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Life Purpose can seem elusive when we are struggling to pay the bills and just get through the day - but we each have an innate Life Purpose from birth.Table of Contents
How Can I Discover My Life Purpose?
What is the purpose of life? Why can’t we just look up our Soul Purpose and Life Purpose on a list?
Then it would just be a matter of getting on with it. This would be a lot easier than trying to find purpose in life through trial and error.
I sometimes joke with my clients about that, but the truth is more nuanced and beautiful than that.
We are Souls who have chosen this particular lifetime to incarnate. There are many layers to why and how we’ve done so.
At the Soul Level, We Chose Our Life Purpose as a Theme
Before incarnating, we meet with our Soul Council to design the broad outline of our journey. Together, we consider:
- What life lessons or Themes are ready to be explored or resolved this time around?
- What karma is my Soul ready to clear?
- What other Souls will play a part in the karmic life situations I encounter?
- How can this life best express who I truly am at the Soul level?
Think of your current lifetime as a movable feast that your Soul selected. It’s flavored by the energy and intention of the Life Purpose you chose.
A big part of that intention is to work through karma. Encountering our stuckness is intended to help us deepen our awareness through the expression of our Life Purpose.
So, think Soul Purpose – a characteristic of the eternal Soul, Life Purpose – a theme for this particular life.
When We Incarnate, We Print Our “Ticket”
What ticket did you choose on the Incarnation Bus?
About three months before birth, roughly 88 days of solar arc, our Soul begins to attach to an embryo.
At that moment, we receive an electromagnetic imprint of how we will act, feel, and express ourselves in this lifetime. This imprint is influenced by both planetary and genetic factors.
Then, on the day we are born, a second imprint is created — one that shapes our conscious personality.
The first imprint relates to our subconscious mind, while the second relates to our conscious awareness.
Together, they create the energetic pattern that fills every cell and forms the aura that surrounds us, known as Human Design. It’s an Aquarian measurement system I’ve been studying with a mentor for the past six months.
What Is An Example of Life Purpose Through Human Design?
My Life Purpose is that of Eden. I am here to remember where we all came from (the Garden of Creation); to shine my light of Eden that way. This is so that other people remember by seeing the light, too.
In the Human Design system, there are also 4 quadrants we can be born into. So my Life Purpose of Eden is in Quadrant 2, Civilization. This is about establishing better communications between people and helping people to cooperate!
So everyone has a Life Purpose based on their birth data, and a Quadrant of influence.
As to how I go about my Life Purpose, that is totally up to me. None of us comes with an instruction book!
I get to choose how I dig into my Life Purpose. Whether I even want to live out my Life Purpose is also up to me. That’s free will in its purest form.
But doing so – however I choose to do it – will give me a lot of fulfillment. This is because my Life Purpose is part of my Human Design. Part of my Soul’s intentions are to live out my Life Purpose through my Design.
As I do so, I will also encounter my Shadows.
“So Now I Know My Life Purpose — I Can Just Go and Do It, Right?”
Yes… and no.
Knowing your Life Purpose gives you incredible clarity. It’s also true that most of us come to Earth to clear karma, learn specific lessons, and grow in awareness.
Sometimes, these lessons can feel like obstacles in the way of our Life Purpose. They are intended to be a part of the path itself, not an obstacle. Yet, often, that’s how we perceive them.
When we finally discover our Life Purpose, something within us resonates deeply. It feels true, as though all the puzzle pieces suddenly click into place.
You might realize that a long-shelved dream still calls to you. Perhaps certain aspects of your work or relationships already express parts of your Purpose, and you recognize them.
If you’ve drifted off track, discovering your Life Purpose may call you to make changes. Perhaps you’ll shift your work, your mindset, or even your relationships. You can choose to align more fully with who you came here to be.
You get to choose how to do it, and even if you want to live your Life Purpose.
How to Find Purpose in Life
Living your Life Purpose is one of the greatest journeys your Soul will ever take.
When I learned my Life Purpose, I discovered that I’d been heading toward it for years without even realizing it. That recognition was deeply validating.
Even so, I’m still aligning more fully with it every day.
Sometimes we’re born with an intuitive awareness of our purpose. Yet family or societal pressures can pull us away from it.
The Alchemist Was Thrown Off Track From His Life Purpose
Paulo Coelho, the beloved spiritual author of The Alchemist, was once committed to a mental institution by his parents. The reason? Simply because he wanted to be a writer.
He was born in Brazil during a time of dictatorship, when individuality was often suppressed. His father wanted him to become an engineer, but Paulo knew that path would never fulfill him.
Being a creative in that regime would be scary, and almost seem like ‘crazy’ behavior.
When we look at Paulo Coelho’s Human Design chart, we also see that he has an extraordinary number of active gates in his Throat Chakra.(In Human Design, the brown square represents the Throat Center, and the red circles indicate active Gates or characteristics.)
With so many active throat gates, Paulo was designed to express himself through the power of voice and word somehow.
Despite early resistance and being committed to a mental institution for a while, he followed his truth. His work has touched millions around the world.
The Alchemist alone continues to inspire people to discover and follow their own dreams.
Paulo Coelho’s Life Purpose – The Sleeping Phoenix
Now, Paulo could have chosen any route in expressing his Life Purpose. In this era, writing has been an empowering way for people to free their throats and speak their individual truths.
His Life Purpose of the Sleeping Phoenix is in the 3rd Quadrant of Duality. The 3rd Quadrant is about growth, improvement, and questioning everything.
Through the Sleeping Phoenix, Paulo is designed to ‘crash and burn’ through intimacy with others, especially in personal relationships. Yet, any form of intimacy and growth is his purpose as he transforms himself through experience.
Over time, Paulo persisted in his desire to actualize his conscious Life Purpose of being a writer. Many of his books explore all the ways life can be lived (Duality again), despite his initial struggles to be heard.
Many wonderful books have been the creative result.
Anyone with the Life Purpose of the Phoenix is always ‘rising from the ashes’.
Finding Your Own Life Purpose
Cultural influences and social conditioning can easily pull us away from our Soul’s path. These forces can feel strong, even overwhelming. But often, our Soul chose this very challenge as a catalyst for growth.
Do you feel drawn to discover your Life Purpose – or perhaps you already sense what it might be?
Would you like a free Human Design Chart to begin learning about your Life Purpose? Message me here.
My Own Human Design Journey
After working with my Divine Soul Blueprint, I learned how to align more fully with my gifts and Soul-level abilities.
Studying my Human Design chart added another layer of clarity. It helped me understand many of the strange and meaningful experiences I’ve had throughout my life.
Working with my Human Design mentor has opened a whole new lens for self-understanding. It’s helping me see how even my past choices fit perfectly into my unfolding design.
And that journey is still evolving.
My Life Purpose — Remembering Where I Came From
My own Life Purpose involves remembering where I’ve traveled from as a Soul, and helping others do the same.
It’s about embodying that remembrance, grounding it in daily life. Also, it’s about guiding others to rediscover the deeper truth of who they are beyond conditioning and beyond fear.
This helps dispel the human illusion of separation and takes us back to the garden of creation (Eden).
That, to me, is the heart of purpose. Yet your Life Purpose and Perspective will be uniquely connected to your Soul’s intentions and Human Design.
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[…] I wrote a post a while about Life Purposes and mentioned Paulo Coehlo, a famous writer who you may know as the author of the best-selling spiritual book called The Alchemist.I thought Paulo had plenty of throat gates open and active, but Gloria Gaynor has even more!Throat gates relate to 11 different energetic archetypes in human design, and gates in the Throat Chakra have unique energetics and feel, sensation or tone. […]