Destinies are pre-determined....

There is something to be said of the fact that my LIFE PATH number is 6, that I feel an affinity to the sacred scribes of Kemet and that I respect and admire Farrakhan for his divine intervention in my life at a time when salvation was needed. It causes me to reflect on the concept of destiny and whether or not our lives are predetermined as in the "Book of Coming Forth by Day" (known as "Book of the Dead to western scholars). I've explored these three sides of my spiritual self and found these facts to be true of my very nature.


Six represents equilibrium; harmony - balance. It symbolizes union of polarity- the male, fire and the heavens, and the female, the waters and the earth. Six is the symbol of luck; love; health; beauty; chance. It is a winning number at the throw of the dice in the West. There are six rays of the solar wheel and there are six interlaced triangles. There are six pointed stars or Seal of Solomon - and Star of David - Merkabah. To the Chinese: Six represents Universe, with its four cardinal points and the Above and Below - making it a total of six directions. Chinese culture there are six senses: taste, touch, smell, sight, hearing, the sixth being mind. The day and night each have six periods. For Christians: Six is perfection; completion because man was created on the sixth day. Six is man's number. Hebrew: There are six days of creation. It symbolizes meditation and intelligence. Kabbalism: Six is creation, and beauty. Pythagorean: Luck Sumerian: Six days of creation.

The number six is considered a perfect number (the factors of the number 1, 2 and 3) add up to the number itself (1+2+3=6). The six sides of a cube can be opened out to create a cross shape. The book of Genesis describes Gods work of creation as taking 6 days to complete.

Character traits: Equillibrium with others. Enjoys peace between all people. Values comfort and ease and enjoys beautiful things. A negotiator and peace-maker.
Negative tendencies: Gossipy, limited outlook, obstinate and unreasonable. Excessive worrying (especially about family members)


This speaks to who I am. The path I've taken in my life and the trials I've gone through in the last 2 weeks. My own personal jihad (struggle or war within) has been in the quest for balance between head and heart...money vs. mission. To know that what I've experienced is on point with what the universe places out there is validating, but the need for triangulated evidence becomes necessary so I look to Kemetic teaching and see more evidence of Divine Truths. In looking to the number 6, its meanings and the history of Kemet, I came again to the familiar concept and image of Ma'at.

Ma'at
Patron of: truth, law and universal order.

Appearance: A woman wearing a crown surmounted by a huge ostrich feather. Her totem symbol is a stone platform or foundation, representing the stable base on which order is built.

Description: Ma'at was the personification of the fundamental order of the universe, without which all of creation would perish. The primary duty of the pharaoh was to uphold this order by maintaining the law and administering justice. To reflect this, many pharaohs took the title "Beloved of Maat," emphasizing their focus on justice and truth. At any event in which something would be judged, Maat was said to be present, and her name would be invoked so that the judge involved would rule correctly and impartially. In the underworld, the heart of the deceased was weighed by Anubis against Maat's feather. If the heart was heavy with wicked deeds, it would outweigh the feather, and the soul would be fed to Ammit. But if the scales were balanced, indicating that the deceased was a just and honorable person in life, he would be welcomed by Osiris into the Blessed Land. Maat's presence in all worlds was universal, and all the gods deferred to her. There are 7 virtues of Ma'at and 42 admonitions/guidelines of correct behavior of Ma'at (4+2=6).

The very repetition of similar concepts - balance, justice, harmony, reciprocity- makes this evidence stand clear in my mind as validation of all that I have gone through and will go through. "The Matrix" (6) spoke on the idea of truth as being something you can NOT run from...all of this is true in my everyday existence. Ma'at's outstretched wings seems to me as a kind of blanket that envelopes humanity...in much the same way as I try to embrace those that are in my charge for a short term. The weighing of the heart on the scale, symbolic of the end of days, is word-for-word of the process I went through in recent days - my heavy heart was made light when the "right" decision was made.

Islam, too, offers some explanation of my path. In Surah 25, "Al Furqan" (6) and in the very being of Farrakhan (so named by his teacher based on qualities likened to this surah), I find a kind of strength and fortitude that serves as inspiration for me. "And the servants of Allah are those who walk on teh earth in humility and when the ignorant address them, they say 'peace'." (Surah 25, verse 63). The firy delivery of Farrakhan's teachings and the very descriptions of the Surah reveal the existence of contrasts between light vs. darkness, truth vs. falsehood, real vs. fantasy, knowledge vs. ignorance. I strive to speak truth and present truth in all perspectives so that those around me can make informed decisions. I do not believe it to be a mistake that my conversion from Christianity (Baptist Church) to Islam (N.O.I.) came under the leadership of HLF. It is not a mistake that I was blessed to move so swiftly through the ranks to work with HLF and his assistants so closely as to be in his presence and receive his request to join his teaching staff, receive guidance on the best way to teach the youth, sit on the same dais as him on the day of my "Muslim rites of passage", stand in his living room and receive kind words for work well done that outweigh bad deeds done or sit at his dinner table and feed on his words of wisdom. I do not believe in coincidence, but in evidence. My life path has shown me that destinies are pre-determined....ours is but to step into the stream that is our life and to just go with the flow.