On why ignoring dharma leads to “accidents”

 

 

In "How is Karma Born?" [1] the thesis was that karma isn't primarily about "sinful" or "wrong" actions, but rather emerges from a refusal to creatively engage with the opportunities of each new cycle. Karma is not punishment from past lives, but as unresolved potential or "frozen" creative energy from prior cycles that the soul must revisit until it is expressed/transformed. The birth chart represents a symbolic blueprint of this "unfinished business" — a map of potentialities that society, conditioning, and fear often block. Free will enters precisely here: we can choose to align creatively with the chart's dharma (purposeful function) or resist it, perpetuating cycles of reincarnation or limitation until the creative act is fulfilled. 

When we recognise that karma is born (or renewed) from unlived potential, not just misdeeds, it shifts astrology from fatalism to a call for conscious, creative responsibility. 

In "Why Accidents Happen" [2], I frame "accidents" (literal or symbolic crises) as karmic consequences of long-term misalignment — ignoring the daimon's guidance, the chart's higher potential, or the "God's idea" of one's path, often out of fear or attachment to habitual/lower patterns. When transits (especially from heavy planets like Saturn, Uranus, or Pluto) hit sensitive points, they force contact with what has been avoided — sometimes dramatically. This is very much in line with Rudhyar's process-oriented view: crises aren't random or punitive; they are catalysts for transformation when creative alignment has been resisted too long. He saw transits and progressions as opportunities (or urgencies) to actualize potential — and when ignored, the pressure builds until something "gives." .In modern humanistic astrology, "accidents" frequently appear as sudden Uranian shocks, Pluto destructions/reconstructions, or Saturnian hard lessons — all serving to realign us with dharma when we've drifted. 

In this free-will world, we can resist... but the stars keep offering the next cycle. When we ignore them long enough, the universe has ways of getting our attention — sometimes gently, sometimes not. Yet even those "accidents" are invitations to finally do the creative work. Karma is not deterministic doom, but a dynamic call to conscious participation in our own becoming. 

 

[1] https://javed22.blogspot.com/2015/05/how-is-karma-born.html 

[2] https://javed22.blogspot.com/2018/11/on-why-accidents-happen.html