© 2003 by George A. Boyd
Destiny includes those factors of the unconscious that you do not control
that operate to shape the issues of your life. This karmic template is
handed down to you at the time of your birth and includes the blessings
and adversities of your fate. Some of these factors are shown below, separated
by the band of their activity:
Band |
Destiny Factors |
Physical |
Genetic constitutional conditions, chronic health issues. |
Etheric |
Energy reservoir, needs for sleep, appetite, strength of habits,
sexual predisposition (heterosexual, homosexual, autoerotic, etc.). |
Emotional |
Predestined relationships: parents, siblings, reunion with friends
or loved ones, spouse; baseline ability to cope with stress or adversity;
predisposition to mental illness. |
Mental |
Intelligence factors, ability to remember and learn, genius, retardation. |
Volitional |
Control of patterns of behavior, addiction, obsession. |
Self |
Introversion/extroversion, ability to actualize dreams and desires,
ability to obtain loving relationships, marriage, children, wealth,
career success, fame, wisdom. |
Spirit |
Affiliation with a particular spiritual path or religious group,
initiation by a spiritual Master, strong attraction and fascination
with a certain religious or spiritual group. |
Some traits of destiny are shaped by the body into which you incarnate.
Some arise because of the particular family and neighborhood in which
you are born. Other traits come from the re-emergence of issues from former
lives. Some are based on the level of your spiritual and vehicular development
from former lifetimes, which bring to you innate gifts and abilities;
wisdom, judgment and discernment of opportunities; and virtues and vices.
Destiny can be read in the left front quadrant of the causal body, in
the throat center of the spiritual body. It appears as a form within,
with karmic accretions at the following centers, shown on the table below:
Center |
Factors |
Feet |
physical/genetic |
Perineum/sex organs |
etheric factors |
Solar plexus |
emotional factors |
Heart |
mental factors |
Forehead |
volitional factors |
Left hand, right arm, front left side of the neck |
self factors |
Right hand, right arm, rear right side of the neck |
spirit factors |
These predestined factors may be partially captured in structured intuitive
readings like palmistry and astrology, but are subject to wide variations
in the interpretive ability of the psychic readers. You may directly read
destiny factors for yourself if you can access your causal body at one
of its octaves.
Some people castigate themselves unmercifully or think poorly of themselves
because they cannot control those factors. It is important to recognize
in what ways destiny is working in you and focus your efforts in those
areas in which you have liberty and work to capitalize upon your strengths.
Trying to change factors over which you have no control is both a waste
of time and effort and is essentially an exercise in futility. In recognizing
that an aspect of your nature has been predestined, it is best to accept
it and learn to live with it.
Destiny has three modes:
1. One-time events these include accidents (retribution
for deeds in past lives), one-time meeting with a loved one or spiritual
leader, time of your birth, time of your death.
2. Episodic events these are working through relationship
issues with relatives, friends, spouses and spiritual teachers; working
out emotional illness, phobia or addiction. Episodic events begin
with your first encounter with a person or a tendency within yourself,
have a distinct time or operation and then complete. An example is
a person coming into your life, having a relationship with him/her
over a period of time, then ending your relationship through involuntary
separation. Another example is the overcoming of an addiction to alcohol
or drugs.
3. Chronic events these are genetic or constitutional
factors that operate throughout your lifetime, or are behavioral or
emotional patterns that you are never able to change. These can be
conditions like cystic fibrosis that you have to cope with your entire
life; or chronic conditions like diabetes that have an onset, then
continue for the rest of your life. Another example is chronic, lifelong
depression or schizophrenia.
Please note that destiny is not forever ineradicable: advances in science
and technology and in medical and psychological treatments can eradicate
some physical and emotional destiny factors that were, in other epochs
of history, predestined factors. Predestined factors of today, with future
advances, will not be destiny karma of tomorrow. Certain diseases, which
were in the past death sentences, are today completely curable.
Initiation by a spiritual teacher can mollify or even dissolve certain
destiny karmic factors. In rare instances, ones karmic life path
can be radically altered by great Initiates. For example, the transformation
of Mary Magdalene, upon meeting Jesus, from a courtesan to a saint. Religious
conversion can activate new aspects of your nature and act to suppress
former tendencies operating in your life.
Many destiny factors are episodic. You work through them and they are
dissolved: they do not return. You overcome an addiction to smoking cigarettes
and it never returns.
It is important that you be clear about what makes up your destiny and
what doesnt. False assumptions that something is predestined may
hinder your progress in some aspect of your life. Try to move the boulder:
you may find that it will move despite your disbelief. Only when you are
sure that it cannot be moved, then go on and look for another door.
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