"Jenny,
I don't know if Momma was right or if, if it's Lieutenant Dan. I
don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating
around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both.
Maybe both is happening at the same time." Forrest from the movie:
Forrest Gump
How
Fated Is The Future
For astrologers, "how fated is the future" seems
to be the one question underlying virtually every other question
that clients ask us on a daily basis.
Truth
is…
both when wearing my spiffy professional astrologer’s hat and
when living out my everyday personal life as an inhabitant of our planet…
"how fated is the future" is a question that I find myself
continually re-examining and re-evaluating, yet never quite coming up
with a "perfect" answer for.
I imagine
that I shouldn’t have told you that, since we astrologers are,
after all, supposed to be privy to all of the many vast secrets of
the
universe.
"How
fated is the future" is ultimately an unanswerable question…
whether the question is asked on a global scale, facing fears on a critical
new health issue such as MRSA infections – or whether we’re
knee deep in facing our own individual tragedies and/or misfortunes.
A while
back, I wrote an article, "Search For Meaning," referring
to what seems to be an all too clear stark reality of life – that,
for purposes of the unfolding of soul, much of our lives are meant to
be spent living in and dealing with emotional swamplands. (Granted,
the article did not meet with everyone’s approval.)
Life
On Our Planet
Just how fated is the future? Philosophers, whether ancient or modern,
have all faced the angst-ridden reality that, for most of us, our life
experiences are full of unexpected, unwanted, and uninvited twists and
turns. Life on our planet is a mishmash of the good, the bad, and the
ugly.
The only
real question boils down to: "does this mishmash have meaning and
purpose or is this mishmash random and arbitrary." "How
fated is the future" is
an important question that each individual on the planet must eventually
ask and come to grips with for him or herself.
In this
series of articles on "Fate and Astrology," you’re
unfortunately going to discover that I'm better at the asking of
hard questions than
at the giving of easy answers.
The spine-tingling
fear that I had in committing myself to this series of articles on "fate
and astrology"
was that I had absolutely no clue about where or what direction I
was headed.
I simply
woke up one morning and knew it was time for me to personally revisit
the question – and then thought that
it might be interesting to take you along to share in a small
part of my personal
journey.
"We
have a date with destiny... and it looks like she's ordered the
lobster!" William
H. Macy as The Shoveller - Mystery Men
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