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HOW DO I FIND MY PURPOSE?

Purpose is found in your experiences of the moment, in expression as well action, and it is not just one thing. Purpose is not defined as an end-goal or a product launch. Your understanding of purpose, and your purpose specifically, evolves over the course of your life as you expand in self-awareness.

While purpose can be expressed through a vocation or vocations, the vocation actually provides the CONTEXT for the expression of one’s purpose. In and of itself a vocation is not your purpose, although some vocations will be beautifully aligned with your purpose.

Think about your purpose as the pursuit of your excitement and curiosity — which always includes following your heart — rather than as something that is easily contained or defined by a business or job or career. The reason is: purpose is ultimately about finding and staying connected to all those things that will support the continued expansion of your consciousness and your joy.

Live your life at a pace that is always consonant with your energy levels. Be aware of your level of vitality so that you don’t push when you are tired. When you are tired, it is time to slow down. It is time to restore yourself. Body, mind, and heart. This means eliminating tasks that do not support your sustainability and saying no to commitments that will demand time, energy, and interests that you don’t have.

Take stock of your talents and interests because the clues to your purpose are here. Your talents and interests will become skills if you invest time and energy into them. Your skills are the specific tools given to you by design to help you discover your purpose, and to support it. The more you use your skills, the more your purpose will unfold. 

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BRINGING YOUR DESIGN TO LIGHT

Twin, triplet, and quintuplet charts deepen our understanding of how Human Design uniquely manifests in real life. Even with identical charts from the same birth moment, each individual expresses their Design differently. This unique expression is at the heart of Human Design’s value. Why does this happen? Keep reading!

Our Design, as defined by our unique Human Design chart, describes how our energy is meant to flow. It shows us our best tools for applying our energy, making appropriate choices, identifying our greatest strengths, and what we will be drawn to. The direction our energy flows is meant to show us where and how to carry out our life plan and soul purpose. This is because our energy naturally flows toward what we are meant to do, be, and learn.

Our Design energies express themselves through our creativity, our relationships with others, our sense of place in the world, the vocations that interest us, and how we find meaning and fulfillment. In other words, our Design is the map that leads to the highest expression of our purpose. Above all, your Design is intended to serve your ongoing evolution.

However, the Chart is not the Soul. Human Design offers a framework for understanding our energy, but core individuality extends beyond the chart. This distinction is essential to Human Design’s purpose: to illuminate your unique expression rather than prescribe a uniform outcome.

Although twin charts—whether fraternal or identical—share themes, each twin expresses them uniquely. Each person is born with a unique agenda or soul contract. Many influences beyond Human Design shape us, including psychology, astrology, numerology, sociology, genetics, and upbringing, to name a few. Even twins in the same family perceive things differently. Each part of the Human Design chart has a range of expression, from reactive (lacking awareness) to aware (understanding responses and their impact). Everyone, consciously or not, chooses how to express their Design.

Most importantly, we each have a unique soul trajectory that describes where we’ve been and who we’ve been, including how we’ve treated others, how others have treated us, and how we may have affected collective history, for better or worse.

Our soul history shapes the purpose and direction of our current lives. In other words, the dharma, or life purpose, which we incarnated to express and explore, and the karma we came to restore (karma meaning the law of cause and effect, where past actions influence current experiences) are influenced by our previous lives. Karma is inevitable, as all actions must be brought into balance. Dharma is necessarily woven into the fabric of our lives.

This is because the Universe’s direction evolves toward higher consciousness. Higher consciousness is about unity, not exclusion. Exclusion always creates imbalance, inequity, suffering, and ongoing karma. The agreements or soul contracts we’ve made help us connect to our dharma and lead us to the karmas that seek resolution.

Your life is woven into a complex tapestry of evolutionary intentions, spanning from the personal to the collective. This field is nurtured within the boundless consciousness of the Universe, which no single interpretive modality or combination can fully express. Its breadth appears immeasurable, and its origins shrouded in mystery.

The bottom line is that how any Design will express itself has everything to do with the Soul that took it on for that lifetime. Again, souls are at different stages in their evolution — we have different histories, some longer, some shorter. Some of us are younger souls, while others are older. All of these influence your unique goals (dharma) and obligations (karma) in life.

As you become more aware of who you are and what you came here to do, your discernment about which choices are right for you also increases.  

This is why even those with your exact Design will lead dramatically different lives—the soul’s uniqueness determines how any chart is lived, underscoring Human Design’s true power.

So, what does this reveal about Human Design’s value for self-discovery? Its power lies in helping you understand your unique soul’s purpose, even when Designs are identical.

Because different people can be born with the same chart, does that render our Design meaningless? Does it mean we can’t use our Human Design to identify our uniqueness and purpose and to help us anchor in that purpose? Of course not.

You give your Design its meaning and direction. Human Design is a tool; your soul determines its purpose in your life.

Your Design offers valuable information and points you in the right direction. It is up to you, the unique soul living that Design, to express it as you intend. You are more than your Human Design, but you can use it to find your path and purpose.

Even if you do not believe the Soul creates intentions or has a trajectory shaped by previous lives, you are still driven by unique yearnings that compel you to create an authentic life.

I leave you with this: follow your Soul’s (or your authentic) intentions, because therein lies the direction for your life.

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GETTING BACK YOUR MOJO

Have you lost your mojo, your energy, passion, and sense of purpose in life? This feeling of emptiness and lack of excitement that you may be experiencing is often a sign of burnout—a state that touches every aspect of our being. Many of us face periods when nothing seems enjoyable, rewarding, or worthwhile. If you’re feeling stuck or disconnected, you’re not alone.

No mojo means you’re burned out. Burnout has multiple origins and affects every aspect of our being: we become physically tired, emotionally exhausted, unfocused, and spiritually depleted. When burned out, nothing appeals, and questioning your purpose is easy. Disconnection from meaning, purpose, and oneself can leave you feeling cut off from life.
Burnout can last for a brief period or persist for years. It can block your ability to see alternatives and find solutions to reclaim your life. This mindset convinces you there’s no way to turn things around, so why try?
Now that we’ve identified what burnout can look and feel like, let’s examine what might be behind it.

Causes of burnout:

      • Investing your energy in unfulfilling projects.
      • Committing to things without genuine interest or out of obligation.
      • Chasing a dream that may not be your dream.
      • Overdoing it and not enough rest.
      • Losing a loved one, including pets.
      • Did you move somewhere you didn’t want to be?
      • Did someone betray you?
      • Did you lose your job?
      • Do you secretly feel not good, talented, or smart enough?
      • Or not attractive enough?
      • Do you hide your feelings of inferiority with extra effort?
      • Is your food nourishing you?
      • Have circumstances changed suddenly and unexpectedly?
      • Have you forgiven yourself?
      • Have you forgiven?
      • When was the last time you saw beauty?
      • Have all the things you tried to get unstuck yielded zero results?
      • Have you given up on getting meaningful change?

Recognizing possible causes is the first step. Let’s talk about how you can move forward.

Take time to do some serious resting. Take a break from expectations about who you should be or what you should have accomplished. Pushing yourself now will only worsen burnout. Without clarity or focus, seeking solutions will exhaust you further and may seem pointless.

The dark seduction of burnout is believing there’s no hope or solution. Review your track record—remember when your talents benefited others. Much of what we think is important is superficial or untrue. Identify where these myths trap you. Free yourself. Walk away.  

Focus on rest. Nurture yourself with what brings you joy—nature, pets, music, poetry, or art. Tend to your basic needs and release pressure to feel better immediately. Patience is key; your desire for change is the crucial first step.

Commit to reclaiming your life. Despite difficulties, you remain in control and have the power to advocate for yourself. You are valuable as you are, and every decision should serve your best interests. Write yourself into a new story.

You can tune into your desires for the future. Let your choices serve the life you want, the way you want to look and feel, the people and experiences you seek. Be patient and kind to yourself. Many who survived the holocaust found comfort in memories and dreams of a better future.

Beyond rest, there are practical steps to help reignite your enthusiasm:

      • Put on music. Dance. Get your energy flowing again.  
      • There is something you’re passionate about. Reconnect with it!  
      • Believe in yourself. Choosing to do so will create your own personal movement.
      • Trust your intuition. Don’t second-guess yourself.
      • Focus on what is working, focus on your strengths. Focus on what makes you feel happy.
      • It’s okay not to know the outcome, the answers, or how you will get from here to there. Let your creativity unfold and lead the way.
      • Surround yourself with beauty. Yes, there is still beauty! Create beauty.
      • Could you write your story the way you want it to be?
      • Treat yourself with love and respect.
      • Get out of your head. Stop overthinking and second-guessing yourself.
      • Create rhythm and consistency in your life.
      • Enjoy being YOU.

