When the personality comes fully to serve the energy of its soul, that is authentic empowerment. We need to have an understanding of Karma and its effects on our life now, as well as on our spirit. We build and balance Karma from life to life to life. We are given physical bodies and life circumstances that will helps us learn the lessons that our souls need to learn in order for advancement. Karma isn't so much a system of judgment as it is a system of balance and harmony.
Reverence is contact with the essence of each thing and person and plant and bird and animal.
It is contact with the interior of its beingness. So, then, reverence is love and honor, is acceptance and holding life sacred. If you have reverence, you could not possibly harm another life, you could not be cruel or hurtful, you would never disempower another life. The answer is yes. Reverence for all life includes our earth and universe and all its creatures.