Fate and Destiny: Do We Have Free Will?

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Hi, I'm Joni Petrie, and welcome to my YouTube channel. Well, today I want to talk about a very important subject to my heart and soul, and that is the subject of fate and destiny and free will. Many people are in question as to do we really have free will or do we get to choose? Why are we here if we don't have the ability to change things? So many Vedic astrologers believe that there is no such thing as free will, that everything that's in our chart is destined to happen to just the way the chart reveals. And I disagree with that wholeheartedly because I believe that our birth chart is simply the sum accumulation of everything that we have been in previous lifetimes and even in the beginning of this lifetime, because looking at your chart is going to tell you exactly what you were before. So here are the patterns that we have created from many a lifetime. All come together. This is who we are. But when we look at our birth chart, if we don't like what we're seeing, if we have a difficult chart for marriage, if we have a difficult chart for career, if we have a difficult chart with our brothers and sisters, this is what we've come to heal. Astrology is to look at what it is that we have, what we have acquired karmically and what we're here to change.

Because what is the purpose if we are here to come out and just act out a script such as a play. There has no meaning or purpose there but to understand that this is our script of who we have become from so many lifetimes. It gives us that information that through conscious awareness and change, that we can change ourselves to never have to go through these experiences again because they are so painful. We must learn from these experiences. So every time life gets difficult, it's trying to tell you something. This is what you've come here to learn through. And everything that's presented in our faces is because it's giving us that gift to learn what we're here to grow through, to change.

And to transform. Now, so many people ask me, is there any remedial measures to heal these karmas? And my answer is, there's a few things that can help. But more than anything, anything, we have to take a look at ourselves and change. And that takes a lot of hard work and effort. And here's a saying, I love that Dick Cavett said so clearly. And, you know, he was an old talk show host, but he says it takes a great person to. To hear what you do not want to hear. And that's where the change comes in. So wearing a gemstone? Yes. Gems have power. They have vibrational frequencies. They can help, but they're not going to do all the work that you need to do to change yourself. You've got to change yourself. You've got to become conscious and aware of what you have been doing, what you have been attracting to your life to change it. Everything that comes into your life for good or bad, you have attracted because you want to learn something from that, to transform and change yourself. Because once you have come to this point of major transformational change, you realize what you've been doing. Being a victim or being angry, what caused this. Because the minute you come back into this world, you are going to be reincarnated into the family that's going to give you the lessons that you need from previous lifetimes. Yes, I'm sorry this is the way it is. But let me tell you, you have the utmost control to change it. You have the power to change it by becoming aware of what it is you're seeing in your life that you don't like that's not working, and realize what you can do to change it. There is always a solution. You just have to find it within your heart and soul to realize what, what you have been doing that's attracting it because you've been doing it lifetime after lifetime after lifetime. And until you make that conscious awareness and change it, it's never going to change. You're going to have the same pattern. So why would we come back and just keep repeating the same karmic issues, the difficult relationships? Because we're not wanting to grow and look at it and change. We'd rather just go the flow which the planets in Vedic astrology are called the Grahas, which means to take hold of us, to grasp. And of course, with the way that we have built these karmic destinies and webs, we're going to attract the same situations. So there are so many, so many ways to change. And yes, some people want to do mantras. Mantras deal with vibration. Everything is energy. But you have to change your beliefs in your mind to change this vibrational field. Yes, mantras could possibly change that vibrational field, but you've got to do them so many, so many times to shift that energy. Yes, there may be a lot of tools out there, but let me just reassure you, you, you've got to do the work. You have to change your life through changing yourself, changing your thoughts, changing your beliefs, and that affects your emotional being and that is the root cause of so much disease. When we have anger, when we have fear, when we have hostility, all the things, resentments that build up in our body, that creates disease over lifetime and lifetime and lifetime. Maybe you reincarnated to the family where there's certain proclivities to certain diseases because it's part of your makeup. Let's wake up, let's discover who we are, that we have the power to change our lives. And you do, by becoming conscious and aware. Don't give in to the anger and resentment and the fear. Look beyond that. What can you do to eliminate that part of you that keeps causing the uncomfort and the problems? So most people don't want to change. They don't want to do the work. So then guess what? Things just keep happening the way they always have and they keep blaming the world instead of taking back their power to change themselves. Now let me remind you of what some of the great seers said. For one, Edgar Cayce.

And Paramahansa Yogananda said this as well as his guru, Swami Sahteswar. All of them said that astrology is true. The planets don't lie. This is who we are. But the thing that is stronger than the Grahas is the will of man. So it is the willpower, our will, our determination to change, to overcome the obstacles that are in our chart. That is our free will. That's what will open the door. We have free will to choose our awareness, our behavior, what we think, what we feel. Do not become a victim and blame the world or blame your family, blame your circumstances. Yes. If you don't change, you're going to come back with the same set of circumstances because you never healed it. We are here to heal our lives and that is the power that we have. With reference, free will and anything is possible. So many people have healed their lives. For example, Louise Hay, wonderful representation of the power of the mind in healing. She had cervical cancer at an early age, in her 20s. But she was raped earlier, prior to that, and developed this cancer of the reproductive system.

But she decided she would change the emotional cause and she did and cured herself without taking any medical treatment. Now, most people don't have this power, but I'm just telling you it is possible and it is probable once we wake up to exactly what we have been creating in our life. So for example, let's say you have Mars, Rahu, Saturn or all the malefics somehow aspecting your seventh house of marriage. You can't always say that your partner is doing all this to you, although it will appear that way. You have to say, what is it in me that's attracted this type of personality? So that I could learn more about me. Remember, the horoscope is telling you everything, everything about yourself. And I will add this. In the old, ancient Vedic text, it says, know thyself and you will know everything in the universe. What does that mean? When you understand all the emotions, all the feelings, everything that you have created and you're able to transcend that, you will understand everything about the universe. This is a fact. This is enlightenment. And looking at your chart. We all have the opportunity to wake up to enlightenment by looking at what our issues are through our chart and our life's experiences with that, we can change. That takes free will. It takes the will. Remember the great seers said, it is the will of man.

That is going to transform and change the fate, the karma, the destiny that is foretold in the chart. We can do it. Believe in yourself, believe in free will and work on changing consciousness and awareness of what is truth within your own life, not what's going on out there. Because everything out there is a reflection of you within here. And when this changes within us, that outside world will most definitely change. That's a promise. So with that, I'd like to close. If you would like more information on me, sign up for my free newsletter or get a consultation, go to my website, which is Galactic Center.org. or if you would like to study with me, join our online university, go to my university website, which is universityofvedicastrology.com thank you.