After we are done fumbling through our earthly lives/and many incarnations developing our spiritual self. What do you think happens? Where does the spirit/soul go..? Or do you think the cycle is endless...
There is a physical law, I forget what it is called, that all physical existence heads toward destruction. What we understand as spiritual existence, on the other hand, seems not amenable to destruction but, if anything, to ascension. The Bible gives perhaps a simplified view when it categorizes spiritual death as an outcome of dogmatically rebellious behaviours, when astrology shows us value judgements of this type are not strictly truth-proper but, rather, soul and psychological perspective, only. For instance, with time, we learn the value of life events we once thought were meaningless or unfortunate. I think this soup of individual and differing perspectives is necessary for Earth to qualify as a type of school. We are all like Brownian Motion bouncing off one another, or sharpening each other like iron and iron; physically dying but spiritually evolving.
I've found myself often irritated in life by the people around me who have ultimately hurt me in some way. What's hurt me even more, however, is learning my faults in hurting others through own ignorance by insisting on my view. It was never truly a war between me and them, ever; it was a war between me and me; the physical me with the narrow, lazy mind, and the spiritual me that I shut out when I am preoccupied with the self. Even if I win against someone, I immediately feel a loss inside, probably because I am not here to compete but to love. On the rare occasion, when I've been strong enough to be selfless, the outcome has been a feeling of release from the prison of self. These shifts in perspective show me, deep down, I learn nothing except the value of love, everything else, by comparison, is meaningless. What I mean is, I know nothing except the value of love. From birth, instinctively, we get upset when we do not get it; and it can be the greatest gift when we give it. We are so constrained in the human condition, we spend our lives learning about the value of love.
I say all that because I think we need the people/situations who we perceive to be bad to sharpen us into growing in love; we can't grow in love without them. We know our love all too well for those we perceive to be good, when we lose them or they die and love is the only thing that survives. Even when, what seem like, unfortunate things happen, like tragedies, it is perhaps of not much use to take on a stance of anger, but acceptance of perspective, a cause-effect universe, that whatever is lost will find the perfect balance, again. Feelings of guilt about things said and not said and done are of no use, because we are seldom in control of the greater scheme, and that is a good thing. This life is characterised by death and it only teaches us about love. Physically we know we live a short life and perish; but, spiritually, my relationship with God tells me we are in a system. The only question is, does it have purpose or is it purposeless? Is anything in the universe purposeless?
The medium of natal astrology is to me, in part, a depiction of placing the shoe on the other foot, a unique prescription according to unique soul growth for a lifetime of walking in someone else's moccasins. We will each get to experience the 'other side,' ultimately, of that love we failed to give or receive (I feel like Joey from Friends). The Bible says in Luke (20:42-43), God will make your enemies the footstool for your feet. So far in my life, I've come to understand this verse to exemplify one of the ways we grow in love is by humility (and the other fruits of the Spirit, like patience, long-suffering, etc.) in this world. I think some religious teachings are inspired spiritually by our Source and heeding them can assist, if not accelerate, the process to graduation -- when we mature in love, to such a great extent, the completely selfless extent, that the self can no longer weigh down the spirit; the spirit will just ascend to become One with the Source.
God, in His Grace, allows to us to cushion the blows by having a relationship with Him and exercising some free will over our circumstances. But, in sum, our real power is in overturning it and our graduation is when we become that real power which is true love.
Just my perspective, of course.