Have you ever asked yourself what you were put here to do? Or noticed the activities you love so much that time disappears while you're doing them? Most of us can name what we enjoy. Far fewer of us recognize that those same enjoyments may be pointing toward a life's calling.
An old saying, frequently credited to Confucian wisdom, captures the idea: do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life.
In numerology, the terms "heart's desire number" and "passion number" come up often. Their meaning isn't always clear, and neither one is really about romance. Both concern locating what you are meant for inside yourself so you can act on it. Here is a closer look at each.
The Heart's Desire Number
On this plane, each lifetime comes with a personality, and there are many lenses for describing it: personality tests that sort people into introvert or extrovert, the traits tied to your zodiac sign and Rising sign, and assorted numerology methods. Tarot can also surface personal themes.
Numerous approaches exist for identifying the heart's desire that sits deep in your soul and personality. Traits can even carry over from one lifetime to another, particularly when karmic business remains unfinished.
Life sometimes throws up so much chaos that we lose sight of the forest for the trees where our own selves are concerned. Few of us have the time to look. And when we do take it, guilt often follows.
Don't let it.
Take the time anyway. Even 15 minutes a day locked in the bathroom can yield remarkable internal results.
The heart's desire number is another route to the same discovery. Numerology assigns every letter of the alphabet a number, and every vowel in your name maps to one of those numbers. The result is your heart's desire number.
Discover your heart's desire number right here Once you've read its meaning, ask yourself how those themes show up in your life.
My own number, for instance, points to a love of communicating, which fits the career I chose. That puts me one step closer to both knowing my heart's desire and living it.
This number exposes what operates beneath the surface: urges you may not realize you carry and long to satisfy. It shows what gets you out of bed each morning and why you behave as you do, for better or worse. That knowledge helps you choose more wisely, and more importantly, it helps you live your destiny. Every act in this life rests on some underlying motivation. Your heart's desire number explains it: why you reach for that chocolate bar, or don't, or pick up the phone, or don't. Both work and love benefit from that insight.
The Hidden Passion Number
The hidden passion number moves your desires to a deeper level and helps you uncover your distinctive gifts and talents. What are you good at? What do you love doing in your free time? The desire number explains the why. The passion number explains the what.
My son is 16 and worries that he doesn't know what he wants to do with the rest of his life. I sometimes chuckle at that. "How many 16-year-olds have it figured out?" I ask him.
Then again, how many 56-year-olds do? Not many, and I can speak from experience. My own heart's desire traces back to high school, when my English teacher urged me to "never stop writing."
I didn't listen. I followed society's norms and expectations and wrote only in my spare time, when spare time appeared. Today it is my career. Of course it is work, and of course practical responsibilities come with it. Still, I count myself blessed every day, and the same can happen for you.
I often remind my son that he can find his passion and learn to succeed at it, no matter what anyone in his life or later on says to him. I tell him God gave him special miracles at birth that are his gifts and talents. Those are the things you are good at, and you love them because you are good at them, even if you don't see it yet.
At the moment he is an athlete, competing in both varsity and Special Olympics. A gold medal hangs on his wall because he stopped worrying and began focusing on doing what he loves.
Do what you love and you will never work a day in your life. Whatever or whoever you believe in, the thing you love to do tends also to be the thing you happen to do well.
In this Age of Aquarius, technology has opened money-making opportunities that can benefit all of us. As a kid, I had no chance to become a YouTube star. It didn't exist. Now it does. Thanks to visionaries like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, there are more ways than ever to build a career from what you love doing.
What do you love to do? Perhaps you don't know yet. Perhaps you don't yet see how it could become a success. Are you the best knitter at Bridge Club? Do you bring the moistest brownies to the PTA? There is a way to turn your particular gifts toward serving humanity.
Search online for ways to help others, and perhaps to earn money while doing it. Developing video games? Building websites? Reading the news? Or maybe you simply enjoy tweeting and can engage friends and the wider world with one powerful tweet a day. People do make a living that way, you know.
What is your passion? Numerology can help you uncover this karmic lesson.
Final Thoughts
When it comes to learning more about ourselves, we have literally millions of tools available. If astrology, the Tarot, and numerology interest you, you don't need to sort through them all. Each of these divination tools can help you discover what you love to do and why you love doing it.
If you feel old and still haven't figured it out, don't beat yourself up. Some souls never do, and you likely had previous lifetimes in which you didn't either. In this lifetime, you can move one step closer to learning your heart's desire and your hidden passions.
Keep reading your Daily Horoscopes to learn what is favored on this or that day, and then discover your heart's desire number and hidden passion number. What are you going to do with your lifetime?
