I do agree, but Im not sure everything counts.. I do question when i get a series of unfortunate events, but i assume its just how life is. Bumps in the road!
But i treat fate with respect, if i ever make a decision that might bite me in the ass, i never do it with cruel intentions. I think its what counts. ive had friends who used to laugh at people who fell,and laugh at disabled people cause they were young and stupid… But they somehow got back for it and learnt to respect fate and treat people equally. But still, i think it shows character when you dare to make decisions instead of always being the naive one who gives everyone the benefit of the doubt.

-thanks for an awesome blog!

Welcome, Sara!

I seriously tempted fate once in my life, and fate socked me in the jaw. I’ve been afraid to look at my chart for that period, but your post sent me to it.

I’m Sag. And the crisis unfolded over a couple of years, but I looked at a couple of key dates. I noticed immediately that Neptune was transiting my 6th, and Jupiter my 12th. This last bit resonantes particularly with me. Pluto was on the cusp of 5th at the inaugural event, which also “clicks” with me. But I have limited interpretive skills here, and limited guts for revisiting that period.

I’ve not tempted fate like that again. Yet.

When i first read the article i thought that i didn’t tempt fate. After reflecting on it I realized that this may be exactly what i’m doing. all day, every day, for a long time now.
DENIAL huge!
I’m not sure I would even know where to begin stopping tempting fate…..it is so just a part of my life.

4 planets in sag (including neptune) and i’m a sag rising.

when the cop stopped me and warned me not to drive so fast in elk country at night with a kid in the car i found the next town and got a room…. i’d been tired…
figured it was a message…

but, when i was 18 i wrecked my car maybe the 30th time i raced over that mountain road that has nearly killed at least two other people in our family. it’s the famous “take this sh*t seriously road.” i wrecked it at a turn near the bottom of the hill, rather than going off the side, though. which i could have just as easily done.

drove once without my glasses (i’d lost them earlier that day) and got another car totalled when i was 24.
…these things kinda’ stick with me.

Oh, it’s complicated – as a double Sag it’s in my nature to tempt fate all the time, but with Saturn prominently placed in my first house I’m also pretty careful and conservative. I may take risks with myself but I don’t think I tempt fate by pushing other people’s buttons (at least I try hard not to unless there’s a clear survival reason to), and I don’t like taking big risks (no gambling for me ever, for example). Unlike my ex, also a Sag, who LIVES to tempt fate and push other people’s buttons . . . in public. He did it once too often a few years back and got the shit kicked out of him. I’d been waiting for that for years.

I’m not sure that taking risks is the same as tempting fate. Once when I was out of work I got a really bad back injury. People would advise me to claim sickness benefit – more money than unemployment benefit- but I felt that doing so would put me more in a ‘disabled’ mindset and maybe prolong my recovery so I didn’t. Is that ‘not tempting fate’ or just stubbornness?

Definitely worth it. Took 14 mths to be able to walk around properly and much longer for total recovery. At that time our relationship was in major crisis and being very independent it was really hard to rely on him for everything for a while. However his support and my determination got us to a much better place and a subsequent amazing course of events brought us much good fortune. We’re still together 15 years on and the back injury healed for good. I have watched others take almost too quickly to wheelchairs and total support – they are still there.