Esoteric Article: Destiny

How to Change your Destiny

"Since every soul has been uniquely created to become a special part of the Grand Man, everyone has a predetermined importance. A man may refuse it, foolishly, but it is heaven to accept and hell to refuse it."  (Essential Readings by Michael Stanley)

As a symbolic exercise, psychically move your sense-of-self onto a chair in the corner the room. Leave yourself there, and all the memories of who-you-are, while you read this article. The distance between separation from our sense-of-self, represents a veil, the false perspective of human nature.

Our ego’s sense of separateness, not only from others, but from our True Self, at first, is for our protection. The higher-aspect of ourselves is able to watch over our personality. Our True Self has always existed, and grows from the sense of separateness. By developing awareness we can cross over the false sensation of the veil of separateness. We can change our destiny, by running toward it, by learning to take on this watchful responsibility for ourselves.

“There is no predestined future. All are predestined to heaven, and none to hell.” — Swedenborg (D. P. 329).

In Esoteric Astrology we create our own reality. There is no separateness, or destined future, only cycles of likes and dislikes. We become what we dwell on. Today, is a product of how you thought in the past, whether yesterday or a year ago.

If today’s events are not what you desire, then you have to change how you think and react to these events today, in order to change your tomorrow. To do that, you have to rise above your personal fears and negative “mind chatter” that has contributed to the cause of these events.

Changing our destiny by taming our inner response by how we react, can only be done by a shift in perspective. A different perspective is by altering how we feel about something, including the strongest shift, of how we feel about ourselves. By changing how we feel about ourselves — first by being lovable to our self, changes all of our relationships with the outer world.

Negative thoughts and fears are layers of disagreement the personality uses to build its strong sense-of-self. Personality is built layer upon layer until a deep sense of separateness is established. This negative state of separateness is a necessary stage in our spiritual evolution. It contributes to our desire to relate to others on a deeper level, which leads to the formation of relationships. Since relationships are based on agreement, we eventually learn to compromise and reevaluate our beliefs.

This balancing back and forth weakens personality’s grip. The personality is exhausted from the compromise and reevaluation process; it still exists, but now there is a new awareness, a more detached perspective, not so identified with its own opinions.

Once this detached perspective is established, a shift begins to take place and a new relationship with our Inner Self is formed. This newly reestablished connection with our True Self can now be nurtured in equal proportion to our detachment to personality. The REAL WORK is to distinguish between personality and Self in all that we do.

The personality can now safely be encouraged and loved without the fear and selfishness taking over. Yes, duality still exists, but now understood and accepted as a useful illusion. Our mind chatter becomes less and intuition deepens, and we experience the present moment. “Living” teaches us to be spiritual. Astrology maps the course, and a good Esoteric Astrologer can offer techniques to speed up the process.