True Study and Life Task

Hi everyone,

I've been immersed in my book project and tonight I was thinking about my own chosen true studies and how they point in the direction of my life task quite succinctly!

Here's the list of mine:
1. Esoteric Studies including the Michael teachings and astrology
2. The study of History through Romance (think Wuthering Heights)
3. Weaponry
4. The study of Ritual, especially the Japanese Tea Ceremony.

Take a look at your own and see how they provide focus for your own Life Task. My particular life task has to do with personal power and next spring you will all see how these studies go together when my book is published!

Have fun!

Life as Art

Life has been your Art.

You have set yourself to Music,

Your days are your Sonnets.

-Oscar Wilde

What a beautiful reminder of how we create our lives every day. Consider all the ways we choose from what clothes to wear, what to eat, how to work and play, weaving together our daily lives.  Living an artful life sounds inspiring doesn't it?  But for those pragmatists out there can it really work? Yes indeed. It's all in the way you look at it.

Many of us tend to think that art has to be meaningful to be important or valid, that our simple choices and daily activities are not significant and thereby unimportant really in the larger scheme of things. But if you look at the totality of a persons life then it is all those small moments which together create the masterpiece! No action is unimportant, no choice less significant than another.

The photo I have chosen today is a piece by my son Brendan. He is living a creative life full of energy and promise whether it is at the Red Rock (www.redrockcoffee.org), writing and performing music, or creating Urban Art on a fish truck. Yes, I know, proud mom!  But also a sterling example of living the creative life which is possible for all of us. You need not be a professional artist to live an artful life.....

Question: How am I creating an artful life today?

photo Urban Art by Brendan McCarthy  San Francisco 

The Life Task Part One

“We would say that in the most simple terms the life task is the focus which your essence has chosen in a particular incarnation as one with the most pertinent impact in terms of soul evolution.”

“Once the 4th internal monad is complete,then true work on the life task can begin in earnest.”

Michael from a personal session with Victoria

Your Life Task is what you came here to accomplish in this lifetime and can be broad in scope with many possible ways through which to experience it, or more focused or narrow with more specific means through which to meet the goal you have chosen. Some examples of life tasks are "personal power", "world truths having to do with stability","determining what is real", "appreciation of the physical plane", "responsibility", "understanding tonality", "equality", "structures necessary for sustainability". These are a few examples and of course there are many more! The early part of our lives are dedicated to our family of origin, maturation, and foundation level life task work. The task itself however is not fully engaged until post 4th monad when the true personality emerges and until then, we may be learning the necessary skills to accomplish our task through education and life experiences. Once the monad in complete, then essence is more available to us and we can begin to focus on the task at hand which usually takes some 20 plus years to complete.

I will be posting more information about the Life Task in upcoming blog posts so stay tuned!

photo by Brad Stone