posted May 25, 2005 11:15 AM              

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Can you choose to work out karmic ties with another? If you don't will the situation keep comin back until you learn the lesson?

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posted May 25, 2005 12:59 PM            

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I think you only know for sure.

It may mean different things to my spiritual development than yours....
That being said.. some things must be learned.. and the best way to learn isn't necessarily the 'best' way.

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posted May 25, 2005 04:33 PM              

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I think alot of it has to do with knowing right from wrong. Do unto others kindness, know when to walk away from people who want to fight. And so forth. karma doesn't need to be dealt with...that old eye for an eye tooth for a tooth could go on for ever! If for instance a person killed you in a past life and yes karmically they may have started it...but if you continue the payback chain, then where does it stop? And what if you started it way back when? Live as a kind person, try not to inact karma even upon those that deserve it. God will take care of it. Live well, live kind, negate karma next time.

PS. could you explain a wee bit more exactly what you were wanting to know? There are different/many karmic debts/situations. Learning may or may not be linked to vengence, but to altruistic acts neglected before. And other situations too. Please clarify...if you wish.

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posted May 25, 2005 05:21 PM              

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I was wondering about that, too and I was gonna post a topic about it!!
I met this guy about 8-9 months ago and we totally hit it off. As soon as I knew things were getting serious, I analyzed both our charts and it turns out we both have some karmic debt to pay to each other. We went out for about 4-5 months but it just sort of faded out, although we parted amicably. There's absolutely no hard feelings. It was his birthday about a week and a half ago and I even contacted him, greeting him Happy Birthday which he replied to with great appreciation for remembering it.
I never really loved him, we were like very good friends altho we were very intimate towards one another. But I keep thinking back on my karmic debt to him and his debt to me and what could it be?? I still think about him sometimes, not in a longing way but in a "wasn't that a good time?" way. I don't know if we have worked out our debt to each other or we still have another round to go...?? How do you know?

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posted May 25, 2005 06:07 PM            

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It's entirely up to the individual to choose to work out the karma or not. In a lot of ways, working it out is better for the soul's development. Or, if you choose not to, those debts will linger, so, you will have to deal with it at some point in the future.

One way of reducing the karmic debt is to consciously work on reducing the strength of emotion you pour into your interactions with people and thoughts about the same. Take the example of meeting an enemy from the past - if you decide to forgive & forget, you can move on; it takes two to tango, after all. I think, though, in cases where you're the one who has hurt them in the past, there isn't really a way of ridding oneself of such karma; you just have to pay it off, whichever way it comes back to you.

Tough stuff, eh, karma? Hope that helped a bit.
Sunshine
ps. There is an excellent book on karma, called Many Mansions: The Edgar Cayce Story on Reincarnation by Gina Cerminara; it goes into all sorts of karma-related topics and really makes it more clear.

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posted May 25, 2005 06:13 PM            

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That said, i too wonder, like seveneieghtorange, how you can tell if you're through with someone karmically. Perhaps when you feel like there's unfinished business... or when they keep popping up in your life...

I think that our soul knows - it draws to itself experiences that it has chosen for its development. For instance, in that Cayce book I just talked about, he says that the soul chooses its parents and marriage partner/s this way - in both cases, it picks the right environment to move it along at its particular stage of development.

Neat, isn't it?
Sunshine

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posted May 26, 2005 09:10 AM              

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It's like 78Orange and Sunshine9's situation. The person I'm seeing we hit it off really well too and have a strong connection with each other. After looking at our charts we had karmic debts to pay to each other. But from the other responses I think I have an idea about the whole karma deal. Thanks to all.

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