The 4 Destiny
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...the life-long path of BREAKTHROUGH
"If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
Michael Jordan
The 4
destiny means that you will spend this lifetime learning
about your identity, or purpose, in this
world. The work you do is likely to play a
major role. This is the destiny of great
accomplishment through hard work, patient attention to
detail, and belief in yourself.
The 4
personality cannot stand disorder or uncertainty and,
because nothing in life is certain, 4s often become
frustrated by issues that other people find
trivial. Until you learn to accept life's
harsher realities both mentally and emotionally, feelings
of restriction or loneliness are bound to arise.
The 4
destiny creates events and circumstances which enable you
to learn craftsmanship, practicality, industriousness,
self-discipline, and leadership. Throughout your life,
you will experience people and situations that will teach
you the value of effort, tenacity, simplicity, and
reliability. This can be a path of great reward and
inspiration - or - it can be one of limitation and
narrow-mindedness. It all depends on what you
believe is available to you. So, let me tell you
what really is available to you on the 4 destiny path:
When you
accept the gifts that 4 offers, you will experience a
wonderful feeling that everything is "clicking"
and coming together exactly as it should be; a feeling
that everything is in the right place, and that your
timing is right on target. It is a feeling that
although obstacles are bound to occur, you will be able
to deal with them effectively and, often, turn them to
your advantage. It is a feeling that there is no
challenge you cannot handle, even though you do not seek
out these challenges. It is a feeling of confidence
that very few others are able to achieve. It is the
knowing that you are doing the right thing at the right
time, that you are on the right road, and headed in the
right direction. It is the feeling of succeeding in
the material world while, at the same time, achieving
great inner satisfaction from what you are doing.
It is the feeling you get just before the success is
apparent. In short, the 4 destiny offers to
replace insecurity with self-assuredness.
Love is
inevitable because you will learn to dispense with the
limitations of guilt that many others place on
relationships. When you are confident about your
ability to love, you need not worry about hurting
others. Neither will you allow others to hurt
you. Not only does this describe the positive
vibrations of the 4 energy, but it also describes the
feeling of Free Will which is your real destination in
this life time. Love is only love when it is free
to move as it desires.
Unfortunately,
very few 4s ever reach their extraordinary potential
because they are cynical about it. Either they do
not believe such a condition is possible, or they do not
believe it can be maintained for a significant length of
time. Well, it can be achieved, maintained, and
enhanced to even higher levels - master levels - once you
understand your own nature and recognize the choices
available to you. It is never too late or too early
to reach this understanding.
Some 4s
use age - too old, too young - as an excuse for not doing
what they want to do in life. In reality, the 4
destiny offers the opportunity for agelessness, if only
you would allow yourself the experience of time standing
still; the way it does when you are doing something you
really love.
Yes, work,
is a major aspect of your life, but if you do not love
your work, then a huge chunk of love is missing from your
life. This does not mean that love cannot also come
from intimate relationships. But you will
find that when personal relationships inhibit your
ambitions, true happiness will be difficult to achieve in
either area. The problem is that 4 is the number of
logic and intellectual reasoning. Deep feelings are
often avoided within this energy and relationships are
often sought for the purpose of social and emotional
security. In fact, anything which does not appear
to have a "practical" purpose, is often
rejected from the world of a typical 4.
You may
think that yours is a difficult path indeed. But it
is you yourself who tends to make things difficult by
wanting to do things in what you believe is the
"proper" way. You also have a
tendency to make the work much harder than it needs to be
by obsessing over details. You may have to learn
that most problems can be solved easily and that, in many
cases, every single tiny detail does not have to be
scrutinized and analyzed. You must learn to
simplify - not magnify. Finding a balance here may
be difficult for you because of your natural tendency for
detail, system, and orderliness. But a balance must
be reached nonetheless.
Limitation,
and how you deal with it, is one of your most important
lessons. Limitation is not something that will simply go
away because it is what you are here to learn about and
overcome. How are you limited by your own physical
body? By your geographical location? By your
general environment? Your physical body?
Funds? Responsibilities? Gender?
Age? Qualifications? Beliefs?
Knowledge? Personal history?
Guilt? Fear?
Many
restrictions can be eliminated or avoided by analyzing
the apparent problem and changing your reaction to
it. To change one's point of view can seem
like hard work. But this "work" simply
means recognizing your stubbornness, opening your mind,
and accepting that alternatives do exist.. You will find
that many of your limitations are the result of your own
inflexible beliefs and attitudes. However, there
will be some limitations in your life which appear to be
immovable and unsolvable. These are the events and
circumstances that life has placed in your way so that
you can reach your so-called limits, and then expand them
into broader horizons. We all have limits.
When we reach them, we feel stopped in our tracks, boxed
in, or even crushed under their weight. But, by expanding
your belief in your own capabilities, you will produce an
expanding energy which creates more space around
you. This pushes those limits up and out and away
from you so that they no longer pressurize you.
Yes, we
all have limits - and it is your very destiny to live
your life constantly reaching your limits and pushing
them further and further away from you through your
expanded belief in yourself. It is impossible to
reach your limits and just "crash" through
them. This would be like banging your head against
a brick wall. You would be injured, killed or, at
the very least, embarrassed. Accepting your
capabilities and then using them is the key here. Then,
your capabilities cannot help but expand too. If you deny
the existence of a problem, the solution can never be
found. Be honest with yourself about this.
