A Spiritual Perspective of Wuthering Heights

I watched the remake movie of Wuthering Heights recently and the movie was on my mind today. Here is the trailer: https://youtu.be/3fLCdIYShEQ?si=x26iLyeN9uGpQNLt. There is definitely the human perspective and spiritual perspective so let me share both.

The human perspective of the movie is that it's set in the early 1800s, the main character is a little girl named Cathy that has an alcoholic father named Mr. Earnshaw. They live in a worn down estate called Wuthering Heights. Mr. Earnshaw brings home a young orphan boy and they call him Heathcliff. Cathy and Heathcliff become inseparable friends. As they age into their teens or early 20s, an attraction grows. A wealthy man named Edgar and his sister move into an estate next door and Cathy becomes acquainted with them. As the story goes, Edgar asks Cathy to marry him and she agrees in order to escape poverty and her alcoholic father. Heathcliff runs off and becomes mysteriously wealthy on his own. He returns looking good, cleaned up, and of course Cathy is confused. I won't spoil the end.

The story and movie certainly showcase how challenging the 1800s were. People were just getting by and barely surviving. There were a wealthy few and the rest of the people were peasants, living on rural farms, and surviving on little food. Girls as young as 12 and boys as young as 14 were pressured into marriages in order to escape poverty for a better life. It really wasn't an amazing time to incarnate on the Earth, but then again, doesn't every century on this planet look pretty rough?

The spiritual perspective is that as souls Cathy, Heathcliff, Edgar, and Mr. Earnshaw would have created a soul plan and agreed to this story. They would be from the same soul group and would have had many incarnations together. For Cathy, her soul challenge would be whether she chooses love over the comfort of wealth. For Heathcliff, his soul would be curious what he will do with feelings of rejection. He has free will, so will he enact revenge or move on? As for Edgar, he intuitively knows that Cathy is not in love with him, will he let her go so she can be with her true love or will he selfishly hold onto her? As a soul, Mr. Earnshaw would have known that there would be a probability of alcohol addiction, will he choose love or abusive behavior?

Even though this is a movie, there are many humans with these very same questions and conflicts. Do you choose love or anger? Do you let someone you love go so they can be happy with someone else? Do you choose passion or financial security? How will you handle addiction in this life? Human life is filled with these questions which is why the soul incarnates here. As souls, we evolve so much through these emotional ups and downs. Life is a rollercoaster on this planet, isn't it?

Many of us have also had past lives during the 1800s, I know I do. As I watched this movie, I kept thinking, gosh my life ain't so bad right now! The 1800s looked dirty and depressing. When we watch period drama movies like this, we may be reminded of a past life during that time period and have feelings about it. It's always interesting to me what movie or book I choose. I think most our interests have meaning and can be connected back to our past lives and soul.

Something very important that I learned while researching spirituality and the journey of the soul is that nothing happens by accident. All our interests, passions, learnings, and challenges have meaning, and the people in our lives are here to either teach us something or the other way around.