You can reawaken your mojo by moving toward what calls you and taking small steps to feel alive again. Life holds enormous possibilities. While you are here, there is much to explore and enjoy. But first: rest, let go of demands and expectations, and surrender to life’s flow. There is another vision for you. When ready, take action and live as yourself.

After taking steps to recover your energy, go deeper: identify your core essential truth. It is indefatigable and primal, helping to get you moving.
Something endures at your core, unchanged by time or place. This is revealed when everything else is stripped away. Your life anchors in this truth—it is steadfast. Stay connected, and it will sustain you.  

What do you need to do to release, heal, and align to reconnect with your core essential truth?

It’s human to experience isolation, depression, and loss of hope or focus. This can happen when we ignore our needs or what’s around us. We often fall to rock bottom and must find a way back up. Many have fallen and recovered. Don’t see what happened as permanent. Every event is just a point in your life’s journey. As long as you say yes to life, more follows.

Even if your original plans fail, don’t give up. Your soul still finds ways to realize its agenda, even if the helpers and timing have changed. Because you have a purpose, the force behind it persists. Despite obstacles, your soul strives to create the experiences intended for you.

As long as you are alive, change will happen, and new opportunities will arise. Keep your heart open, and when a hand reaches out to pull you up, take it. Say YES to life!

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THE QUEST FOR RIGHT VOCATION

Instead of struggling to identify a specific vocation, focus on what matters to you. What did you love to do as a child? You can look there for clues. What excites you? What feels adventurous? What makes you eager to start your day? These are hints to your vocation. Activities and topics you feel drawn to can highlight your next career. Follow your instincts, and your most fulfilling way of engaging with the world vocationally will follow.

•    What do you love to do? You want to enjoy your work, so think about activities that make you lose track of time.

•  Which specific activities or situations make you feel so happy and engaged that you lose track of your problems and time?

• What did you once love to do, but have essentially forgotten about or given up on because it didn’t work out at the time or simply made no sense? Or did you not receive much support for it? Revisit it. Re-engage it. These things, whatever they are, are yours. These are your gifts. They are to be used in service to others and for your own continuing development.

• What are you really good at? Again, what you’re good at is also what is fun and meaningful for you.

• What are you really passionate about? Where do your yearnings lead you? Your passion will get you over humps, writer’s block, self-doubt, waiting for an invitation, pretty much anything that rears its ugly little head and tries to talk you out of embracing your natural design. Or, put another way, your inclinations and your yearnings.

• What are you passionate about sharing or teaching others? If you don’t think these points point to your vocation, think again.

• What have you acquired much knowledge in just because you enjoyed going there? In other words, what have you really been training for all your life?

• What are you really good at? Take stock here. What you’re good at is more than a hint of where you should put your time, energy, and attention. What vocations does this translate to?

Having said the above things, consider whether your passions and yearnings best express themselves through a single vocation. Or even as a standard, conventional vocation.

We have been enculturated to believe that one’s talents and passions can best be expressed — or only expressed — through a particular vocation. That may not be the case for you. You may not be here to do “normal” or conventional work or specialize in just one area. Maybe you are here to explore, experiment, and do many things! Your passions and talents will likely connect naturally to several types of vocations or careers. Still, it is best to steer clear of thinking that what is out there in the ordinary workaday world will necessarily be your perfect match. What is important is that you put your attention and energy into what calls you. Follow that, and you will make the ‘career’ connections you need. In other words, you can find the right path for your gifts.

Understand that it is not uncommon that what you do for a living does not always require or ask for the highest expression of your gifts. Your official job may not be as fulfilling for you as a “hobby” in which you find a lot of joy, and where others also benefit. Our way of thinking is that what we do for a living should align with what brings us the most joy and where we have the most significant impact. This is actually not true; in real life, such jobs are not always easy to obtain, although it may work out that way. What is important is that you create the space to use your gifts, even if you are also working a regular job. In this way, you continue to cultivate your unique presence in the world, and most importantly, be your most effective self. You will also have the peace that comes with knowing you are being and doing all you can.

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LET GO AND BE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR LIFE

Be grateful for your life! Appreciate your skills, gifts, talents, and the opportunities you’ve had. Reflect on what you’ve done with them and the creative and exciting things you will achieve in the future. How fun is that?

Embrace your current situation. Accepting reality will foster progress. There is beauty in the moments of your life, but don’t just take my word for it. Look within and discover for yourself.

Understand that your situation is constantly changing. Everything is temporary, and even when it doesn’t feel like it, energy is still shifting and guiding you to your next destination. When we face obstacles or encounter unpleasant or unexpected events, we often assume that these challenges are permanent. We may feel as though all our hard work has been for nothing. This can trigger a fight-or-flight response, leading to chaos and the potential loss of our original inspiration.

When unexpected situations arise, your role is to remain open and curious. Instead of trying to control the situation or direct it in a specific way, focus on following the energy of the moment. Remember that a higher intelligence is at work here.

You are part of a much larger picture. Allow yourself to step out of reaction and connect with the flow of life force energy that emanates directly from within you. This energy is powerful and will guide you toward your next steps.

Your ego isn’t in charge; it will try to convince you otherwise. Your Soul is. Surrender to its guidance, then apply and unleash all your glorious abilities in service to your purpose.

When we feel pressured by a situation, we often want to take immediate action to resolve it. When we anticipate the potential outcome of a current issue, we tend to problem-solve based on that expectation. For example, if I feel that I don’t have enough money coming in, I may worry that I will eventually lose my house. As a result, I might think, “I need to make a lot of money right now to prevent this terrible thing from happening!” This can lead me to work harder to get clients, ignoring my exhaustion and possibly coming across as desperate or unappealing. Alternatively, I might throw myself into a demanding job, hoping to push through without needing much recovery time until I achieve my breakthrough.

Ask yourself: Is this truly an emergency? Misinterpreting a situation as an emergency can lead us to act in ways that hinder the natural progression of events. Instead of allowing situations to unfold, we often intervene and push them in specific directions. How can you be sure that things will turn out as you anticipate? That’s your panic influencing your judgment. Taking action without a definitive need in the moment can lead to undesirable outcomes and result in losses that could have been avoided.

Our standard methods of problem-solving tend to be logical, masculine, and even patriarchal in nature. They often fail to recognize the many factors involved in any given situation. There are multiple strands of causation at play simultaneously, leading to a variety of potential outcomes and expressions. The traditional masculine approach does not acknowledge these complexities, nor does it trust intuition or recognize the natural flow of creativity. It overlooks the fact that there is a nurturing, yin process that requires time to develop. In contrast, the feminine approach to problem-solving is open, adaptive, and follows its own timeline.

The key is to avoid getting caught up in trying to predict uncertain outcomes. Instead, focus on imagining new possibilities. Accept that you may not yet know how you will navigate this situation, and you may not have all the information or tools available to you right now. The creative process requires continuous adaptation and will demand different approaches at different times. If you have been following your true calling, you understand this principle and can trust the process.

If something is truly an emergency, knowing how to act will come naturally and automatically. However, when it’s not an emergency, that beautiful idea or opportunity that wants to emerge requires your patience and trust. During times of uncertainty, it’s important to relax into the unknown. Let go of the need to have all the answers and the urge to force things to happen. While we serve as channels for our creations and manifestations, these ideas are entities in their own right, each with its own process and timing. When you honor and support that process, everyone involved is nurtured toward success.

 

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WELCOME TO YOUR HERO’S JOURNEY

You have a destiny, and to discover it, you must embark on your own hero’s journey. At the start of this journey, you will likely feel pressure from societal norms that promise conventional success if you follow certain paths and remain on them.

To become your true self, you must follow your own path. If you want to discover who you really are, you can’t stick to someone else’s predetermined route. Even the yellow brick road can lead you astray. It could take you to the wrong city, school, or teacher. However, when you choose the path that resonates with you, the one that calls to you, you will come to know yourself and realize what you are meant to do.

