Curiously, many of yesterday’s exploiters are today accused of being slave owners simply for exploiting their fellow man… or not. Most of the time, people only talk about the victim’s skin color, origin, culture or identity. It becomes news, a scandal worthy of the latest Netflix production, whenever it’s a white man enslaving a black man…

But this colonial revenge reflects a much deeper spiritual issue. The pursuit of profit—that Golden Calf of capitalism—led people to look for the ignorant, the illiterate, the stupid or the desperate… Sure, you can add or remove adjectives to define who gets shafted doing those heavy, dirty and difficult jobs, simply because there was nobody else willing to do them. It was their turn, because of their natal chart, destiny… Or whatever.

So the real question is this: why was someone hired who didn’t belong to Europe? That person wanted to “save money” by hiring a non-European instead of a white worker because “he” could supposedly endure the sun better or had better physical conditions for certain kinds of labor, such as working the cotton fields… Yet those tears shed yesterday are exactly the ones echoing today in all those graffiti that casually label any historical figure a slave owner, without context, whether he was a politician or a businessman. Same old chant. Same spiritual ignorance.

Because once you study the laws of reincarnation, tikún and Vertical Astrology, you begin to understand why today it is one person and not another who receives a particular burden. It is measure for measure, justice applied, consciously or not. Whoever killed yesterday is the slave today, and tomorrow the opposite may happen. And no, I didn’t invent Cain’s myth. It’s right there in the Torah.

Then comes the funny part. Tikún shows that a follower of the........

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