Whatever you come up against, ask yourself: "What
can I learn from this situation?" "How do
I want this to turn out?" Analyze your various
limitations so that options become apparent to you.
Visualize the outcome you want, and take the actions that
will draw it to you. With effort, not struggle, you will
experience the elation of BREAKTHROUGH. This will result
in a life that is much happier, "lighter",
easier, healthier, more loving, and successful.
One of
your natural talents is that you are very practical, even
though the word "practical" means different
things to different people. You are very capable
of managing, and organizing. You can amaze
people by taking what they see as chaos, and turning it
into order, priority, and logic. You are a born
organizer. You are able, and usually willing, to
work long and hard. You have a great deal of patience
with detail. You seem to prefer working with
difficult problems rather than simpler ones. You
are a reliable and conscientious worker whose efforts
ensure that the work-at-hand is finished -
perfectly.
But do try
to keep an open mind. Your way of doing things is
not, necessarily, the only way. Doing things the
"proper" way has a definite place in your life,
particularly where craftsmanship is involved, but unless
this attitude is kept in perspective, it can also produce
emotional, physical, and social problems.
You may
have a tendency to criticize those whose lifestyles are
different to your own. This can lead to alienation
from the very people from whom you have the most to learn
and enjoy. It may be difficult for you to tolerate
certain people and, yet, if you look closely at other
aspects of their lives, you may notice where they are
more "together" than you. There is a good
chance that they have something to teach you.
Socially, you may focus your disapproving eye on one
petty detail of someone else, and fail to see the true
value of the individual. Your frustration with
others can sometimes turn into dominance or
bossiness. You must learn to accept others, as they
are, and know that you are free to stay or walk
away. Open your mind to life's natural
diversity. Resist the urge to "tidy" everything
up. The fact that you are a natural problem-solver
sometimes causes you to look for problems which, to
others, are no problem at all.
You have a
serious approach to most things, even though the other
energies in your life may soften this tendency to some
extent. You have a fixed or dogmatic approach to
most matters, which can range from great courage and
fortitude, to extreme pettiness and
obstinacy. Even if you believe you are living
a life that is foot-loose and fancy-free, even if you
believe you have a wonderful sense of humor, or that you
exude creativity, there is a certain rigidity in your
beliefs which is caused by your profound desire for a
specific identity.
You may
need to develop a lighter approach to who and what you
are and the image you want to portray. Your
identity is not measured by the work that you do.
This may be difficult to fathom, since work is a major
aspect of your very destiny. But work does not only
pertain to what you do for a living. Your life's
work - your destiny - is a matter of living in a state of
freedom which enables you to do something you love.
You have to work. Therefore, it is logical to
work at something you truly enjoy.
Sometimes,
you may find yourself going in the opposite direction of
your desires by becoming disorganized, lazy,
irresponsible, out of time, out of place, resenting
others, and with no sense of accountability or
compassion. This is guilt disguising itself as
blame. When these negatives arise, it is
difficult to see that it is you, yourself, who is causing
the problems. Your identity, therefore, is not a
matter of what you do for a living, but of living the
life you want to live. Remember that living a life
that is organized includes making time for love,
tenderness, enjoyment, creativity, social activity,
relaxation, and plain old fun. There must be a healthy
balance between work and play, seriousness and lightness
etc.
Not only
does your life emphasize work, but you also possess a
deep curiosity for how things work. 4s are so often
known for their love of gadgets, mechanical devices,
psychology, medicine, physics, and metaphysics. In
this regard, you must not allow your tendency to always
do things the "proper" way to confine you to
old understandings which have since been expanded
upon. You admire and respect experts, but you must
realize that experts can only remain experts by striving
to increase their knowledge.
So what is
the purpose of a destiny that is so filled with
limitations? By treating your limitations as
challenges and not immovable barriers; to be constantly
aware of your limits so that you can expand them; by
finding the opportunities that are always hidden within
those limitations; its purpose - your purpose - is to
learn how to live in a state of freedom from limitations.
The end result? Love, free Will, happiness,
recognition, and great accomplishment.
Freedom
from limitation means having the intelligence and courage
to realize that life is full of limitations, and that by
doing whatever has to be done to deal with them, many can
be eliminated. This requires effort and
determination. But it also requires balance.
This means knowing when to take a break so that your
energies can be replenished and your life can actually be
enjoyed. 4s can be relentless workaholics who do
not understand that, from time to time, they are supposed
to stop, relax, luxuriate, and actually savor the
fruits of their work.
Accept
that you have limitless potential and you can achieve the
most significant material and spiritual goals.
Become a master of the 4 path by combining your highest
ideals with the enormous power that 4 gives you. It
is not enough to merely dream about large-scale
accomplishments. You have what it takes to make
your dreams a reality. 4 is the number of the
ARCHITECT and BUILDER. Your dreams will be
constructed, one piece at a time, through uncommon
vision, well laid plans, and the passion to see those
plans through to a satisfying conclusion. You have
the potential to inspire and change the world with your
constructiveness - or - create havoc with the abuse of
this power.
Your
destiny is one of greatness, and you will have to find a
way to overcome a massive obstacle that stands in your
way. This obstacle is the inferiority complex that
tells you that greatness is not part of your
destiny. Let go of this wrong judgment. Let
go of your cynicism. Believe in your vast
capabilities my dear 4. There s nothing you
cannot achieve if you give yourself the freedom to focus
on and put your heart into your deepest desires.
