Creative Obstacles

If you feel like you’ve signed up for the hurdle race in life right about now, what if you realised that actually could be the case? The very talented intuitive astrologer, Robert Ohotto, is currently doing promos for his book, Transforming Fate Into Destiny, including posting interviews on YouTube that shed a little light on all sorts of subjects, including creative obstacles and how to discern them from what he calls fated redirections.

Basically, when you run up against problem after problem, how do you know if that’s just par for the course in the grand scheme of things or if each block is a sign trying to redirect you to a path that’s better for you? Thankfully, we now have the Ohotto take on that question, which makes rather good sense. He speaks from a soul perspective, assuming that we sign up for certain fated experiences in our lives to develop the character traits to bring forth our destinies. As he puts it, some people start off in life, hit hurdle after hurdle and begin to give up, thinking they’re on the wrong path, but those hurdles could be exactly what’s required for them. Ohotto imagines that from a higher perspective “God says ‘ You signed up for the hurdle race – what do you think is going to happen? There’s hurdles on the race!’ Hurdles like that are about ‘you’re on the right path’ – it’s part of the race and the journey of life – but you’re going to have to develop the stamina and agility you need to get over that hurdle and keep going.”

He adds, “Creative obstacles aren’t there to stop you, but are there to say you’ve got to buoy up your soul and really work hard to get different character traits ready for the next aspect of your purpose. Fated redirections, however, come up when people are maybe on a path that isn’t intrinsically authentic to them, but believe it is because of a cultural spell or a wound in themselves”.

This is explains one of life’s greater questions – why do so many people go on American Idol if they can’t sing? For Ohotto, the answer is clear – they are acting from an inner wound that perhaps feels like they’ve never been seen, so they chase a larger audience, or they fall under a cultural spell which convinces them that fame is the only answer to the validation they seek.

That rather reminds me of the gloriously vacuous character Suzanne, played by Nicole Kidman in Gus Van Sant’s wonderfully dark film, ‘To Die For’. One of her teenage coterie of admirers remarks “Suzanne used to say that you’re not really anybody in America unless you’re on TV … cause what’s the point of doing anything worthwhile if there's nobody watching? So when people are watching, it makes you a better person. So if everybody was on TV all the time, everybody would be better people. But, if everybody was on TV all the time, there wouldn't be anybody left to watch, and that's where I get confused”. I hear you sister – with that set of values, who wouldn’t be a little mixed up?

In Ohotto’s terms, you get sent fated redirections – rather than life’s usual hurdle race – when you’re chasing a purpose that “really isn’t authentic to the design that you contracted to from the level of your soul”. If it’s a fated redirection, he says “You’ll know because if you get honest with yourself you don’t really have a passion for it – rather you’re going through the shadow, wounded part of yourself to try to get something to make your ego feel healed and better.” The way to discern between the two is whether or not you have a genuine passion for the path you’re on and the life you’re living.

He stresses that life is cyclical and “as we move through life, different creative forces awaken and different passions show up that maybe we never thought we had before. Passion to me is when you connect to something that energises you that gives you a sense of meaning and purpose that makes you want to get out of bed to do, and that somehow allows you to expand yourself and bring something unique about yourself forward.”

Ohotto concludes, “Destiny is born out of honouring the most unique aspects of who you are and serving others through them. Destiny is ultimately about the service we were born to fulfil to other people through the unique aspects of who we are and embodying those unique aspects of who we are in the most satisfying way … Destiny is exploring the mystery of who you are, exploring what you don’t know about yourself, it’s being open to the unseen forces within yourself and allowing them to come out and transform you and other people at the same time. Destiny is never really fully done – just because you’re on a path that seems keeps bringing you obstacles, doesn’t mean you’re on the wrong path necessarily, what it requires you to do is discern what motivates you to do what you do … If you start to go within, that inner pilgrimage, and do the work of sourcing some uniqueness out of yourself into the world that’s when the universe rises to meet you, synchronicities happen right left and centre and the dream becomes much bigger than you thought it would”. Amen to that.

So, this week, take a good look at the hurdles cropping up in your life. Do they feel like road-blocks trying to divert your path or creative obstacles bringing you an opportunity to develop new or stronger character traits? Are you behaving like a classic American Idol contestant in some part of your life, trying to pursue something you have no real talent for? Or are you giving up too soon on something you feel really passionate about? Would you be on the path you’re on if there were no discernible reward in the outside world, ie would you do it without the money or applause? If the answer’s no, what are you genuinely passionate about? These are not times to resign yourself to taking the money – if you want all the synchronicity and help the universe can give, you’d better be engaged in something you really love. Passion is the word this week. Use it wisely.

If you want to see Robert Ohotto talk this concept through, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX7Ty1-ymw4.

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