What About The Path You Didn’t Take?

10 Responses to “What About The Path You Didn’t Take?”

1. Neith says on 2/9/08 at 10:23 am:
   

   My Saturn/Neptune are sextile and hooked into the Moon, so I’m pretty much OK with where I am. Sometimes I think it would have smarter of me to make sure I had more saleable skills, but in general I believe the choices I made were the best under the circumstances. Now my Aries with his Saturn/Neptune conjunct & opposing his Moon, is always going on about something bad that happened 30 freaking years ago! sheesh

2. 4tuna says on 2/9/08 at 11:05 am:
   

   Agree that I would feel sameway… And, it is an interesting exercise when in fun, but it also could lead to the subject of regrets. In my friend’s ebook, The Mushroom Memos, he calls regrets, “Large legged water birds with a capital “R.” I do not entertain regrets, and feel it is impossible to make a major mistake in one’s life. After all, we come here to learn, so whatever paths we take are the right ones for our education.

3. kashmiri says on 2/9/08 at 12:49 pm:
   

   To answer your question specifically, I don’t like or feel comfortable thinking about things like ‘the path I didn’t take’ at all.
   I feel like the decisions I make in life, by and large, are good ones This is because I make them… which I guess seems arrogant but in fact is indicative of my self-trust.

   I really trust myself to make good decisions, and if not it is revealed to me very, very quickly where I am screwing up. I guess that’s a gift.

   Thinking about the path I didn’t take immediately has me thinking the worst: what if I had actually succeeded in killing myself? What if that car had in fact killed me? What if_____?

   I don’t like it at all

4. kashmiri says on 2/9/08 at 12:49 pm:
   

   Oh…Saturn trine Neptune (with Mars/Venus conjunction in the mix)

5. Grace says on 2/9/08 at 1:35 pm:
   

   I see it the same as Elsa but I don’t think it’s so much about astrological indicators but a deep awareness of the reality of our lives. Okay, Ma, what if I had never started drinking and stayed in school? Well, I’d have probably started throwin up instead to fit in. Either way -problems! Everybody has ‘em.

6. moonpluto says on 2/9/08 at 2:55 pm:
   

   I have a Saturn Neptune opposition…

   I can’t imagine what other choices there were? (Did that make sense?) Were there other choices? I don’t know. It always seems like I get up against a wall and then and only then I have to… figure out what next. Maybe Neptune dreams and then Saturn decides…

   The way things unfold, even if I don’t like what’s happening… it always feels “inevitable” to me. In a way, as if there is no free-will. I can only choose how I feel about this or that…. but events are going to happen according to “plan.”

   Most important is good strong company for the ride, whatever it is, wherever it goes–

7. saggal says on 2/9/08 at 9:43 pm:
   

   Saturn square Neptune, Neptune conj. sun among others. I do often think about what would have happened had I made decisions earlier than I did, or made them myself instead of leaving them in the hand of others, but the path not taken? There’s only two instances of that, and I think I made the right choices. Although there’s no real way to know.

8. wyrdling says on 2/10/08 at 12:18 pm:
   

   i made the decisions i did at the time they happened. often enough over time even the ones i may not make the same now brought me to where i am. you learn by doing. i think it’s useful to reflect on the past and consider how you might want to do things different in the future, but you only get to that perspective by the experience in the first place.

   so i’m not really comfortable with this kind of question on principle. if there are alternate reality mes who made different decisions they are still going to tend to make the same mistakes until they learn better. and often i do things for reasons not entirely apparent to me at the time… and i probably still have a lot of time ahead of me, so there’s a lot left to say about where i end up.

   i guess, i mean, the things i didn’t get to do, often enough, i didn’t get to because they _weren’t right_ and why should i judge that?

   it might be the saturn t square, but i’ve come under the impression that i do a lot better if i try to move with the flow of life, rather than trying to force it. or that could be the pisces mars?

9. Grace says on 2/10/08 at 2:35 pm:
   

   Wyrdling, I would think it was your Pisces Mars going with the flow. I don’t have a Saturn T-square myself but that sounds like more of a salmon swimming upstream type thing?

10. Stephanie says on 2/11/08 at 1:40 pm:
    

    Saturnine control freak that I am, you’d think I would obsess over such questions. Mostly I just let it roll off me. Doesn’t matter if I made mistakes, b/c there’s nothing to be done about it now. Maybe that’s my Mars-Neptune opposition talking.

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