I was thinking today about fate versus free will. I believe that we all have some fate that we have to deal with. These are those things that are hard-coded into your life. Your age, your DNA, the times that we live in and perhaps some other cards that were dealt too you, before you even got here.
They appear to me as big, giant boulders that we have to either navigate around or smash into as we move down the river of our lives.
But I believe even more strongly in the power of our free will. I don’t see this as an “it was all meant to be” kind of place. This planet has polarity/duality. We have this and that. Up and down. The light and the dark.
Then we get physicality- a body so we can experience the results of our choices. Pizza or Chinese? Red wine or white? Yum. Or maybe a big belly ache depending on your choice.
My sources tell me that this weird little planet is the only one around that has this particular combination of polarity, free will, and physicality, exactly in the mix that we do. We are meant to experience the results of our choices. It’s how we learn compassion and responsibility. Those lessons come from really experiencing firsthand the universal law of Cause and Effect.
And mostly we only learn this the one the Hard Way. (If I act like an a-hole then no one will like me and I will go eat worms… huh.) Karma is a good teacher, she is Cause and Effect over the long haul, after all.
It’s more empowering to live from the power of our free will than abdicate our choice and leave it on fate’s doormat. Then we have the power to choose HOW we are going to deal with whatever fate sends us.
Free will is one of the most incredible powers that we have as humans. Choice keeps us from feeling victimized by the fickle nature of fate. Can we back it up even one step further and wonder if we have even chosen our fate from the level of our soul? Yes, we can. Feel into where you are feeling a little victimy today and see if you can choose yourself out of it. Or at least choose a softer approach to it all. Even if we are not choosing directly what is happening, we can still choose how we are going to respond.
And that is the path to freedom.
