This is part 2 of my prophecy series. You can read part one if you missed it
HERE.

What is prophecy? It is a divinely inspired moral message or the foretelling of an event. Prophecy can give oppressed people hope for the future or it can foretell certain doom. We hear a lot about prophecy these days. One person sees this as proof of one thing another points to that. The end times are near. I'm not a believer in the end of the world. I see more of an ending of an age and the evolution of mankind. It could be a tough transition but even that is only possibility.

I've always had a deep interest in predictions even if I didn't believe them. In my youth I studied most of them. For example I know of at least four prophecies of a polar shift. One a Cheyenne story of a beaver who is gnawing at the pole that holds up the Earth and when it finishes the Earth will tumble and fall into an abyss. The other I couldn't find the source, but it may have been Hopi or Sioux. It involves two serpents that are coiled at the poles of the Earth. If they uncoil then it's the end of our world. A third is part of the prophecies of the Sleeping Prophet, Edgar Cayce and the fifth is from the famous Nostrodamus. This one is intriguing in that it is the only prediction/s that are not given in quatrain form. It is instead included in a larger letter to the king.

The end of the world, coming Messiahs, the fall of an opressor is among the most common theme. The prophecy can come in many forms. Some as waking visions, some are delivered by divine messenger, and others in the form of dreams. Dreams are another fancy of mine and I pay close attention to my own and those close to me.

In the Star Wars universe we have the prophecy of the chosen one. I find it odd that a group such as the Jedi would bother with a particular prophecy when each member of the order has visions of possible futures in one way or another. But it advances the story plot so I guess I won't quibble about it. I wonder if the Sith had their own version of the chosen on prophecy along side the Jedi?
Anyway, this particular prophecy tells of one who will be born from the Force and would bring the long sought balance to the Force. It seems an incomplete prophecy in that it failed to say the chosen one would be born of BOTH sides of the Force. A living GFFA version of a yin and yang symbol.
I wonder too how much of it was prophecy being realized and how much was self fulfilling. If you expect a certain thing to happen it would be easy to find someone or something you think fits the bill and make it reality. Anakin did this with his visions of Padme's death. His desire to stop them coming true was the catalyst that made it real. One could argue that this is irrelevant and it may have been the plan of the higher power to all along to use the hopes, fears and expectations of the believers to make it happen. A paradox of propheticism.

Whether out of fear of hope prophecy in all it's forms brings an anticipation of something on horizon. The possibility of change and maybe, just maybe a better tommorrow.