Our ideas of fate come strangely enough from a kind of illusion of the way we think of information. Because we account only for the events that actually come to pass we look back upon the past and think: Look at all these things that came to pass to create what has come to be. For example, if you are an American it is easy to think wow, if my grandfather had not immigrated, why then he would have never met my grandmother, who would have never bore my father, who would never have met my mother, and I'd never have been born. How fortunate for me! Looking back on it there seems to have only been a single unlikely winding path. That is, of course because when you are looking backwards you are looking down the path as it was "chosen" or occurred. We never account for the possibility of how many possible people do not exist because things went the way they did. Looking forward, moreover, we do not have the same vantage to know all the possibilities, we see the future in terms of hopes and sometimes an intuition of vibrational possibilities, really quite misty even for the very gifted the future is never completely knowable or set.
Astrology is not to tell fate, but to aid in understanding our possibilities, and align with the desires of our heart and fully participate in the forge of fate as the great crafts person that we are. The modes teach us a secret in this.
Through Cardinal nature we learn to try the new, to experience life as an act of passion and as ever a wondrous surprise.
Through Fixed nature we learn to love what we have and are now, to engage in the moment and to play an active engaged role in the long haul.
Through mutable we learn to live the life considered, the flexible life, the life without attachment and a life that releases.
When we take these together, it means to fully participate in the moment, and it drives home the now.
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