Fate, Free Will and Your Purpose

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As a tarot reader, I regularly get asked by clients what their purpose in life is. Spirit or Source may reveal this through the cards in a fairly straightforward manner, however, more often than not, there’s a larger understanding that Source wants you to understand behind your purpose.  This is because Source always factors in your soul’s evolution, including what you signed up to learn and experience in this lifetime.

Important to note is that your purpose and the way you earn your livelihood may be totally different.  Your purpose on this earth may be several, such as learning how to set healthy boundaries in a relationship, practicing self-forgiveness and being more courageous or it could simply be just one, such as unlocking the secrets to longevity. Your career may be one of many ways that your purpose in this life unfolds.

According to several NDE sources[1], prior to your reincarnation into this earthly life, you mapped out several key (“fated”) moments that would help propel you forward in achieving the objectives that you had set for yourself. Let’s say your purpose in this incarnation is to discover the formula for longevity.  Your trajectory to achieving this may not be linear.  For example, you may start off as a body builder or an athlete, but later in your life, you become a scientist which leads you to your discovery. Different trajectories may lead you to your purpose. Nevertheless, let’s presume that you got distracted along the way, losing sight of your goal and Source, through various human agents and “coincidences” attempt to course correct you. It could start with a simple prompt through a conversation, where people tell you that you possess a scientific mind. You may dismiss this and then the second prompt you pre-programmed happens, this one a little bit more insistent than the one before, where you twist your ankle, which requires you to recuperate for great length of time and you end up reading and through this you fall in love with learning everything you could about genetics and this becomes your deterministic factor that leads you to being a geneticist, which leads you to identifying a key to longevity. One fascinating story that comes to mind is that of Frida Kahlo, who due to a bus accident, became a world-renowned painter.

Then again, your trajectory to your purpose may have nothing to do with your field of work. You could be a kindergarten teacher, raised a family, been an active part of your community and was health conscious, enjoying the outdoors, being sporty and eating healthy because you followed the prompts of your inner wisdom and this in itself revealed to you the keys to longevity and you lived to 110. You became a living breathing example of a fulfilled purpose. Again, you may have planted some cues along the way or little pushes to keep you going in the direction you came here to learn about. Those little hints or sometimes pushes from the universe are still choices. They are fated in the sense that you planted them there as wayfinders, but you can still ignore them, as that is where your free will comes in. It’s like having a little toothache that you choose to ignore by chewing on the other side of your mouth, eventually though the pain gets more intense, and you have to reevaluate how and if you wish to resolve it. If you keep ignoring it, the pain gets worse until it resolves itself and that may not be exactly as you hoped for (i.e. losing a tooth or worse). On the other hand, at the first sign of a toothache, you note it and then after a few more moments of unease you call a dentist, thus saving your tooth and preventing further suffering.

In summary, your purpose in life may be to learn one thing or several. The way you get there may largely be determined by free will, but you will be greeted with fate-like interventions along the way to get you back on track again as you intended.

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[1] Life After Life, Raymond A. Moody Jr. , After, Dr. Bruce Greyson and Your Soul’s Plan, Robert Schwartz