Your Blind Spot May be Blocking Your Destiny

On making the unconscious conscious

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - C.G. Jung

My therapist once said, “Fate is what happens to you; your destiny is what you make with it.”

Or something to that effect.

I had questions, many questions about why things seemed to be happening to me, bad things, and I didn’t understand what I was missing.

I thought I was a good person - I gave my kids attention and nurtured their interests.

I helped others by offering counseling (free at the time in fact).

I tried to be considerate of others.

And yet surprisingly large challenges kept coming at me that were inexplicable to me.

The idea of fate and destiny having different intentions and structures was new. If fate was what happened to me, it was something I had no control over.

“But destiny,” my therapist said. “This is something you can do something about.”

“Okay,” I said skeptically.

In Jung’s quote above, he invites us to increase our self-knowledge, and reduce our personal blin…