A viewer asks: “Yesterday, a good friend had to travel to London again, to sign some documents related to a financial situation he had decided to remove himself from. I would say that he is someone who has an empathic connection with animals in general, so much so, that on his journey home, he held the traffic up to ensure a hedgehog safely crossed the road. He even got out of his car to make sure the hedgehog was in a safe place. A little later in his journey, he had the ‘misfortune’ to hit a hare, which jumped into the road. Feeling really bad about this, he was recalling how he nearly met his own demise a few months previous as he approached that same stretch of road. Without warning, a large deer suddenly appeared from nowhere and he was unable to avoid hitting it. Such was the impact, that the deer’s death was probably, and hopefully, instantaneous. He has travelled that road for 25 years without incident and is wondering if last night and the night 3 months ago are somehow interrelated, and if so, how? Could this set of incidents also be connected with the purpose of his visit to London earlier in the day.”

This is this is a delicate business because you are asking us to divulge intimate karmic details about a third party, and we regard such matters as needing to respect privacy unless there is a compelling need for understanding by someone in a position to help them greatly, perhaps in a pivotal way. So we can tell you, there is always karmic energy involved in everything that happens. But keep in mind, it is not only the human side when animals are concerned, but the animals, as well, have karma. This is in alignment with what science often describes as "selection pressure" meaning to the layperson, "survival of the fittest." So animals that are smarter stay out of human way because they are better at sensing danger, or perhaps are able to move more quickly and have quicker reflexes to react to a dangerous circumstance, while crossing the road for example, and will do better because those attributes have "survival value" according to the theory of evolution. What no one realizes is, that the bigger driving force in things is karmic. The personal attributes on display always, whether animal or human, will be governed by karma and influenced greatly, and it will be impossible to see from the surface of things whether a circumstance is just the biology of the organisms playing out or a karmic influence tipping the balance one way or another, favorably or unfavorably. So this series of encounters is much more complex than you realize, and we are not in a position to share the full story, in any event, but hope you will feel gratified from being tantalized with deeper insight, using your example is a starting point to open up a new vantage point for better human understanding of the animal world.