Even though numerology, like most of the esoteric arts and sciences is useful in divining our blueprint for life, we often lose track of the fact that we, humans in a physical body actually have to walk the path set out before us…this is a fundamental task.
Of course, since free will reigns in this dimension, unless we are being coerced by other humans, we don’t have to pay attention to the soul’s instructions writ at our birth. Like children growing to believe their own fibs, we discount what we know is real in favor of what we want. We can assume different identities, hide from our truths altogether and turn a blind eye toward our best and highest good. We avoid difficulty for the short-term pleasures of no pain....but there's a price: no gain.
What are the results of this wrong headed strategy? Intuitively, we know that not paying attention to that little voice inside our heads and hearts has consequences…
Ignoring our destiny delays our progress forward, delays our growth, short circuits our power and ruins our opportunities in the long term to fulfill our destinies. We experience frustration, anger, fear, grief, and depression without end because we refuse to use what life has presented us with.
How to weather hard times
Career coach Marty Nemko touched on this in his article “Toward a Well-Lived Life”.
Speaking to his father, a holocaust survivor, Nemko comments on how his Dad never seemed bitter about this most terrible of experiences. His father’s reply is a window into how to manage a dreadful time:
“The Nazis took five years of my life. I won’t give them one minute more. Never look back. Always look forward.”
In an oft-quoted passage in J.R.R. Tolken’s Lord of the Ring series, when Frodo bemoans his fate as the custodian of the ring, Gandolf the wizard replies with a nod to all who live through a harrowing age and fervently wish it were not their reality:
"So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide, all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
Moreover there are schools of thought that endorse the idea that stuff has to get really bad before it CAN get better. According to recent studies done in the UK, epic bad times can routinely lead to epic leaps forward in social structure and civilization. While all things that come out of bad times are not as a rule catagorized as good, overall, our weathering of bad times leaves us changed, albeit painfully, and those same changes ironically serve as the foundation for a maturity born of those difficult experiences.
So the next time you are besieged with setbacks...realize you are possed of much unaccessed potential to help you through life's trials of fire.
