Ep. 490 - Facing Fate, Finding Destiny

Living Myth

Michael Meade

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Michael Meade explores how each soul born bears a personal story that involves natural gifts intended to be given and an original agreement of the soul that includes an inherent sense of purpose in life. At the same time, each family has fateful issues and inherited plotlines that strongly affect the dependent and defenseless child. The good news is that at each critical time in our lives, we have opportunities to awaken to the original agreement of our soul. The more difficult issue is that we must untangle ourselves from the limits of our family fate.

While all agreements and entanglements with our families can be made more conscious and can be renegotiated; the original agreements of our souls involve the threads of our destiny and are therefore non-negotiable. When the outside world becomes increasingly conflicted and chaotic, we are thrown back upon ourselves. If we are willing to face the fateful elements and early wounds of our life, we find the twist of fate that reveals the destiny that our souls were aimed at all along.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Living Myth podcast with Michael Mead, where this shifting, changing world is looked at from a mythic perspective.
0:20.0	In this episode, Mead explores how each soul born bears a personal story that involves natural
0:27.6	gifts intended to be given and an original agreement of the soul that includes an inherent sense
0:33.6	of purpose in life. At the same time, each family has fateful issues and inherited plot lines that strongly affect
0:42.3	the dependent and defenseless child.
0:45.3	The good news is that at each critical time in our lives, we have opportunities to awaken
0:51.3	to the original agreement of our soul.
0:54.5	The more difficult issue is that we must untangle ourselves from the limits of our family fate.
1:01.3	If we are willing to face the fateful elements and early wounds of our life, we find the
1:06.6	twist of fate that reveals the destiny that our souls were aimed at all along.
1:25.5	I want to begin with a little story. It comes from Africa, and it appears in a few places. In Africa,
1:31.3	it's a very small story. I found it in an old out-of-print book. But it's the most condensed way I've ever
1:38.1	seen the journey of the soul described. And so it begins with the world tree. The tree of life, it's often called, but
1:46.4	interesting enough, it's also the tree of death, because in being the tree of life, it has to
1:51.7	include everything, and death isn't the opposite of life. It's the companion of life. And so on the
1:57.8	tree of life, there are said to be souls that are waiting to enter the world.
2:03.0	And from the other world, on the branches of the tree of life, they're watching what's happening
2:07.8	in the common world that we're all struggling with right now. And then what happens is an individual
2:13.4	or specific soul sees something happening in the realm that we call reality, and it wants to move
2:20.0	towards that. And as soon as it begins to descend from the branch of the tree of life, that soul
2:25.6	in moving towards being born on earth is joined by a spirit. The spirit is often called the divine
2:32.8	twin. It's like the companion of that soul that's moving,
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