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August

Spheres that use this interpretation:Task within the lineage

Interpretations are currently available in Russian only — a translation is in progress.

August is named after a ruler who gathered the laws into a single code — and the system holds justice to be the main content of this month.

The August task is to set justice right. The person comes into a lineage where somebody was judged wrongly: short-changed in a division, accused without guilt, struck out for something that never happened.

They recognise it from themselves — from a sharpened sense of what is unjust and from the fact that they cannot walk past somebody else's unfair decision even where it does not concern them.

The task calls for judging fairly, not for avenging one's own. The difference is a matter of principle: restoring justice ends the story, revenge continues it.

It is fulfilled when double standards stop operating in the lineage and everybody is judged the same way — starting with the person themselves.

Task within the lineage

Task within the lineage = month number (1–12)

The month is responsible for youth — for what has to be gone through in the first nine years — and for the present incarnation as a whole. Where the day speaks of the past, the month speaks of what is happening now.

It is also responsible for ties with people: how a person relates to others and how they build relationships. And for the lineage — on entering their month, a person takes up a particular place within the lineage.

The system distinguishes three kinds of karma. Personal karma was accrued by the person themselves in a past life. Family karma — by them too, but in relation to those close to them. Lineage karma is worked off only by descendants, and as a rule a generation on: a person deals with what a grandfather and a grandmother left behind, and their children — with what the parents left. There are exceptions.

The task within the lineage is precisely that lineage part. Its point is not guilt for one's ancestors, but that whoever moves into a house takes on the state it is in: the sorting out falls to the one who lives there.

One point stands apart: another person's karma cannot be affected. Even when someone is being pushed towards what is wrong, they answer for it themselves — and for that same reason they themselves can put a stop to it.