You will discover who you are and what the world is made of through your experiences, experiments, and the lessons learned from making mistakes. You won’t know your destiny overnight, so don’t worry about taking a wrong turn. This is a journey filled with many unknowns, and you will encounter situations that you may not know how to handle. However, when you pursue what is fulfilling, you will gradually learn to correct your path. You’ll become more aware when you’ve taken a detour.

It’s not always possible to predict the outcomes of our actions, but we can’t achieve all our growth solely through classrooms, books, movies, or conversations. There are some things we must do ourselves because that’s the only way to discover what is true for us, what feels right, and what brings us joy and fulfillment.

Each of us carries an internal map and compass. But what is this map, and where can you find it? The map is within you; however, it’s as if it were drawn with disappearing ink, and it’s your task to make that ink visible. You do this by following the direction that resonates with you.

If nothing calls to you, take a moment to rest and enjoy your surroundings. Be patient. If you still feel restless, it’s perfectly okay to get up and move; take one step at a time. Trust your inner compass. Please don’t give up, because over time, you’ll find that you are aligning with your map, and new paths will begin to reveal themselves as you continue on your journey.

When the energy around you begins to stagnate, meaning there is nothing more to offer you spiritually, intellectually, or emotionally, it is time to move on. You are still charting your path! It’s essential to explore different situations to discover who you truly are. Through these experiences, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of yourself by interacting with various environments and the people within them. You will learn the limits of what each situation can provide, as well as what you can tolerate and what inspires, motivates, and nourishes you. You are always learning what resonates with you, so embrace that journey.

Practice patience with your journey. Embrace the experiences that provide you with clarity. As you gain more experience, your understanding of your purpose will continue to sharpen. Trust that you are meant to pursue what inspires you, fulfills you, and brings you joy. Your task is to connect with those passions. You are on an exciting exploration, whether you are just starting or have been on this path for years.

At the end of your life, you will possess a unique map that reflects your experiences like no other.

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NAVIGATING YOUR CALLING

Navigating your calling is filled with challenges. Choices can be unclear, and the intentions of others can affect us in ways we cannot control. These outside influences, while not always meant as lessons, still impact our journey. The central message is to stay focused on your inner purpose while remaining adaptive to changing circumstances.

The main principle for navigating your path is this: adopt openness, curiosity, and a willingness to seek help to learn from every experience. Not everything is a lesson or meant for your growth, but you must respond skillfully, manage responsibilities, and maintain accountability to yourself and others. Trust that larger forces are at work even when your way is unclear. Focusing on inner resilience allows you to adapt and move forward.

Building on this idea of aligning with larger forces, it is often easier to fulfill your soul intentions for your INNER life — what you are passionately drawn to, what stimulates your creativity, what pulls you with the force of a giant magnet — because these serve your evolution, and because this is who you are and you can’t help yourself. When you feel compelled to move towards something, it is often because that situation aligns vibrationally with your soul’s overarching purpose.

Our inner life—what we choose to read, study, turn into hobbies, or develop fundamental skills in—is often more successful in achieving its original goals. This is mainly because these pursuits are self-directed and do not require others for fulfillment, unlike a professional career. As we satisfy some of our purposes and yearnings through an active inner life, we experience great joy. Meeting these needs can compensate for many things that do not occur for us in the outer world. Yet our outer lives bring a different set of challenges and dependencies.

Fulfilling our “outer” lives through our professional and vocational pursuits often depends significantly on honoring previously established agreements. Important agreements are established before our incarnation, but some are made subsequently to expand further the original agenda or as backups to failed primary contracts. For example, it could be a business partnership, a decision to date exclusively and be monogamous, take a job where your employer has agreed to pay you a certain salary, sign a lease, or be in a specific location by a date certain to meet — and the other party then breaks these agreements. When this occurs, the goals you were aiming for are delayed, and you must rely on your resourcefulness to find alternative pieces to fill the gaps.

Some goals can even become unattainable when they were dependent on a specific agreement. The loss of essential contracts can make it more difficult to implement your plans as initially conceived. As these losses accumulate, we can find ourselves living ad hoc lives, making things up as we go, and using what’s available to make our lives as agreeable and meaningful as possible, finding ways to compensate for having missed the boat.

When plans stray from their intended course, remember your soul always seeks new ways forward. Even if new pathways differ from what you envisioned or happen on a different timeline, your underlying purpose persists. Staying resilient and connected to your core intentions brings meaning, even during detours, and this focus is the heart of your journey.

Even when dreams are delayed or altered, and the journey takes unexpected turns, trust that support is present. Embrace change and enjoy the unfolding journey, allowing new opportunities to inspire you. Let go of resistance, follow your calling, and remain open to the meaningful possibilities that come your way.

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FOLLOW WHAT FULFILLS TO FIND YOUR PURPOSE

Finding your purpose comes from following what truly brings you fulfillment. I use the term fulfillment intentionally instead of success because success is often linked to social status, wealth, and power. While we might achieve “success” for a while, it can be exhausting and overwhelming if we are trying to be someone we are not meant to be.

Identifying the paths that lead to a life filled with purpose and personal fulfillment is not difficult. Simply follow your bliss, your curiosity, and whatever calls to you, and continue along that path. You will inevitably encounter forks in the road, but if you stay true to your curiosity, you will know which direction to take next. These forks challenge us to remain authentic and honest about what truly feels right for us. Even if we take a wrong turn, no experiences are wasted; every moment provides valuable information.

You will encounter some subjects that you study briefly, while others will become your main focus. However, if you pursue what excites you and follow your interests and passions, you’ll be living your purpose. In doing so, you’ll gather the knowledge you need to continue growing.

Purpose is discovered in your experiences of the moment, through both expression and action. It is not limited to a single definition or end-goal, such as launching a product. Instead, your sense of purpose evolves throughout your life as you grow in self-awareness.

Purpose can be expressed through specific vocations, but a vocation serves as the context for expressing one’s purpose. A vocation itself is not synonymous with your purpose, although some vocations may align closely with it.

Consider your purpose as a continual journey driven by your excitement and curiosity—always accompanied by following your heart. It is not something that can be easily confined or defined by symbols like a business suit, scrubs, a gavel, a hard hat, or an advanced degree. The essence of purpose lies in discovering and maintaining a connection to all the elements that foster the ongoing expansion of your consciousness and joy. This journey is infinite and without end.

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WORKSHEET ON HOW TO IDENTIFY YOUR SOUL’S PURPOSE

Soul intentions are why you incarnate

Soul intentions shape your purpose. These are agreements you made before incarnating—your soul’s agenda. They include dharma, karma, and promises to yourself and others. You’ll know your purpose through the deep desires that call you. Notice what resonates most; it points to why you are here.

Your soul’s purpose isn’t about material achievement or ego. It’s about sharing, giving, and receiving love, and being fully present. Life’s purpose is ultimately to learn to give and receive love.

Your purpose isn’t necessarily tied to a career; it may not be about making lots of money or being famous—at least, not for most of you. Maybe your life purpose is to make money, or maybe it will result in making money, but don’t assume that making a buck is your soul’s primary purpose for being in a physical vehicle. Rather than focusing on which vocation will make you the most money, focus on creating a life that gives you joy and gives you a forum to be of service. If you allow logic to overrule your heart’s desires, you will miss the boat.

Your soul seeks to be fully present and engaged. Whatever drives you to be involved and present is likely a part of your life purpose. By being present in your life and following what calls you, you fulfill your purpose.

State your intentions to connect to your Soul’s purpose: 

I am now connecting with my soul’s purpose. I am worthy of it. Without me, my soul cannot execute or complete its plan. By expressing my soul’s purpose, I bring great clarity and joy to myself and others. By expressing my soul’s purpose, I support the continued unfolding of my soul’s plan. By expressing my soul’s purpose, I support the ongoing unfolding of all creation. I now allow my soul’s purpose to come forth and call me to live it.

Help with identifying your Soul’s purpose:

    • What experiences have been both profound and meaningful?
    • What do you love to do?
    • What activities or situations bring you so much joy that you forget your troubles?
    • What did you love doing but have essentially forgotten or given up on because it didn’t work out at the time or didn’t make sense?
    • What are you naturally good at?
    • What are you really passionate about?
    • What are you passionate about sharing or about teaching others?
    • What are you here to contribute? Don’t overthink it. Just say it.
    • What have you really been training for your entire life?
    • What have you learned a lot about just because you enjoyed going there?
    • What experiences do you want to have? List them.
    • Why do you desire these experiences?
    • What do you need to do or have to gain these experiences?

