What is Your Mindset?

To have mean­ing in life must one feel a pur­pose; to achieve pur­pose in life, one must have goals.

You can reverse this for­mula and state, “I must have a goal to achieve my pur­pose. With pur­pose, my life has meaning.”

So in order for your life to have mean­ing, you must estab­lish a goal. But there’s the rub. What is a goal?

Many ath­letes or per­form­ing artists had a dream to com­pete in the Olympics or per­form at Carnegie Hall. What hap­pens to the pur­pose of their life once they achieve this goal?

The real chal­lenge in iden­ti­fy­ing a goal is to deter­mine if the goal is fleet­ing or last­ing. Is it a goal last­ing even beyond this life­time. (Think about that!)

In Thought & the Glory of Think­ing, Torkom Saray­dar­ian wrote

A goal is a sensed pro­to­type. A pur­pose is the con­scious response to an Arche­type. Those who have goals and pur­pose in life are those who have found the Path. Those who do not … are still asleep. They need to be awak­ened not by force, but by cre­at­ing in them a sen­si­tiv­ity to the pull of the pro­to­type (p. 251)

Her­cules, for exam­ple, is a great Arche­type. He had to per­form his ninth labor dur­ing Sagit­tar­ius, which was to kill the thou­sands of man-eating birds who were attack­ing all the peo­ple in Arcadia.

He tried club­bing them, sym­bolic of the per­son­al­ity level, and failed.

He tried pierc­ing them with arrows on the ground, rep­re­sent­ing thoughts and emo­tions grounded in mat­ter, but they hid in the bushes.

Then Her­cules was inspired to use huge cym­bals to scare them and chase them from hid­ing. The sound was so loud and pen­e­trat­ing that the sharp-taloned and cruel birds exploded into the sky.

It was only then that Her­cules, upon his winged horse and in the air, could use his arrows to kill the birds.

The two cym­bals are the per­son­al­ity and the Inner Divin­ity. These two cym­bals must be brought into fusion so that sound exposes all hin­drances hid­ing within our nature and makes them vis­i­ble to our own eyes. All these hin­drances have been obscur­ing our Inner Sun for many ages.

Sym­phony of the Zodiac, Torkom Saray­dar­ian, p. 264.

The great­est dif­fi­culty for me and all of human­ity, I pro­pose, is find­ing a goal and then find­ing a higher goal.

This is why at the time of the Sagit­tar­ius full moon (Decem­ber 2, 2009 — 7:32 a.m. GMT) ), there’s oppor­tu­nity to receive the ener­gies pour­ing down which in turn stim­u­lates your desire to reach your goal.

The keynote in Sagit­tar­ius is

I see the goal. I reach the goal and see another.

A goal is a mag­netic cen­ter estab­lished in the domain of the future. It is this mag­netic cen­ter which pulls a per­son up and estab­lishes a direc­tion for him. It is the mag­netic pull of the goal that enables a per­son to step for­ward on the path of his evo­lu­tion and take ini­ti­a­tion. The first ini­ti­a­tion is the moment when a per­son takes a step in the right direction.

Ibid., p. 267

Sun in Sagit­tar­ius: Novem­ber 23/24 — Decem­ber 21/22

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