According to the 10th card of the major arcana - the wheel of fortune - everything is cyclical...If this is the explanation, complications and curiosities arise.
Are life events completely out of one’s control? Could I have led a different life? If I had made one different choice, would it have been all different – the idea of karma? Or would they have happened one way or the other - the idea of kismet?
What happens in my life is more or less the same. The themes are constant, the context changing.
Well, this then, seems like kismet. The same themes in this life and previous ones. The goals that I sought are the same – love, happiness, equity and freedom. These are actually not as grand as they sound. When it’s not political, but personal, these are simple pursuits. Everyone desires them.
My battles are also the same – struggles and rebellion towards achieving those goals.
I hurt for the same reasons – the same betrayal, the fundamentalism, the hegemony of organised religion, the patriarchy. Again, these are not grand, but are phenomena that subsume and devour my identity. Or push me to the margins, sometimes the victim, sometimes the witch, sometimes whore.
Whether it’s a young newly married woman in Celtic France, driven to suicide trying to convince the love of her life about her fidelity; or the young girl who grew up to become a cold cynic after being betrayed a hundred times over; or the pagan woman in sixteenth century Spain willing herself to die to escape from the atrocities of the Church; or the strong independent woman being thrown out of her house on grounds of religion and gender in a so-called modern cosmopolitan society; or the young intelligent attractive woman, still looking for love and acceptance. 
The themes are the same. Maybe this soul is bound to undergo these same experiences, same scripts, same emotions.
Regression explains this by stating “closure”. The soul needs closure of pent up emotions, unresolved feelings, unfulfilled desires, interrupted happiness, incomplete revenge or incomplete forgiveness.
This brings us back to karma. Not necessarily only of actions, but of memories and emotions. The wheel of fortune turns to remind us of what we had done and what we need to do. The “hell” is not some fabled burning pit, but the cyclical scripts of lives. The heaven is not through some improbable pearly gates, but in breaking this cycle, transcending these scripts and finding peace.
Till then it’s a continuing debate of whether karma or kismet…
2 comments:
Thanks. Ditto.
Interestingly written. However, isn't your observation on the pattern of human lives again a pattern?
Felt bad on the incident with the watchmen but there are worse I've heard. People being denied homes because they were from a particular religion....being thrown out from a job because someone with a similar religion had bombed a building in some obscure location in the US. how about that? I am constantly reminded of being an outcast because I've tasted monkey meat (yeah, I have tasted it)
The fact about being unvelied, unmarried and independent is nothing to be either sad or to be proud about...I'm sure this wasn't planned to be...just happened as time took its course. I am also doubly sure that no matter what, the experience itself has enriched you with so many different perspectives, so I think in retrospect, we all should be thankful to the society (not saying that you aren't) for letting us have this experience...
we live one life...you're getting the change to LIVE it...if you've not had life changing experiences...let's put it this way...you have not lived it...
Go on...there's more to come.
keep the lines flowing in between for our entertainment....
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