Community and location: where and with whom you feel aligned provide important information about your soul purpose.

    • Who are your people (who do you feel accepted by, at home with, and comfortable around)?
    • Who are your people (who do you feel accepted by, at home with, and comfortable around)?
    • What organizations and environments do they typically work in?
    • What kind of work do they do?
    • What work environments attract you? Indoors or outdoors?
    • Do you like being around a lot of people? A few?
    • Do you prefer big cities, small towns, or rural areas?

Choose your top values from the following list. Identifying what you value will help you discover your soul’s purpose.

    • Achievement – mastering goals
    • Aesthetics – working with beautiful things and being surrounded by beauty
    • Affiliation – working with people like you
    • Authority – managing or directing other people’s work
    • Creativity – the ability to innovate and try new approaches
    • Ethics/Morals – free to work with your values
    • High Pay – commanding a large salary
    • Independence – free from others’ direction and control
    • Recognition – becoming known for your expertise
    • Status – having a high prestige job

Your infinite Self

Your Infinite Self is your Higher Self, your Super-Wise Self, which sends aspects of itself into the dimensional world to experience a new way of being.

How to connect to your calling

Believe that you can create what you need. When you let go of things that aren’t yours to do, what you are here to do becomes much clearer. Here are some practices to help you let go of behaviors that lead you to take on responsibilities and obligations that aren’t truly yours:

    • Get back inside your own truth. This will reconnect you to your center.
    • Re-engage your creativity.
    • Do the activities that bring you joy and pleasure.
    • Connect with people who truly see and value you.
    • Take breaks and rest!
    • Have genuine, innocent fun.
    • Reconnect with what is beautiful to you.
    • Engage the rich world of your imagination.
    • Remember that you are truly resilient.
    • You are lovable and deserve to be loved.
    • You do have the power to call in and create the right life for yourself.
    • Remember that you have a track record of courage and making the right decisions, no matter how hard it was.
    • You have a unique wisdom, built brick by brick from your life experience, that you can share.
    • Trust yourself to act in your best interests.
    • Strive to be real, that is, authentic to yourself and to others.
    • Value yourself. Understand that the time you have is precious and needed for your evolution and joy, as well as for others.
    • Get to know and respect your energy capacity, and learn to work with it sustainably.

When you apply these actions, what belongs to you will remain, and what does not belong to you will fall away. In this way, your purpose and calling can emerge freely. The gifts and challenges of your journey, along with the hard-won insights and knowledge you have acquired, are too precious, too necessary, and too much fun to be buried or set aside by energy-consuming false callings (including wrongly assumed responsibilities) that distract from and are not aligned with your authentic nature or purpose.

You have to fulfill your calling. That doesn’t mean you become selfish and unavailable. When you act with integrity and faithfulness to your purpose, your responsibilities to others become much clearer.

Next steps

    • Allow yourself to feel your desires. Your desires hold your truths. Identify your truths so you can live from them.
    • Listen to your heart with deep attention.
    • Say yes to whatever makes your heart zing. Your truths will make your heart zing.
    • Let go of thoughts that tell you you’re not good enough. You can do this by facing your fears. Facing your fears will take you to the very edge of your courage. That edge is where you can launch into who you are.
    • Become willing to be on the journey (letting go vs. striving).
    • Live each day as if it were your calling.
    • Take action on what seems most right or most important.

Your Soul’s Purpose Is Your Most Sacred Mission!

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FINDING YOUR LIFE PURPOSE

Do I have a life purpose?

That goes without saying! It was so in the beginning, and it will be so to the end. You have a unique purpose encoded within you. You are here to act from that purpose. You are here to live, breathe, create, and experience health and great joy from that purpose. Living your purpose has immeasurable good. Even if you cannot articulate that purpose at first, if you seek it with an open heart, it will find you.

How can I know my life purpose?

What do you care about? What have you fallen in love with? What did you love to do when you were very young? Look there for your life purpose. What are you compelled to bear witness to? What loosens your tongue to speak the truth? What will make you leap out of bed? Look there for your purpose. The activities you are naturally drawn to and the things you long to learn about or explore will point you to your life purpose. Follow what calls you.

Your soul’s intentions drive your purpose and aren’t tied to the material world, though they must express themselves within it. Remember, the soul isn’t about hierarchy, ego, or one-upmanship. You won’t find your life purpose there. The soul is about sharing, giving, and receiving. It comes from love and being fully present. In its grandest sense, your life purpose is to learn to give and receive love.

Is it about living an exalted life, that is, one where you are famous, glamorous, impressive, and influential, and make lots of money?

Your purpose isn’t necessarily tied to a career; it may not be about making lots of money or being famous—at least, not for most of you. Maybe your life purpose is to make money, or maybe it will result in making money, but don’t assume that making a buck is your soul’s primary purpose for being in a physical vehicle. Rather than focusing on which vocation will make you the most money, focus on creating a life that brings you joy and offers a forum for service. If you allow logic to overrule your heart’s desires, you will miss the boat.

Of course, any life has room for trial and error, especially when finding your life purpose. In fact, you need to make mistakes, and you inevitably will. No matter. Mistakes will teach you what matters to you and what you can live without. This discussion is not intended to imply that only a rigid course of action will get you on the right path. It is the willingness to test the waters and to be resilient when things don’t work as planned or follow a neat trajectory that will be most beneficial in identifying your purpose. The goal is to permit yourself to experiment and not know.

Does my life purpose best express itself through a vocation?

We have been enculturated to believe that one’s life purpose can be expressed best—or only expressed—through a particular vocation. It can be deeply satisfying to pursue mainstream courses of study or take a job in an established and respected vocation. When that is the case, you are meant to pursue those interests further. But many of you are not here to do “normal” or conventional work, or to specialize in just one area. Many of you are here to do many things! Because there is an almost infinite variety of life purposes and ways to express them, you may not always find a vocation that seamlessly aligns with your unique purpose.

The reality is that collective culture and consciousness lag in understanding vocation. As a result, most of you will live your purpose as best you can, whether alongside or in addition to what you do to make a living. The important thing is that you live your purpose and do what you can with the support you have. When you courageously live your purpose, you are truly in the vanguard of raising consciousness about the deeper meaning of vocation, including setting new criteria for the standards by which vocation is valued.

What does it look like when I’m living my purpose? More importantly, what does it feel like to live it?

You will know you are living your purpose when you feel a deep sense of personal fulfillment; you will know, from your sense of accomplishment and satisfaction, that this is what is right for you. Your purpose is something you do, whether or not you get paid for it, because it gives you tremendous satisfaction. Your soul’s need for profound fulfillment and the connection to all things that arises from living your purpose will light a fire under your feet.

What is the common denominator across every life purpose?

Your life purpose takes shape and meaning from your soul. Your soul drives your life purpose. So you can ask: What does my soul want? What is meaningful to my soul? Your soul wants to be fully present and engaged. Whatever compels you to be present and fully engaged is your life purpose, or part of it. By being present to your own life and following what calls to you, you will live your purpose. How do you get there? It’s actually quite simple. You do it all the time without thinking about it. Follow your bliss. Follow your joy; follow your yearnings. If you follow your joy, you will gradually shape a life in sync with your life purpose. Your joy and fulfillment are your clues.

I want to be faithful to my life purpose. I want to live it, but I don’t know the next step because I’m still not clear about that purpose.

Trust that the next step will become clear. Take the step that excites you most — this is always your cue for the right direction. Taking the next step toward your joy is far better than not moving at all. If you find yourself losing your joy, correct your course to reconnect with it. When you follow your joy, your life will gradually realign with your life purpose. When you follow your joy, what is right for you will find you. If you cannot feel anything, move forward anyway. You will find what feels best again.

Believe in yourself.

Believe you have a right to be here. You have as much right as anyone to be here. A place in this world is yours alone. Your role and contributions are needed more than ever.

What is calling you right now?

Pay close attention to what draws you. Significant clues here can help you find your purpose. Are you responding to those clues, or ignoring them because they seem impractical and perhaps even crazy? Trust that you were built to overcome the obstacles to your purpose. Trust that you are meant to follow your path, however crazy and unwise it may seem to others. If you live your purpose authentically, you will be supported.

Our world desperately needs your gifts! This makes it imperative that you live your purpose. Pay attention to what will not leave you alone. Living your purpose is not just for your sake, though that is important, but also for the world’s sake. Because each of us contains a unique piece of the creative genius behind this world’s design, every human being must participate. Therefore, understand that being who you are is everything. Your divine assignment is meant to drive this world’s evolution; it works only when you live your purpose.

