Episode 437 - On the Road of Fate and Destiny

Living Myth

Michael Meade

Transformation, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Genius, Education, Myth, Soul, Culture

4.9 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Michael Meade considers how finding and following the thread that connects our fate to our destiny ultimately involves a pilgrimage to the center of the Self where the dream of life speaks in mythical tones. Seen this way, fate and destiny form an essential arc of meaning that carries a person out into the world and back to the inner treasure of the human soul.

Fate and destiny are the two great agreements that shape the core issues we struggle with throughout our lives. Although the thread of fate implies limitations, it also ties each person to a destiny waiting to awaken. If a person doesn't face their fate, they may never find the deep resources and natural gifts they have inside. If a person doesn't risk living out their destiny, they'll never know who they were intended to be.

There may be no greater time than these troubled times for learning how to face our fate and open the paths of destiny that our souls would have us take and that were the aim of our lives from the beginning.

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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	On this episode, Mead considers how finding and following the thread that connects
0:26.6	our fate to our destiny ultimately involves a pilgrimage to the center of the self,
0:31.6	where the dream of life speaks in mythical tones.
0:34.6	Seen this way, fate and destiny form an essential arc of meaning that carries a person
0:42.1	out into the world and back to the inner treasure of the human soul.
0:47.3	There may be no greater time than these troubled times for learning how to face our fate
0:52.2	and open the paths of destiny that our souls would have us take
0:56.3	and that were the aim of our lives from the beginning.
1:00.0	Fate is an invisible thread woven through all the things of the world
1:18.0	and through all the events of time.
1:20.6	I'm picking up a very old idea here that faith is an eternal thread woven through everything.
1:25.9	We live in the world of time. To be born
1:29.0	is to leave the eternal world, which is on the other side, and to enter into the world of
1:33.4	measurement and time. And once we do that, we enter, we have a fate. We have limitations that we're
1:39.0	living amongst, and we have limitations in ourselves. Fate is a mysterious presence found in each life and in all serious undertakings.
1:49.0	Fate and the soul are woven of the same threads,
1:53.0	and fate includes the strange twist that makes each soul unique and each life unrepeatable.
2:00.0	And what I'm trying to say there, you know,
2:02.4	the twist of fate. The twist of fate is made by one of the three sisters of fate, Clotho,
2:08.9	and she takes the threat of one's life and gives it a twist. This is right before we're born.
2:14.4	And that twist is unique in each person so that if we don't live our
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