dadsnook2000
Several weeks ago a discussion connected the question of "How to determine your life's purpose" with astrological charts and with the book series based on the Celestine Prophecy.
Within the Celestine Prophecy series (I not sure which book title now since I cleaned out my library and tossed some 300-plus books out) was a statement that our individual life's purpose was based upon our parent's life purpose -- we were to combine those two goals in some unique way to achieve our own unique and valuable purpose. This statement suggests a sort of spiritual and physical heredity. Can this be seen in our astrological chart?
There was a lot of encouragement to pursue this subject, so I am launching this thread without having first done my own review of my parent's lives and a related study of my chart. To the extent that the Celestine Prophecy statement is valid, and based on our own views, memories and self-honesty, we can jointly explore this topic. I am suggesting the following process:
FIRST; we need to look back upon our parent's lives (now living or deceased) and look for an overall theme. The themes can be simple or complex and might include, for example -- 1) a belief that hard work was the answer to all problems, 2) communication was the only way to show care and love for someone, 3) it was always better to avoid an argument and go along with someone else's idea than to dissent or fight, 4) that one had to give one's whole life to their children no matter the sacrifice, 5) belief in one's religion could be demonstrated on holidays -- or by volunteering to help in any number of community projects -- or by attending a church (etc.) every day -- or, etc., etc., 6) if your partner or co-worker treats you harshly then you act the same way in return, 7) that the gradual assimilation of material wealth demonstrates your own inherent goodness, 8) that you need to adopt a rigid social posture so that others won't intrude into your life with their problems -- the list can go on and on, and there are certainly others who can identify and explain life-style themes better than I.
The goal is to be able to identify a life-long or on-going pattern of belief and/or conduct as a central and defining theme for each parent. This should be done in a few sentances.
SECOND: You need to self-assess how those two parental themes contribute to your core personality, attitudes and core life-theme. Your life purpose will not likely combine all or most of each of your parent's life purpose and theme but will probably be shaped by their life as a reaction, as a valuable lesson, as a by-product. You should try to distill this into a few sentances.
THIRD: Applying "key word" descriptions or adjectives to your self-assessed life purpose, examine your chart for a major pattern of aspects or sign/house placements, or other significant pattern. Look for a validation of your life's purpose (as based on your review) within the chart.
THE PROCESS: In order to carry out this multi-stage thread, we might end up with a very long thread as we each post a review of what our parents were like, how we see our life purpose (as based on theirs), and how we interpret our astrological chart relative to the life purpose. There will be replies and questions by others. SOOOO -- I think we might each have to have a seperate thread for ourselves.
In other words the Thread Title might be . . .
"Your Life's Purpose -- Dadsnook2000" or . . .
"Your Life's Purpose -- Minderwiz" as another example.
If you are interested in pursuing this thread you can post questions and views here as well as do your own review and start another thread in this series with your screen-name. I will start, and will post, the first of several reviews and observations shortly as a lead-off example. Good luck, have fun, be gentle in your comments about others. Dave.
Within the Celestine Prophecy series (I not sure which book title now since I cleaned out my library and tossed some 300-plus books out) was a statement that our individual life's purpose was based upon our parent's life purpose -- we were to combine those two goals in some unique way to achieve our own unique and valuable purpose. This statement suggests a sort of spiritual and physical heredity. Can this be seen in our astrological chart?
There was a lot of encouragement to pursue this subject, so I am launching this thread without having first done my own review of my parent's lives and a related study of my chart. To the extent that the Celestine Prophecy statement is valid, and based on our own views, memories and self-honesty, we can jointly explore this topic. I am suggesting the following process:
FIRST; we need to look back upon our parent's lives (now living or deceased) and look for an overall theme. The themes can be simple or complex and might include, for example -- 1) a belief that hard work was the answer to all problems, 2) communication was the only way to show care and love for someone, 3) it was always better to avoid an argument and go along with someone else's idea than to dissent or fight, 4) that one had to give one's whole life to their children no matter the sacrifice, 5) belief in one's religion could be demonstrated on holidays -- or by volunteering to help in any number of community projects -- or by attending a church (etc.) every day -- or, etc., etc., 6) if your partner or co-worker treats you harshly then you act the same way in return, 7) that the gradual assimilation of material wealth demonstrates your own inherent goodness, 8) that you need to adopt a rigid social posture so that others won't intrude into your life with their problems -- the list can go on and on, and there are certainly others who can identify and explain life-style themes better than I.
The goal is to be able to identify a life-long or on-going pattern of belief and/or conduct as a central and defining theme for each parent. This should be done in a few sentances.
SECOND: You need to self-assess how those two parental themes contribute to your core personality, attitudes and core life-theme. Your life purpose will not likely combine all or most of each of your parent's life purpose and theme but will probably be shaped by their life as a reaction, as a valuable lesson, as a by-product. You should try to distill this into a few sentances.
THIRD: Applying "key word" descriptions or adjectives to your self-assessed life purpose, examine your chart for a major pattern of aspects or sign/house placements, or other significant pattern. Look for a validation of your life's purpose (as based on your review) within the chart.
THE PROCESS: In order to carry out this multi-stage thread, we might end up with a very long thread as we each post a review of what our parents were like, how we see our life purpose (as based on theirs), and how we interpret our astrological chart relative to the life purpose. There will be replies and questions by others. SOOOO -- I think we might each have to have a seperate thread for ourselves.
In other words the Thread Title might be . . .
"Your Life's Purpose -- Dadsnook2000" or . . .
"Your Life's Purpose -- Minderwiz" as another example.
If you are interested in pursuing this thread you can post questions and views here as well as do your own review and start another thread in this series with your screen-name. I will start, and will post, the first of several reviews and observations shortly as a lead-off example. Good luck, have fun, be gentle in your comments about others. Dave.