Develop your talents to the fullest and use them to make the most significant contribution you can – this is true success.

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DRAWING DOWN YOUR SOUL, PART III

What is the Soul?

The soul is that part of you that never dies and is reborn into incarnation after incarnation. The soul is the part of you made by the Creator Source, of the Creator Source, and the Creator Source. Your soul is your portal back to God. It is your piece of God, and it is what makes you God. Your unique experiences, contributions, mistakes, and insights inspire and teach God and the Universe, causing them to expand.

Each one of us is a unique, never-to-be-seen-again expression of personality and soul. And just as no two snowflakes are alike, no two souls are alike. Each one of us is created in a way unlike any other. Each one of us has a legacy to fulfill that is unlike any other. That is why it is so critical to do what you agreed to do. Your legacy begins with your unique piece of the Tao. That legacy is the result of the path your soul has traveled, lifetime after lifetime. Your signature, or frequency, is unique. This frequency is your piece of the Tao, or your chip off the old block that is God. No one else has it.

Your soul transmits your legacy of evolving consciousness to your physical being. This legacy of consciousness incorporates the body of experience gathered from both the incarnate and discarnate planes. It is the cumulative sum of your soul’s trajectory (the history of where you’ve been), set in motion long ago. Your soul’s trajectory compels you to seek your purpose for this life. Your soul is equipped to guide you, first and foremost.

How do I draw down my soul? 

This can also be asked as: How do you bring your life into alignment with your truth? There is no manual other than listening to the call of your intuitive knowing. When you listen to that call, you become increasingly adept at discerning the next right action. You do not need to wait for inspiration per se. By taking actions that best reflect what you know is true for you, you will connect to your path. It is critical to take action, even if it is not yet clear exactly what that action is or how it should look. It may seem counterintuitive, but you need to stay engaged even if you don’t know your next step. As you move forward, you will self-correct because you will know when you’ve stepped off your path.

More tools for drawing down the soul

Follow your yearnings. They are valuable sources of information. It’s important to know what will give you emotional satisfaction. If you want to be happy, you’ve got to tune into your yearnings and follow them. When you follow your yearnings and let them be expressed, they will lead directly to your appropriate way of being and expressing yourself in the world. That’s because they demand a certain kind of focus and experience. In fact, whether you are aware of carrying an internal agenda for your life or not, you will connect more and more to your soul intentions, because that is the inevitable result of following your yearnings.

How will I know when I’ve drawn down my soul?

Latent powers, talents, and abilities you never knew you possessed will emerge. You will feel, along with great excitement, great fear. You will find yourself blasted right out of your comfort zones. You will be challenged to walk a path seemingly covered with burning coals, and this path apparently continues – and continues. You understand that you will have to plunge ahead into the unknown and into terror if you are to take a stand for yourself, for your right to live your right life. You will also have the inexpugnable sense that you are the one in charge of creating your life, and this recognition alone will empower you to slog on. After all, you are your own highest authority, and you do know what is best for you. You will come to know without hesitation that you have finally come face to face with the Divine. Your great excitement will lead you to your Great Work – the creation of your life, the life you were meant to live.

Your soul’s purpose continually expands and evolves

Drawing down your soul is not a one-time act or event; it is ongoing for the rest of your life. This is because your soul seeks mastery and expansion. The soul needs expansion. Once you have mastered a subject or activity, you will feel the urge to create something new. The soul’s nature is to continually reach toward greater exploration and greater soul expression. The soul is meant to create without end. Each time you are in a process of expansion, remember that the map has not yet been created, and your ongoing willingness to be creative with your next step will create it. Working with your soul purpose will stretch you beyond what you thought was possible. No one develops mastery or finds their greatness without being stretched or taking on some struggle.

In your struggle toward mastery, your soul is your greatest and most loyal ally. You will be empowered to bring your divine plan into form by unfolding and activating your gifts. With your soul as your co-creative partner, you will be motivated to fulfill your purpose. Your soul is your blueprint for your life. Your soul is you.

 

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DRAWING DOWN YOUR SOUL, PART II

Your birthright is to express your true gifts. The activities you are naturally drawn to, and what you long to learn about or explore, indicate your birthright and soul purpose. The key is to follow the paths that you find fulfilling. Every human being is an aspect of the Creative Impulse that spurs humanity’s and the world’s evolution. Therefore, understand that being who you are is everything. It is what truly matters, because your role as a positive force in this world’s evolution is effective only to the extent that you have drawn down your soul and activated your true nature.

When you find your efforts repeatedly obstructed, it is because you are pursuing goals that are not right for you. Closed doors and rejections clearly show that your current approach is not for you. Conversely, when you make concerted efforts toward the activities that are your birthright, you will receive assistance to move ahead. This assistance comes in many forms: through dreams; through words not necessarily spoken to you but meant for you just the same; through strangers as well as through co-workers, family, and friends; through those who share your values; and through open doors. You will feel as if you have just emerged from deep waters you have aimlessly swum in for a long time. You will have broken through to a brightness and freshness that offer new vistas you had no idea existed.

Your soul is in partnership with the universe. When you sincerely seek to identify and follow your mission, you will receive assistance from many quarters. When we say that the Universe itself is available to help you, we include everyone who makes themselves available to answer your questions and reflect your thoughts back to you; we include the words you read and hear that especially resonate with you, finding deeper meaning in them; we include the images that speak to you; we include your dreams; we include physical sensations and emotional responses that evoke a heightened sense of knowing that something is right for you. These are among the ways the Universe conspires with your soul to guide you.

Sometimes things are really, really tough. There will be times when you find yourself in extreme circumstances, as the saying goes, stuck between a rock and a hard place. Examples include job losses and long periods of unemployment, during which you watch your resources dwindle to nothing; health crises that leave you unable to support and care for yourself and your dependents; or the departure of someone you depended on to maintain your financial stability. Add to this dismantling of your life the crippling losses of a beloved pet or a breakup with your longtime beloved. When your house is burning down, your only recourse is to surrender. I know you didn’t ask for this. You didn’t want it, either. Not by a long shot. Not ever. And you’ll be damned if you surrender. Until you can’t take it anymore.

But now that your house has burned down, and the resources you depended on to maintain the coherence and stable foundation of your life are gone, you are dependent on your wits and the kindness of strangers. And of your friends and family. And hopefully, there will be some kindness. In these times of extended crises, when we are stripped of our anchors, our comforts, and our very identities, the soul has an opportunity to assert itself in full-blown clarity. It’s hard to believe, I know, but when we are stripped down to nothing, that is when we can truly see, once we clear the terror from our eyes. And you will not clear the terror until you walk right into and through it. Let me give you some examples of those who worked with seemingly insurmountable life circumstances and a great deal of terror. Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Mother Theresa. These are among the well-known who did not permanently succumb to despair but instead surrendered to the calling of their soul. They pursued their truths despite tsunamis of opposition and heaping platefuls of personal suffering of every conceivable kind, too painful to contemplate. And there are others—Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Chelsea Manning, and Chris Hedges. These outspoken truth-tellers faced ridicule and denunciation because they brought to light information—against the will of the powers that be—that the world community desperately needed to see. These courageous people could have continued to live their lives in relative privacy and quietude, but a calling greater than the peace and safety of their immediate lives compelled them. Your soul’s assignments will sometimes take you completely out of your comfort zone and land you straight in the middle of terror.

Your soul is an out-of-the-box thinker. When we experience terror, the choices available to us expand or contract depending on our ability to think out of the box and push back against the impossible. We can engage a higher level of consciousness, the consciousness of the soul, thereby gaining insight into new options. Your soul is an out-of-the-box thinker. Having traveled thousands of years through time and space and between, it has a perspective and problem-solving capacity that far exceeds the limitations of a frightened mind. When we reconfigure our thinking to include what we once believed possible, entirely new vistas open up. With the creation of a new paradigm and a new lens to look through, all previous paradigms are eclipsed and collapsed. We can now go to places we have not been before and find solutions that we did not know were available.

