dadsnook2000
This thread will offer my thoughts on trying to identify my life's purpose based on the outline given in the thread YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE. Briefly, I had outlined a process that 1) looked at the parent's struggle and manner of living and achieving their goals, 2) looking at how I blended their life's purposes and took from it to define my own purpose and goals, and 3) how the astrological chart reflects and/or clarifies this.
My parent's approached and transitioned into adulthood during the period of the Great Depression. This economic environment affected almost everyone in the US and in many other areas in so many critical ways. To a large degree, the depression became a key factor in those generation's life purposes, forming a backdrop which sharpened their character and their faults and made it more difficult to achieve goals.
MY FATHER was abandoned by his parents when he was about 8 or 9 years of age. He completed grade school but went to work before reaching his teen years. Like many others he worked at many different jobs in order to just survive. He met and married my mother who came from a middle-class family -- an extended family that managed to support each other. Most were able to have work through those lean years. My thoughts seem to focus on the fact that my father valued that supportive family concept greatly (not having had it himself). He worked very hard and for many long hours each week to have his own home and car and to provide for four children. He tried every form of work, started and ran several small businesses. He died when I was 18 from being poisoned by a metal-cutting process that he was developing for the business that he was running.
His life purpose appears to have been to develop and value a supportive family life that he was denied as a child and to make every creative effort through work and community activity to provide for that family. He would literally try anything to succeed.
MY MOTHER had traditional working class values and was always very supportive of my father. I think the women of those times were given to letting the man set the direction of their lives. She was very patient, worked hard at home helping him to actually build houses, garden, and teach us children how to read. I was able to read adult level books and magazines before reaching first grade in school. Looking back, she appeared to be highly supportive, quietly encouraging, and very self-sacrificing -- traits that I'm sure many of us will abscribe to their own mothers.
Her life purpose appears to have been to be the supportive partner during the early years and then the complete provider for the family in the latter years following my father's death. She was very enterprising in terms of using her resources, running several small businesses of her own. I remember her best in terms of always being quietly supportive, very encouraging, and always promulgating the values that my father had practiced.
It appeared that she was the 2nd phase of a marriage that had a single common goal of raising a family based on effort, persistance and support.
I'll look at my life's purpose and the astrological chart in another posting. Dave.
My parent's approached and transitioned into adulthood during the period of the Great Depression. This economic environment affected almost everyone in the US and in many other areas in so many critical ways. To a large degree, the depression became a key factor in those generation's life purposes, forming a backdrop which sharpened their character and their faults and made it more difficult to achieve goals.
MY FATHER was abandoned by his parents when he was about 8 or 9 years of age. He completed grade school but went to work before reaching his teen years. Like many others he worked at many different jobs in order to just survive. He met and married my mother who came from a middle-class family -- an extended family that managed to support each other. Most were able to have work through those lean years. My thoughts seem to focus on the fact that my father valued that supportive family concept greatly (not having had it himself). He worked very hard and for many long hours each week to have his own home and car and to provide for four children. He tried every form of work, started and ran several small businesses. He died when I was 18 from being poisoned by a metal-cutting process that he was developing for the business that he was running.
His life purpose appears to have been to develop and value a supportive family life that he was denied as a child and to make every creative effort through work and community activity to provide for that family. He would literally try anything to succeed.
MY MOTHER had traditional working class values and was always very supportive of my father. I think the women of those times were given to letting the man set the direction of their lives. She was very patient, worked hard at home helping him to actually build houses, garden, and teach us children how to read. I was able to read adult level books and magazines before reaching first grade in school. Looking back, she appeared to be highly supportive, quietly encouraging, and very self-sacrificing -- traits that I'm sure many of us will abscribe to their own mothers.
Her life purpose appears to have been to be the supportive partner during the early years and then the complete provider for the family in the latter years following my father's death. She was very enterprising in terms of using her resources, running several small businesses of her own. I remember her best in terms of always being quietly supportive, very encouraging, and always promulgating the values that my father had practiced.
It appeared that she was the 2nd phase of a marriage that had a single common goal of raising a family based on effort, persistance and support.
I'll look at my life's purpose and the astrological chart in another posting. Dave.
