Karmic tail 21-10-16: Priest

In this life

From childhood, the person shows wisdom ahead of their age and grasps realities that escape many, down to the heart of each phenomenon. Over the course of life they receive a large body of knowledge and must remain receptive to novelty. Their professional field may be any at all, but it will necessarily touch on the knowledge they gather and are charged with passing on; their talent may even be technical. It matters, however, not to yield everything to the rational and to technical logic, despite pressure from those around them. According to the method, giving up their mission and their deeper nature makes life heavy: the feeling of living someone else’s existence sets in, with a dull languor, and health troubles may appear with no visible cause. Conversely, following your own road from youth, listening to your desires and feelings, lets you go far. Their abilities serve to awaken the spirituality of others and to influence a wide audience. A conventional career remains possible, but the essential plays out in the secrecy of the soul.

The lesson

According to the method, it is essential to become clearly aware of your mission and of the reach of the spiritual knowledge you carry. The influence exerted on others is strong, enough to bring them along. The priority is therefore to know who you are in this life and to move forward on your own path. The recommendation is to travel a great deal, to draw on varied sources of knowledge, even surprising ones, and to pass on what you learn where it will be most useful.

But doubt, fear of being wrong, and a way of thinking different from others hold them back, which leads to destructive consequences.

The signals

• Urge to live on the margins of society
• Distrust of the world
• Feeling different without knowing what to do with it
• Doubt about yourself and your knowledge
• Psychological difficulties
• Not enough strength to act decisively
• Withdrawal, rejection by society
• Injuries, accidents, unexpected health troubles
• Poorly controlled emotions
• Loss of faith in crises
• Search for calm and bliss at the expense of your growth
• Thirst to learn with no drive to pass on
• Financial crises, difficult credit
• Imbalance between matter and spirit
• Novelty experienced as a threat
• Refusal of the world as it is
• Lack of an inner backbone, search for support
• Harmful habits, dependencies
• Refusal to understand yourself
• Self-destruction, endless self-reproach
• Deliberate harm to your own body
• Panic in the face of change
• Fear of responsibilities
• Fear of speaking in public
• Judging others, rejecting other beliefs, norms, and systems
• Excessive materialism, hardened heart
• Cruelty, hidden or visible aggression
• Refuge in an imaginary world

Knowing the influence you have, you take the time to define yourself and you choose your own path rather than the one others lay out. You travel whenever possible and go looking for knowledge in very varied sources, including unexpected ones. Then you pass it on where it will be most useful. If thoughts of harming yourself arise, it is important to talk about it quickly with someone close or to call one of the crisis lines listed on this page.

The steps

• Write in a few lines the mission you recognize in yourself
• Distinguish what belongs to you and what comes from others
• Plan a learning trip each year
• Explore an unusual source of knowledge each month
• Choose a place to pass on what you know and begin