What is the meaning of a life? This 52nd edition of The Golden Blade continues the themes of Destiny and Community by bringing narrative, biographical, literary, medical and karmic considerations to shed light on life. Can we discern significant correspondences or even patterns in what might otherwise appear as a random sequence of events? 8Do we discriminate between the essential and inessential details in our stories? Are we able to recognize the crucial encounters we have? Developing such life skills will help0 us to realize the intentions we have set ourselves for this incarnation. The contributors to this issue describe their processes and insights in their quests to make sense of life.