I've been marveling lately at the perfect symmetry between our ongoing cycle of individual soul incarnations, taking place birth after birth, and how perfectly this space based cycling fits in each time with our time based integration with our family and relatives, once we are born. On the one hand we have our souls taking birth again and again, cyclically, and one the other hand, every time we are (re)born, it feels entirely appropriate. What I mean by that is from a genetics and historical perspective, everything falls into place; "you have your mother's chin", "she holds her teacup just like her great-grandmother did". There is a perfect symmetry between being reborn into a new body, and how familiar everything feels once we are in our new family, each and every time.
It just amazes me, especially considering how we can trace our lineage backwards several generations, and yet we had absolutely nothing to do with those prior generations; they never saw us coming. And yet, here we are, fitting in perfectly. And the next time we arrive on earth in yet another body, we will probably have no relationship with our current family at all. However the family we will find ourselves in, that next time, will feel as intimately linked, back through the generations, as this one does. It is simply miraculous how the energy of our souls can match up to a perfectly tuned karmic birth into the physical world, time after time, in a different family each time, or certainly in a different relationship with a family each time. :-)
