Sometimes It Just Doesn't Add Up!

[Darakash]

Ok y'all, I know there are varying beliefs about Karma (not the green-dot kind, the kind that may or may not exist in the Universe). I myself have always seen Karma as a basic form of action=reaction. Nothing punitive or supernatural about it...you push, something pushes back, etc.

Now, one thing I have never made up my mind about is whether the karmic balance is carried with us throughout our various incarnations (lives) or just happens in the current one. Again, I push, something pushes back...it might be in the next second or the next year, or whatever, but am more inclined to believe that it happens fairly rapidly. And I also see it as a fairly chaotic thing, in that, well, sometimes what pushes back is not necessarily what you expect.

So anyway, I for the last few weeks, I have been experiencing the strangest mix of events in my life...somethings so wonderful, I am stunned, only to turn around and have everrything turn to crap! Then, back and forth and back and forth.....and now just kind of pretty much crap....and it doesn't seem to add up. Now I know the simple answer is "Crap happens" but I am really starting to feel like that old cliche that I never really gave much credence to: "I must have done something truly awful in a previous life"

I guess I am really just looking for some insight and a different way (ways) of looking at this stuff, I just cannot seem to get "ahead" of the slams that I seem to keep receiving just when i feel like I have gotten my head above water.....

[LadyTrinity]

I know what you mean. But to every bad there is a good so there MUST be good or there would be no bad.. and I think that we see more bad than good because bad stuff we remember more and it stands out..I think we assume good karma is something huge like money or success but it can be anything from someone helping u by holding a door open or lending u some change because you forgot to have a quarter for the pay phone. That's probably why we feel we have it worse than good because the good we get isnt good enough? :lol:

[rottencandy7]

yea i hear ya on that one. Thats wat all of 2004 was. thank goddess this year so far has been wonderful. I had one of those karmic readings, ya kno, just for fun. Of course it said that when i was born there were no planet transits or something like that. i musta done something so horrible that the planets didn't want to offer their energies. I don't remember the exact wording. kinda s**ty if u ask me.

but yea, along the lines of wat the lovely Lady Trinity said, we expect too much or expecting something more spectacular than just the regular door opening or donating of a quarter for payphone, or someone telling you your money is about to fall out of your back pocket than just taking it from you. (i have that problem) I think of it that whenever i chase someone down because they dropped a dollar or w/e, i hope that someone would do the same for me. so far, yea..

[Darakash]

I know what you mean. But to every bad there is a good so there MUST be good or there would be no bad.. and I think that we see more bad than good because bad stuff we remember more and it stands out..I think we assume good karma is something huge like money or success but it can be anything from someone helping u by holding a door open or lending u some change because you forgot to have a quarter for the pay phone. That's probably why we feel we have it worse than good because the good we get isnt good enough? :lol:
You know, that does make sense, of course....but sometimes it does seem like the bad stuff so f*cks everything up that someone holding a door for ya pales by comparison in a big way! I agree with you that maybe we look for "better" karma than we get, but for the most part, I would just settle for going a week without something really really sh*tty happening! LOL

[LadyTrinity]

:lol:

[Darakash]

yea i hear ya on that one. Thats wat all of 2004 was. thank goddess this year so far has been wonderful. I had one of those karmic readings, ya kno, just for fun. Of course it said that when i was born there were no planet transits or something like that. i musta done something so horrible that the planets didn't want to offer their energies. I don't remember the exact wording. kinda s**ty if u ask me.
Well, me being an astrological idiot...I don't even know what that means! Sounds a little scary!


but yea, along the lines of wat the lovely Lady Trinity said, we expect too much or expecting something more spectacular than just the regular door opening or donating of a quarter for payphone, or someone telling you your money is about to fall out of your back pocket than just taking it from you. (i have that problem) I think of it that whenever i chase someone down because they dropped a dollar or w/e, i hope that someone would do the same for me. so far, yea..
I do see where you are both coming from here, of course, but if (and I don't really believe this, I am just frustrated) my "payment" to the universe for someone holding a door open for me is that I will have TWO vehicles break down at the same time, leaving me stranded, and the people who were supposed to "help" me fix one of them(after being super nice and helping me and my daughter get home) completely screw me over--after I paid them, meanwhile my student loan company "accidentally" double charges me my monthly payment and throws my bank account negative and causes 3 more checks to bounce, while I have my phone turned off because, i can't pay them due to the above problem....while I wait for reimbursement of the loan charge and fees...well....I will open the damned door myself! EEEEEEK....and the scary part, is that is not all the stuff that has been happening, just a small sample!
:kooky:

[Windsmith]

In one of the many "what happens after death?" threads around here, I posted this thought on reincarnation (http://www.mysticwicks.com/showthread.php?p=1625466#post1625466). The short version is that when we die, our essence goes to a sort of energetic ocean. Bits of energy collect like rainclouds and then fall into a new body. So think of what that ocean's like - if you think of karma as the way the waves of universal energy move through you - well, you have all the waves of human history! So every person benefits from the beneficial deeds of others, but every person gets slammed by the harmful deeds of others, too. And, also, if it's true, your current self has tiny bits of many different people (if not all of them): bits of Hitler; bits of Mother Theresa; bits of the neighbor lady who used to give you cookies; bits of her husband who liked to shoot neighborhood dogs. Everyone is always gaining and repaying karma for everyone else.

[Darakash]

In one of the many "what happens after death?" threads around here, I posted this thought on reincarnation (http://www.mysticwicks.com/showthread.php?p=1625466#post1625466).

That is a very interesting way of looking at it, and definitely goes a lot further in clarifying the whole question of what happens to one's consiousness from one incarnation to another....thanks for that! You gave me some food for thought!

[Spera]

My response :hugz:

And I wouldn't blame this on a past life that will just make you feel like you deserve all of this, which you don't. You are a great person!

Some days are dark, some days are dreamy
We'll ride through that dark, and give the days meaning.

[Darakash]

Thanks Spera! So sweet! :flowers:

[Spera]

Shhh... don't tell! *giggles* :crazyman:

[Spera]

You're post reminds me some of after I was interrogatted by the police who didn't belive I had been raped by my boyfreind. They decided that I was ashamed of my Wiccanism and sexual desire so i made up the story for my mother's sake. They were never convinced otherwise and I scratched my wrists to bleeding under the table wheich they didn't notice either, but this is unimportant.

When I left the building I saw a gorgeous bird looking at me, and I could tell that it was a message from God. And I just wanted to cry, did he really think that one bird was good enough, to make me feel better about this? Did he think the gorgeous day and the beautiful world would be good enough?

I know that my mind was in a bad place, and I recognize somewhat that without the bird and the beauty I would ahve been worse off. Using the one bird I was able to laugh about it a little before going completely numb and being put on anti-depressants. But things did get better. That pain helped me make descisions that have made my life wonderful. Goodness the pain sucked. I doubt anyone would argue with that. And I hate that good things wouldn't happen without pain soemtimes, but that's how it is.

:hugz::hugz::hugz::hugz::hugz: :hugz: :hugz: :hugz: :hugz: :hugz:

[Darakash]

How crap! Well, I am glad you have come out of it for the better and are able to see that one thing led to other things (in a good way)....I don't even know what else to say!

[Spera]

I'm sorry! I din't know how to explain the bird thing without explaining everything else, it's proabbly way much TMI.

[Darakash]

I'm sorry! I din't know how to explain the bird thing without explaining everything else, it's proabbly way much TMI.

No...I didn't mean it like that at all (the TMI thing) i was just taken aback that you went through such an experience is all. I am seriously glad you got to such a good place after such an awful experience!

[Spera]

See, you're a good person! :)