Human nature is to see only a very small part of the totality of what is going on at any moment. True, we can’t possibly see everything, but we can train ourselves to step outside the normal boundaries of how we respond so we can see more of the picture. Our capacity to see is often limited by our needs of the moment – whether they are physical, emotional, or survival-based. Many influences are always at work in any given situation. We can challenge and remove some of those influences. Some we can eliminate with ease, and some with effort. But once we remove certain influences, we simplify our situation. With expanded soul consciousness, we can train ourselves to hone in on the core issues in any given moment and, armed with this information, solve problems with relevance. We can deconstruct what is happening right now so we have a much better handle on a complex and often messy situation.

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DRAWING DOWN YOUR SOUL, PART I

When I was a little girl and looked in the mirror, I felt strongly that the reflection wasn’t really me. I silently asked, “Who are you?” Where did you come from? Why are you here now? I would get chills when I asked those questions, and the shadows of timelessness would begin to envelop me. My image in the mirror morphed into a thousand different shapes. That was absolutely frightening to my four-year-old self, and I would run away each time. Even so, I kept going back, surreptitiously creeping toward the mirror to investigate my reflection again. As I got older, I stopped pursuing this adventure. I didn’t, however, forget my questions, nor did the deep need to have them answered go away.

To draw down your soul,

you must drink from its well.

But where is that well?

It is the depth you have always carried.

It is the murk where you’ve hidden your deeds

and the light that exposes and cleanses all imbalance.

It is your inheritance and your legacy.

It is you.

What Does It Mean to Draw Down the Soul?

When we draw down our soul, we seek to align with our authentic, true nature so we can remember who we are and act on what we came here to do. Our authentic nature is to act in concert with our higher self. Drawing down your soul means aligning with the aspect of yourself that resides permanently in the higher-vibrating planes. It also means activating that eternal aspect from within.

Why Draw Down Your Soul?

So you can find out what you planned to do when you got here. So you can come to know who you really are. The great yearning to uncover the mystery of who we are, and the great yearning to take ourselves on our own heroic journey, propel us to draw down our soul. By aligning with our souls, we will come to know ourselves and truly see what we are made of. The current trajectory we’re traveling – what we do, who we meet, and bring into our inner circle – will drastically change.

When you bring down your soul, you will step beyond your comfort zone, but you will also experience your high potential as it unfolds before you. When you align with your soul’s plans and purpose, you will be astonished to discover you can stretch beyond what you ever thought possible in what you can create for your life and for the benefit of others. You cannot wait to get out of bed to get back on task, because when you bring down your soul, you bring Creation into manifestation. You are standing in the shoes of God.

You Were Born to Greatness

Greatness unfolds as you live out your soul purpose. To live your greatness, you must know who you are and, in each moment, do what you can to support that. Your soul holds vast reservoirs of knowledge and abilities you have acquired over your many incarnations. When you bring forth the sum of those gifts, you can create profound change in yourself and in the world. Think of your soul as your personal library, filled with everything you need to guide you toward a life that is clearly directed, resonates with rightness, and is deeply fulfilling. Your purpose’s greatness is not defined by fame, conventional power, or fortune and wealth. Greatness is not defined by being in the world’s limelight in an exalted way – it is about successfully identifying, pursuing, and accomplishing your purpose.

When you are not living your purpose, your life is at best dull, ordinary, and unfulfilled. At worst, it is marked by setbacks and even cruel experiences. Overcoming the limitations of being in the wrong place and situation is difficult. It is nearly impossible to come into our own when we are in the wrong environment, with the wrong people, and applying ourselves to tasks that are not ours.

You Were Born to Power

Most of us never access the power we have because we have agreed to conform to cultural paradigms. You were born the leader of your life. You are in charge. Sometimes, even often, it seems absurd to think of ourselves as leaders, especially as powerful leaders of our lives, when we don’t seem to have much power or control over anything. When our livelihoods don’t yield much in paychecks or meaning, or when a livelihood is nowhere to be found, it certainly doesn’t feel or look like we have much say over our lives. But these circumstances, painful as they can be, are not statements about our value or our true power. They don’t reflect who we are. We may believe that we have no value, but the truth is, our value always stands outside of time and place. You cannot give in to any belief that says your value rises and falls with your accomplishments and others’ approval. We may believe that we have no power, but the truth is we have the power to move heaven and earth.

Can you say more about this power we have to move heaven and earth?

When we say you have the power to move heaven and earth, we mean your innate capacity to bring into being the life you agreed to live, even in the face of challenges you find yourself in, or have been in, for quite some time. We are referring, specifically, to your personal power, the power that comes straight from your soul. That is the power to lead your life. We are also referring to your capacity for resilience in the face of uncertainty and opposition. Your soul will lead you, but you must be open to receiving its guidance. This information comes in many ways and through many sources. These are the sources that speak to the depths of you, sparking heightened excitement and curiosity. You will know when you are hearing your truth – it will have the unmistakable ring of conviction. You will know beyond a doubt that your soul is speaking to you.

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SOUL INTENTIONS, PART II – A REFLECTION ON SOUL PROGRESSION

(This is a continuation of a discussion that began with Soul Intentions, Part I—A Reflection on Soul Purpose

What is Soul History?  How Soul History and Soul Intentions Create Your Soul Trajectory

Soul History records what you have done in each incarnation. Your Soul History also includes your role within your originating group and the groups your Soul has associated with over its many incarnations. These groups are formed around a larger vision that requires everyone’s cooperation. That larger vision encompasses an aspect of Divine Evolutionary Intention that is beyond our ability to truly grasp. We can, nonetheless, try to guess at that larger intention through the part we play in it. Soul groups themselves create trajectories, for better or worse, and your various incarnations will move between different groups, learning from the primary focus, or dharma, of each one.

Some groups focus on dismantling what no longer serves; others have agreed to create what sustains all; yet others will preserve and protect what sustains all; and others build bridges that connect cultures. These are just some of the foci that groups rally behind; there are many more. Over time, soul group intentions (or their failed expressions) leave their mark in history, and where they have failed, much work and attention are required to repair, reinvigorate, or even create new forms that will support the original intentions. These experiences inform and define your own trajectory.

A trajectory is the arc traced by your soul’s progress as it creates, with each incarnation, its unique history across time and space. Your trajectory is defined by how you have lived. If we assigned a thick ribbon of light to a life well lived and a thinner ribbon to a life handled less well, a soul’s trajectory could show increasingly thick ribbons connected to thinner ones, then back to thicker ones, as it etches its record through time. Alternatively, we could graph a trajectory using a 100-point system, with the highest points given to lives well lived and fewer points for lives handled less well. The graphed trajectory for a life that went back and forth could show dramatic rises and dips. We can do well in some lives and then find ourselves taking the proverbial two steps back in subsequent lives.

Of course, one could reasonably argue that if one does well in a life, overcoming desires for revenge, for example, and generally rising above most fears, the trajectory should improve, arcing higher with each life. In lives where the heart expands with unconditional love and a person’s actions are informed by that expansion, the graph would spike. Or, using the ribbon-of-light analogy, the ribbons would thicken markedly. Some life circumstances will be far more challenging and require more “light” to manage, but over time your soul’s trajectory will reveal its unique pattern.

A trajectory is not created randomly. The Soul’s Intentions create it. Soul Intentions are created to fulfill your agreements with yourself and with others. These Intentions compel us to take on incarnate form, because life is required to fulfill them. Their agenda is driven by what your soul desires to experience and by what you may need to release or delete from a former life.

We do not always live out our Soul Intentions; we may become disconnected from them across many lives, in whole or in part. This can happen when we choose to “go our own way” rather than follow the original life plan. It can also happen due to external interference. When we lose our connection to our Soul Intentions, life can become more confusing and even difficult.  

One Soul’s history and how that history demonstrates how a soul might seek to express its intentions

Now we will look at the trajectory of a young woman, Emily, who sought to understand the origin of the pain in her heart. Emily is seated before her Council of Elders. She is deep within Spirit territory, in a regression process that has already taken her through a past life in which she died by her own hand. Emily tells the Council she is experiencing pain in her heart. She believes this pain stems from her attachment to a man she loves. This man, Brian, is much older than she is and is also married. The Council is gathered in what appears to be a bright, open meadow. Emily feels optimistic. She knows she will get the answers she seeks.

Emily asks how she can let go of her powerful attachment to Brian and fulfill her highest purpose. The Council tells Emily that Brian is connected to her purpose, but she must be patient. There are still things to unfold. She asks again about the pain and wants to know what she agreed to do in this life. First, the Council reviews her past-life connections to this man.

