get locked into a self-perpetuating loop of unconscious intention which manifests experiences that reinforce that intention.
How we get in our own way when manifesting
These concepts are from Vadim Zeland’s book Reality Transurfing. It is quite dense, so I recommend watching this video for an in-depth overview of it. I will summarize the relevant concepts here:
Importance refers to how the more we want a thing, the more we create “excess potential” which causes “balancing forces” to push it further away from us. Importance arises from really wanting something, being desperate for it, believing it is very hard or almost impossible to attain, having scarcity or fear around it, or having it attached to intense meaning like “having this will mean I’m a worthy person” or “this will save me”.
The solution to importance is to become indifferent or practice neutrality.
Pendulums are collective thought forms that hook us emotionally and distract us from what we truly want on a soul level. They also create importance. They run on fear and negative emotions. An example would be the idea that owning luxury items means you have more value, and you should pursue the acquisition of luxury items, whether you genuinely want them or not. Pendulums are things like the media, the government, celebrity culture—anything that ignites collective craving, aversion, or fear.
The solution to pendulums is to reconnect with your own soul and its authentic desires, and to a certain extent to ignore the world or at least not take your cues from it in terms of what to care about. Be your own person, live your own life.
Inner Intention is when we try to make things happen using willpower and strategy, rather than relying on the Universe to open doors for us and bring things to us based on our frequency. This creates importance and is usually born out of importance. We can obviously get things done this way, but it is limited in power compared to the power of the Universe working on our behalf. Also, if we are using inner intention out of scarcity or importance, we are emitting the opposite frequency to our efforts which will cause the Universe to cancel them out.
How To Clear Karmic Complexes
Now we have all the pieces in place for me to explain how to clear karmic complexes. This process is neither easy nor fast, but it can be done.
1. Become emotionally neutral
If we have strong unprocessed feelings, especially unprocessed grief (which includes anger and depression), we can’t be neutral. Processing this grief, which is obviously easier said than done, removes the importance which is counteracting our efforts.
2. Become fully aware of the pattern
Observation without judgment allows unconscious material to become conscious. With as much objectivity as possible, observe what your reality consists of, and what frequency you are emitting. Examine your beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions and what the mirror is showing you.
3. Own that all your experiences originated from you
Once you fully internalize that your reality is only reflecting back your own intention, it stops being about what anyone else did. They just showed up to fulfill your intention, as you showed up to fulfill theirs. Blame and resentment are indications you have not completed this step. If this feels impossible, go back to step 1.
4. Establish a new frequency
Cultivate the thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes that what you want is already naturally yours. If you notice yourself in “wishing and hoping” energy, you are attaching excess importance. Practice being genuinely chill about how you want your life to change. If this feels impossible, go back to step 1.
5. Stay neutral as the mirror shifts
Respond to every new experience with neutrality until the mirror changes and reinforces your new frequency. It won’t shift overnight. Neutrality keeps you from falling off your new frequency if some reflections of your old frequency still crop up. Continue to be neutral from now on.
Explore more
Here are more resources to understand and transmute your karma.
Understanding Karmic Complexes is an Evolutionary Astrology book that discusses how Pluto and the Nodal Axis reveal past life karma.
My site AstroLiberation has a free Karmic Axis report that is based on the above book. It will show you what karmic themes are indicated in your natal chart.
Anna Sayce is a psychic who teaches evolutionary manifesting, which is based around clearing karmic complexes. She has a series of articles on her blog about them as well as many articles about manifesting.
