Catalyst

[MangusKhan]

Well it seems straightforward enough that you had been seeing life in a combative light, basically through the perspective of a negatively transformed mind, the "left hand path", seeing through the left eye. This attracted conflicts to your life, or those conflicts were pre-planned, and this would constitute the phase of your life in which you got in touch with that violent and controlling part of yourself. I don't mean to insinuate that you are evil or anything, "the battle" is a pretty big thing in this space/time. Someone has to fight, even in the name of good. So then comes your final battle, and the associated eye injury of the left eye. This basically symbolises the closing of the combative phase of your life, so now you can only see through the right eye, now you have to walk the right-hand path. Surely a challenge after so many instances of uncontested dominance.

This sort of catalyst is the other side of the coin for right-eye injuries, in which an otherwise loving entity begins a journey of power and control, now being able to only see through the left eye.

Just my take. I feel like you already understood the significance of the catalyst and came to your own conclusions before I wrote this, and I'm sure not all eye injuries carry such heavy meaning. Surely there is room for completely random trauma.

That is a very intriguing interpretation of the catalyst.  There is alot of symbolism in your interpretation.  Do all catalysts have such deep symbolism, or is it possible we are drawing meaning where there is none?

I also got a ball of cancer in my left knee area taken out during the same time or shortly after.  I had it for some time - i felt like it was there for 2-3 years. I could feel it, it hurt when i pressed on it but doctors just said "Oh just take tylenol".  FInally i got it looked at and they found a little ball between the tissue.  Obviously, it came to be but did not progress for a long period of time.

Any takes on that?

All I know about cancer is what I read in LOO, sorry. As for finding meaning where there is none, it's possible, but the eyes are such important parts of the body and the life experience. To change the vision is to change the perception of life itself. I would expand on the eye injuries, saying that the eyes, on a purely physiological level, are each connected to a hemisphere of the brain, and to alter the eyes will alter the brain. Usually this would have to happen earlier in the life experience though, as a child, in order to have a deep and lasting effect. But there would still an effect regardless. So I see the eyes, and catalyst of eye trauma, as being related to the balancing/unbalancing of perception.