A Council Elder speaks: This soul is not a member of your originating soul group. He belongs to a “mate” soul group. You first met about 4,000 years ago in a desert that looks like Saudi Arabia. You were a member of a nomadic tribe that lived in the desert, moving when water sources dried up. The tribe had sheep and goats. You were a small girl when a group of horseback marauders raided the camp dwellings. Their way of life was to plunder and destroy, taking whatever supplies, food, and women they wanted. The man you are currently involved with was a young teen then, and his heart did not truly embrace the violence of this way of life. Nevertheless, it gave him the skills and companionship he needed to survive. The young teen intervened on your behalf, saving your life, and from then on he cared for you. This was the beginning of the love that grew between you, though it was not an easy love. This young man did the best he could to raise you, but it was a hard life for a woman, and you died at an early age, still filled with grief. This is the originating source of the pain in your heart.

In their next life, Emily and Brian met in Oregon in the late 1700s. They were siblings. They were very young when they were playing by a creek and were shot with arrows by an Indian who was angry at the white “invaders” settling in Oregon in greater numbers. As Brian and Emily’s souls departed, they promised to be there for each other the next time they incarnated together.

Emily and Brian meet again in rural England in the early 1800s. Retaining the same gender as before, they marry and spend their lives on a small farm. They have two children – a boy and a girl. They live a happy, though hard, life, caring for each other and their children, and they die in their 50s. They share a strong, loyal connection and support each other in every way. Their heart bond deepens with each successive life they share.

The Elder shows Emily one more life in which she and Brian find each other again, this time in London. Brian is well-off and entitled. Emily is poor and lives outside the city. They occasionally see each other when Emily goes into the city to purchase supplies. When they first meet on the street, they feel a sense of familiarity and are drawn to each other, but they do not act on it. Their interaction consists solely of glances. Emily, ten years younger, would love to approach Brian, but she cannot do so outside an appropriate social context. And given that she is not his equal, the meeting will never happen. With little to do, Brian hangs out in saloons, drinking and gambling. To Emily’s sorrow, Brian eventually marries someone of his social standing. He later dies in a saloon brawl, shot through the chest. Emily sees him in his last moments, as he lies dying in the streets. This life, in which they were forced to keep their distance and couldn’t explore their real connection, added to the pain in Emily’s heart.

Emily and Brian’s hearts were initially connected through circumstances that were deeply painful for her, while Brian also found an opening to compassion despite his warrior-marauder perspective. The plight of the small girl whose parents were murdered offered him the opportunity to rise above the lawless, insensitive ways of his band. As the Elder revealed, Emily’s heart pain around Brian had its origins in that life. After that life, the souls of Emily and Brian saw a spiritual opportunity to apply the lessons of the open heart and decided to explore them by incarnating together. As we can see, the pain in Emily’s heart is complex. It began with great anger towards him for 1) what he did to her desert tribe so long ago, and is also complicated by her appreciation of his efforts to save her life. In summary, Emily’s heart bonds to Brian further include: 2) her love for her little brother, 3) her love for her husband, 4) the unrequited love from the London life, and 5) the current situation in which Brian is not available to live his life with her.

In this trajectory, successive incarnations between Emily and Brian do not necessarily create increasingly stronger connections – at least as we understand them from the level of personality and what most of us would like to see happen. A difficult beginning marked by forced contact follows, in which Emily learns to love her enemy, followed by a series of lives with familial bonding. However, in their most recent lives, they are prevented from sharing the profound affection they genuinely have for each other. Personality would much prefer a story in which the lovers are happily and permanently reunited each time, but the soul – like the heart – has its own logic and, more importantly, its own higher purposes.

Now the Council is ready to answer Emily’s question about why she chose the current incarnation. Don’t you remember? You came here to be a peacemaker. We have told you that the best way to bring peace to this world is to help individuals find it within themselves. You are going through this struggle with Brian so that you can learn peace amid personal turmoil and uncertainty. The best thing you can do right now is stay connected to spirit, trust the process, and be joyful.

Emily is also told that each of their souls is working to manifest their individual purpose. She is told that she needs to commit to the path of joy and love. If she does, her attachment to Brian will diminish as her focus turns more and more to fulfilling her unique soul intentions. She is encouraged to pursue her studies in psychology and meditation. They tell her: Yours is a peacemaking soul; it is also an illuminator of love. Healing vibrations for others emanate from your heart when it is open, and you are following your path. You can express these soul gifts through the venues where you seek to study and work. When Emily asks again about the possibility of a future with Brian, she is reminded to pursue the path of love and joy. Understand that this is the highest way to live your life. The path of the heart is the path of wisdom. The future cannot be foretold; you make your destiny by the choices you make in each moment. The more your choices are informed by your soul’s intentions, the more joy and fulfillment you will have.

Through her incarnations, Emily’s soul specialized in the path of the open heart. An open heart will be broken, but a well-navigated broken heart can create expansiveness that holds space for others’ brokenness. It also teaches, by example, that the gifts of an open heart lead to wisdom and compassion. The cumulative influence of her incarnations created a gentle, approachable personality that others find safe and welcoming. Her successful passage through difficult experiences gave her the insights and tools to show others how they can do the same.

Understand the ways in which we can recognize our soul intentions

Emily’s need to understand the purpose of her current life indicates her desire to align with her original soul intentions. Emily’s natural interests in meditation, psychology, reincarnation, and harmonious connections with others have been persistent and strong this life. Her Council validated that these are areas where she could focus her professional efforts fruitfully. They also observed that while these approaches to fulfilling her purpose are appropriate, she could express her soul gifts in other ways, and suggested she explore this further. In other words, Emily should follow the general warp and weft of what she seeks to accomplish, as this will help her discover additional ways to satisfy her objectives. She will be surprised and delighted to find that the spiritual path she is committed to is richer than she realizes.

“What do I need to do to fulfill the requirements of my intentions, and what is my next step toward getting there?”

Pay attention to the experiences that resonate most with you, as they will help you identify and remember what you agreed to show up for. Pay attention to your emotions, as they will guide you. Let go of the paths not taken and the roads not fully traveled, and begin here: live each day as if it were your calling. Without excessive attention to detail or overthinking, choose the activities that seem most right or important. Instead of demanding immediate results, revel in the quietly unfolding intrigue of each moment. Take small steps, one at a time. You don’t need to offer arguments or resistance; simply take each step, improvising as you go. You do not need to know the next step or the next action – by responding to the choices that call to you, to those impulses that seek expression – your life plan and purpose will reveal itself.

As you faithfully listen to the call of your intuitive knowing, you will become more adept at discerning the next right action. You do not need to wait for inspiration. Simply take actions that best reflect what you know to be true for yourself, and you will steadily regain your footing on your course as you remember your passions, which will reconnect you to your soul intentions.

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SOUL INTENTIONS, PART I – A REFLECTION ON SOUL PURPOSE

Soul intentions are the plans you make before incarnating. You create them to fulfill agreements with yourself and others, rooted in your soul history. Your past shapes their purpose, not whim or chance.

A soul intention isn’t simply asking, “What would I like to do next?” or deciding on breakfast. Soul intentions arise from deep inner directives to pursue specific goals. Notice which information resonates strongly with you; it can remind you of what you agreed to do.

To help clarify your path, let us rephrase the crucial question: “What do I need to do to fulfill the requirements of my intentions, and what is my next step toward getting there?” Before discussing this further, consider the origins of soul intentions, which will provide helpful context for the steps ahead.

Each time you incarnate, you choose a series of tasks aligned with what you plan to accomplish in that life. How do you decide what to focus on in a particular life? This is the million-dollar question, so to speak, but it is not actually that much of a mystery. Your life plans are based on what you have previously experienced and assimilated, as well as what you did not complete. Those experiences with which you feel complete, that is, those in which you mastered a certain skill, came to know the painful limitations and joyous capacities of the body, and understood the extent to which your assumptions expanded or contracted your opportunities and choices, etc., will not call to you in the same way they did when you were eager to test your mettle in these areas. Once you have gained deep knowledge of a curriculum and the critical self-knowledge that comes with exploring the unknown, you are ready to move into a different arena.

At this juncture, you will want to review the actions you took to master various skills and gain certain experiences. On the path to mastery, you sometimes take actions that harm another’s choices. As you can see, the purposes behind re-entry into the physical form of existence are complex. Let us examine an actual past life and review the original plan, the goals accomplished, the actions still needed because of incomplete work, and the desire to explore new territory.

