On why “accidents” happen

Moirai – The Fates  of Greek mythology

Heavenly Evil, Holy one

You whose work is never done,

Any visage, any name

Cannot cloak your single aim.

Death as anybody knows,

Feeds the roots of any rose.

Crushing agonies alone

Melt into the diamond stone

Till some earthquakes lets us see

Long- imprisoned jewels free.

-          Louis Ginsberg

Each person enters the world with a “calling”. The idea comes from Plato’s well known work , the Republic. The soul of each of us is given a unique daimon before we are born and it has selected an image or pattern that we must live on earth.

The birth-chart of a person represents "God's idea" of that person and of the function he should perform within the society in which he is born (his “dharma”). A birth-chart is a formula of potentialities. The one task of the person having this birth-chart is to actualize as fully as possible this set of potentialities within his environment .  He can only do this by freeing himself from traditional behavior or patterns which he may have accepted.

 Accidents happen when we refuse to live out the potentialities in our charts.  How is that? Well let us begin by thinking of events in our lives that require decisions to be taken about which road to follow.  We have the freedom to fall back on our habitual way of doing things . This may involve rejecting options that we think are bad or evil. When we take this lower road …the easy way out instead of rising upto  the challenge presented by the higher self we are creating karma by  refusing to perform creative acts when faced by our fears of  of evil without understanding that something good may  result if we engage with the "monsters"in our lives.

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

Our daimon would have wanted us to take the higher and perhaps  more difficult road but this is a free will world and we can always refuse. As the refusals to respond to the challenges presented by our horoscope keep piling up we are setting ourselves up for “accidents”.  A difficult transit of say Saturn, Uranus or Pluto to a sensitive point in our chart can then cause an “accident”.  We often find forced contact with life’s darker side: disease makes itself felt, an intimate death or separation may take place among many other possibilities.

The result of the crisis can be tragic indeed. It can also mean a catharsis and a return to our “dharma”. Looked at this way , is the crisis bad?  After all it presents us with an opportunity  to transform ourselves.