Free Will or Fate?

Being an astrologer for a number of years now,I have wrestled with this question of do we really have Free Will or is our fate all mapped out in our charts?

Although I have always been on the side of free will, when I was doing my diploma,in one module I was learning about Age/points. Age points basically are similar to the fingers of a clock that begin at birth which they proceed to go through each house in turn. Each house takes six years with the full circle being complete in 72 years, which it then begins a new circle. Its purpose is in showing our psychological growth as we go through life.

Amazed at the Synthesis

In doing this module I had to go back over my life and write about the experiences in each house that the age/point had travelled. I was amazed at how the experienced matched the signs,houses and planets it had touched. It seemed like I had been following a plan! I continued to ask myself if I was just following a process, was my life mapped out and where was my free will in all of this????? Could I have done things differently,or was I operating on auto pilot?

In Hindsight

From the wisdom of experience and the benefit of hind sight I now have a clearer view. I do believe in reinca
ation, life makes little sense without it. However, even if you do not,we do come in,with inherent family traits and genes, which we evolve further. Each life then brings in a new scene to be played out. Operating on auto pilot is in effect working from our subconscious programs, which were formed from our past life experiences, social and family conditioning. I could have not done anything differently because I was operating from these scripts. I was attracting situations and life experiences that mirrored these paradigms and yet each circumstance offered the opportunity for growth and self-awareness. This is one of the wonders of life, if we could but see it. I personally had to be knocked over the head, many,many times before a lesson was learned.This was because my paradigms where so bread in and it is only through the light of self-awareness that I started to see where these had come from,how I needed to let go of those that no longer served me and were holding me back. Freeing myself from these old scripts I now work consciously at building my own.

Where then is Free Will?

Although we always have it,we only begin to really use it when we begin to develop self-awareness.When we begin to develop our own minds, beliefs,opinions and theories,which have been build from our own experience and not that of our past or our inheritance.

The more conscious you become the more you can take back control of your own life, which leads to a greater sense of self mastery and creativity.
Free Will is an asset we all have but we only begin to use it effectively from the light of self-awareness.

Quote from Liz Gree;'A new look at an old Devil' Human beings do not earn free will except through self-discovery,and they do attempt self-discovery until things become so painful that they have no other choice.