PORTRAIT OF A SOUL

Here is a brief portrait of a young woman who lived in Kansas in the early 1900s. As the scene comes to life, Helen, about 31 and petite, drives a buggy along a dirt road in the country. She wears a plain black dress and a white scarf. The horse is dark chestnut with red tones. The landscape is flat, but the surrounding fields are full of crops. A storm is coming; she hurries. She carries a small bottle of medicine. It is for her elderly, ill father. She drives past a round barn to the house, where her teenage son, Eli, greets her. Her father, Elijah, is in bed. She gives him several spoonfuls of the medicine.

Next, we find Helen at her father’s burial on the farm. Several farmhands help lower the casket into the ground. It is raining, and the ground is extremely muddy. The farmhands’ clothes are soiled and worn. Eli is weeping. Helen does not seem to feel much.

In the next scene, Helen talks with a tall, gaunt man who seems like a lawyer caricature. He is formally dressed, and Helen argues with him about being forced out of her home. Apparently, they’re going to turn her out because she hasn’t paid rent on the land. Despite what seems inevitable, Helen argues confidently and seems to be holding her own – for the moment.

Helen lives in a boarding house where she works long, grueling hours to earn her keep. She spends her days washing, cooking, and cleaning. The work is hard, and though she is only 33, her body is breaking down. Her son attends a one-room school, and she wishes she could teach there.

Helen finds peace in reading and keeping a journal. Some of her journal entries comment on the lack of opportunities for women. Helen recalls her experiments with humane farming and how her neighbors viewed her and her family with suspicion. They kept to themselves because they did not fit in with the community. Helen was also interested in astronomy and owned a telescope. She and her father were kindred spirits.

The boarding house sat in a town that was essentially lawless and dangerous. Men ogled her as she walked by, base and ill-intentioned; she found no suitable husband among them, not that she sought one. She kept to herself, and her primary concern was caring for her son.

Her son is scapegoated and hanged in public for a crime he did not commit. Afterward, his corpse is tied to a horse and dragged through the town amid hostile jeering. These were deeply disturbing, brutal acts that drove Helen to suicide. The hostility of that lawless community was not surprising, given that she and her son were never accepted and were again viewed as suspiciously eccentric.

REFLECTIONS ON HELEN’S LIFE

In Helen’s original soul intentions for this life, an unusually active and inventive mind was integral to what she wanted to accomplish. This goal also carried over from a previous life, when she, then male and an extremely talented musician, planned to spend most of his time composing epic works for orchestra and piano. However, that goal was short-circuited when family business matters unexpectedly demanded that he take the lead in running them, effectively thwarting his intentions. As Helen, she would apply her creativity to inventing useful objects that would positively impact her rural society. This setting would not support a musical life, but it offered compelling enough elements to make it worth living. In another life, she could follow through on her intention to compose. When she reviewed her agenda with her guides for the Kansas life, they also thought this task would be more challenging if undertaken in the body of a woman. It was felt that, given Helen’s advanced soul level, she would benefit from the challenge. Helen was also to experience her husband’s and son’s lifelong love. Helen’s husband was to live longer and protect her. She also did not plan to wear herself out in the dreary boardinghouse, nor was it in her plan to witness such a heinous end to her son’s life, another soul who had agreed to be in her support system.

The parts of Helen’s life plan that were met, at least in part, involved putting her inventiveness into practice. She was handy. She made uniquely designed, highly ornamental lightning rods. She designed humane environments for the farm animals and treated them well. She was also an accomplished, if unknown, amateur astronomer. The plans for this life were interrupted when her husband died, leaving her with fewer resources and without the protection he would have provided. Her son was brutally murdered, a karma-making act that would later need to be repaid to her and her son, and that also led to unbearable grief and the decision to take her own life – which was not part of Helen’s original soul intentions.

PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

Because the intentions for this life were severely abbreviated, Helen’s essence will likely seek to create another life with opportunities for loving, lifelong relationships, a friendlier neighborhood, more time for creative expression, and a greater likelihood of remaining in the home of her choosing. Other situations that now need to be addressed in future life plans will involve healing severe emotional trauma. Some of the trauma will also be addressed in the between-life state. Shortly after Helen’s arrival at the Gateway (immediately after her death), a Specialty Guide met her and showered her with healing light.

Before this life, Helen agreed to let her creativity be on open display in a society that frowned upon a woman’s intelligence. It turned out poorly, and she will likely wait for a better setting before she tries to push this far into conservative mores again. Helen also understood that part of the challenge of her life would be to offer her soul the opportunity to forge a path through obstacles and, despite them, find a way to navigate toward the most positive outcome. Because there are no guarantees once we are in body, we are encouraged to flow with the unpredictability of how a life can unfold and to understand that others’ choices will also affect our capacity to carry out our soul intentions. Much growth and wisdom can come from this, and it will also inform the soul intentions we create, as well as the circumstances we set up to support them. Please note that your plans are made not just for the next life, but for the current life in progress. It is not uncommon for a life to be lived in an ad hoc fashion when the supporting structures you planned for fail to materialize, or when you are (for a variety of reasons) cut off from them. Even when support systems are in place, you often need to make on-the-fly adjustments to compensate for unplanned situations. This is the challenging, exciting, and sometimes hazardous nature of fulfilling soul intentions within palpable dimensionality – but where else to fulfill these? Most importantly, do not forget that you are never left without guidance for the shoals.

For her next life, Helen chose to surround herself with a loving family and opportunities that allowed the intrinsically inventive nature of her soul to express itself in a far less limiting environment. With the help of friendly souls with whom she had a successful history, she created a home where she could live for the rest of her life. In this way, she was able to carry on her soul’s intentions. Helen wanted to positively impact her society, and in her new life she has done so by providing forums where many can meet to share ideas and information. In addition, while Helen’s soul was healing and planning the next life, she decided to expand her interest in creative writing and try her hand at novels that challenge prevailing mores with provocative, controversial, leading-edge themes. This time, Helen returned as a male.

 Soul Intentions, Part II—A Reflection on Soul Progression

    • looks at soul history and how history and intentions create soul trajectory
    • reviews another soul’s previous history and how that history illustrates how the soul expresses its intentions throughout a life;
    • understands the ways in which we can recognize our soul intentions and
    • concludes with reflections on the query “What is it I need to do in order to fulfill the requirements of my intentions, and what is my next step to getting there?”

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HOW CAN I FIND MY SOUL’S PURPOSE?

I lived with this question for years, though I didn’t realize I was asking it. Later, in my studies of transformational tools and principles, I was told that “Something unique wants to express itself through you; something that only you can give birth to.” I thought this was, at best, a nice sentiment. It was very egalitarian, leaving no one out and making everyone special. But I had also heard the phrase often enough, expressed somewhat less loftily: You are special. There is no one like you. By the time I heard it again, I was already seriously inured to it and perhaps even somewhat cynical. Of course, we’re unique; who isn’t? And that’s where, for me, the whole concept of personal uniqueness distilled into something without much meaning.

For quite a while, I succumbed to the enervating idea that uniqueness, in and of itself, isn’t unique. Since we are all uniquely distinguished from each other, what’s the big deal? You’re tall; I’m short. You’re muscular; I lack definition. You have red hair; I have black hair. Your eyes are green, and mine are brown. You excel at tennis, but I can sing. You’re great at math, and I write more clearly than you. What’s to get excited about? Now, if you’re handy, I’m feeling a bit of excitement. But I digress.

At some point, it occurred to me that I had been looking in the wrong direction, clinging to the wrong idea, and being stubbornly myopic. I decided to challenge my habitual perception of uniqueness by shifting my stance that uniqueness is a common attribute with no benefits. Breaking from my earlier jadedness, I asked: What exactly makes each of us unique? In no time, a realization asserted itself with incontrovertible clarity: It is our soul’s longing and the agenda contained in that longing that lead us to our purpose. Our specific longings show us the paths we need to take and who we can become. So what makes us unique? What makes us who we are?

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV. 4.5 tells us that our deep, driving desire is:

You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny.

Here is the beginning of discovering your soul’s purpose: identifying your deeper truths through your deepest desires. Our uniqueness and destiny lie in our desires and in what awakens our passion. When we act on these unique desires, we are compelled to seek what is right for us, which in turn nourishes us. Following true desires attracts what we need to become who we are meant to be. Ultimately, by honoring our soul’s longing, we express our purpose and find fulfillment.

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