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Sacred Contracts

Sacred Contracts

Awakening Your Divine Potential
by Caroline Myss 2013 530 pages
Spirituality
Self Help
Psychology
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Key Takeaways

1. Discover Your Sacred Contract: Uncover Your Life's Purpose

"A Sacred Contract is an agreement your soul makes before you are born. You promise to do certain things for yourself, for others, and for divine purposes. Part of the Contract requires that you discover what it is that you are meant to do."

Soul agreements. Your Sacred Contract is a pre-birth agreement between your soul and the Divine. It outlines your life's purpose, lessons to learn, and contributions to make. This Contract isn't just about your career or relationships, but encompasses your entire journey of personal and spiritual growth.

Divine guidance. The Divine promises to provide guidance through intuition, dreams, and synchronicities. Your task is to recognize and act on these signs. Understanding your Contract helps you see life's challenges as opportunities for growth rather than random hardships.

Fulfilling potential. By aligning with your Sacred Contract, you tap into your highest potential and live a more purposeful, fulfilling life. This understanding can transform how you view your experiences, relationships, and choices, giving deeper meaning to your journey.

2. Embrace Your Archetypes: The Twelve Guides of Your Soul

"Archetypes are your energy guides to your highest potential—the fulfillment of the five stages of your Sacred Contract."

Archetypal companions. You have twelve primary archetypal patterns that influence your life, including four survival archetypes: Child, Victim, Prostitute, and Saboteur. These archetypes aren't good or bad but neutral energy patterns that can manifest positively or negatively.

Guides to potential. Archetypes serve as guides to help you fulfill your Sacred Contract and reach your highest potential. They influence your perceptions, choices, and behaviors, often operating at an unconscious level.

Self-discovery tool. Identifying and understanding your personal archetypes provides profound insights into your motivations, strengths, and challenges. This self-knowledge empowers you to make conscious choices aligned with your true nature and life purpose.

3. Harness the Power of Symbolic Sight: See Beyond the Physical

"Symbolic sight enables you to get back your energy or spirit and heal emotionally, spiritually, and sometimes even physically."

Deeper perception. Symbolic sight is the ability to perceive life events, relationships, and experiences beyond their literal, physical manifestations. It allows you to see the spiritual significance and lessons in everyday occurrences.

Energy awareness. By developing symbolic sight, you become more attuned to the energy dynamics in your life. This awareness helps you recognize patterns, make conscious choices, and reclaim your personal power.

Healing tool. Symbolic sight can be a powerful healing tool, allowing you to reframe past traumas, current challenges, and future possibilities. It shifts your perspective from victim to empowered creator of your life experience.

4. Navigate Your Chakras: Align Your Energy Centers

"The chakras are our energy anatomical system."

Energy centers. The seven chakras are energy centers aligned along the spine, each corresponding to specific physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of our being. An eighth chakra, above the crown, connects to archetypal energies.

Holistic health. Understanding and balancing your chakras can promote overall well-being. Each chakra influences different areas of life:

  • Root (1st): Survival, grounding
  • Sacral (2nd): Creativity, sexuality
  • Solar Plexus (3rd): Personal power, self-esteem
  • Heart (4th): Love, compassion
  • Throat (5th): Communication, self-expression
  • Third Eye (6th): Intuition, wisdom
  • Crown (7th): Spiritual connection
  • Archetypal (8th): Access to collective unconscious

Energy flow. By working with your chakras, you can identify and clear blockages, allowing life force energy to flow freely through your system. This can lead to improved physical health, emotional balance, and spiritual growth.

5. Cast Your Archetypal Wheel: Map Your Spiritual Journey

"Your Archetypal Wheel shows you your soul's relationship to power."

Spiritual map. The Archetypal Wheel is a powerful tool for understanding your Sacred Contract. It combines your twelve personal archetypes with the twelve houses of the zodiac, creating a unique map of your spiritual journey.

Power dynamics. Each house of the Wheel represents a different aspect of life, such as ego, relationships, or spirituality. The archetype that falls into each house reveals how you relate to power in that area of your life.

Intuitive process. Casting your Wheel involves an intuitive process of matching your archetypes to the twelve houses. This exercise provides deep insights into your life patterns, challenges, and potential. It serves as a foundation for interpreting your Sacred Contract and gaining guidance for your life's journey.

6. Interpret Your Chart of Origin: Decode Your Life Patterns

"Your Archetypal Wheel is only the first of many that you can cast for guidance in all areas of your life."

Life blueprint. Your Chart of Origin, or Contract Wheel, is the primary Archetypal Wheel you cast. It provides an overview of your life patterns and Sacred Contract.

Archetypal insights. Interpreting your Chart involves exploring how each archetype manifests in its assigned house. This process reveals:

  • Strengths and challenges
  • Relationship dynamics
  • Career inclinations
  • Spiritual path
  • Life lessons

Holistic understanding. By examining your Chart of Origin, you gain a comprehensive view of your life purpose, recurring patterns, and potential areas for growth. This understanding empowers you to make choices aligned with your Sacred Contract.

7. Apply Working Charts: Gain Daily Guidance and Insight

"Working charts can also inspire creative thinking when you are beginning a new enterprise."

Targeted guidance. While your Chart of Origin provides an overview of your life, working charts can be cast for specific questions or areas of concern. These charts offer focused insights for decision-making and problem-solving.

Practical application. Working charts can be used for a variety of purposes:

  • Career decisions
  • Relationship issues
  • Health concerns
  • Creative projects
  • Spiritual growth

Intuitive tool. Casting and interpreting working charts helps develop your intuitive abilities and symbolic sight. Regular use of this tool can deepen your understanding of your Sacred Contract and enhance your ability to navigate life's challenges with greater awareness and purpose.

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Review Summary

4 out of 5
Average of 16k+ ratings from Goodreads and Amazon.

Sacred Contracts receives mixed reviews, with many praising its insights into archetypes and self-discovery. Readers appreciate Myss's approach to understanding life purpose and personal growth. Some find the exercises and concepts transformative, while others struggle with the complexity or skepticism about the methodology. Critics argue the book is pseudoscientific or overly religious. Supporters value the book's potential for self-reflection and spiritual development. Overall, readers who engage deeply with the material tend to find it more rewarding, though it may not appeal to everyone.

About the Author

Caroline Myss is an American author and speaker in the fields of human consciousness, spirituality, and mysticism. Born in 1952 in Chicago, she began her career in journalism before pursuing theology. Myss claims to be a medical intuitive and has written several New York Times bestsellers on energy medicine and healing. She co-founded Stillpoint Publishing and has collaborated with holistic doctors. Myss teaches workshops and seminars internationally, focusing on spirituality and personal growth. In 2003, she established the Caroline Myss Educational Institute. Her work often draws from various religious and spiritual traditions, including Christianity, Hinduism, and Kabbalah.

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