Karmic Lessons : 2, 6, & 7

karmic​: denoting good or bad luck, viewed as resulting from one's actions. ​
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​I do not think it is a just a coincidence that today 8/8 that my mother and I somehow stumbled upon the topic of numerology. It started with her just throwing out there how her Life Number is 1 and that her and my father share the same life number. Of course me being the coincidence-loving-perhaps there is more out there personality I needed to know, "What is my Life Number?" After figuring out my own life number, my mother sent me my numerology chart which has A LOT of information on it. However the one section I was drawn to was the karmic section. I know what karma means, but what I didn't know was "What are my lessons?"

Turns out that my birth name: Ava Elise Manahan has three missing numbers, 2, 6, & 7. Before my mother and I even looked at the meanings behind any I joked saying that I'm sure "patience" is going to be one of my karmic lessons. Turned out I was right! Below are the explanations from a website that I felt explained my karmic numbers well.
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Missing 2:
Diplomacy and tact are not your strong suits. You will need to work on this. Be willing to be a behind-the-scenes contributor. Learn to set goals and reach them for the sake of the accomplishment more than the accolade. You don't need to be in the spotlight all the time. Work on your ability to be a team player.
You need to start being more observant of other people's feelings. You have a tendency to plough over people. Learn to stand back and let them stretch and grow. Your successes in life will all come at the cost of you learning a thing or two about delayed gratification, patience and cooperation. You will find yourself forced to share credit on many projects, even when you are a major or nearly sole contributor.

As I mentioned previously I know I need to work on patience when it comes to the timing of things. I do not like waiting and of course at this position in my life, patience is the main thing that I have to do. I also need to remind myself more often than not that people need to be on THEIR own journeys and that we all have different paths in life. This has come up a more than once in my life and I'm hoping I am able to keep reminding myself of this till the end of my days. (I know I have already failed at this acknowledgement recently but I have been actively trying to go against my default response)
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Missing Number 6:
You have issues committing to anything. This is true of relationships but also work projects or maybe even a career. You come across as uncaring or emotionless. You need to let people see your range of emotions and be more demonstrative. You might often feel alone even if you have people around you who care about you and whom you love as well. You need to learn how to be sincere and communicate your feelings more effectively. Life will throw many opportunities to learn this lesson at you. Don't dodge them, face them.
You will learn how important it is to have friends and confidants and how fulfilling a lasting, committed relationship can be. You will learn the concepts of giving and self-sacrifice. There are few things that are more difficult to learn but also few that are of greater value.

While reading about the karmic numbers it says how if you have the number in your birth date that the lesson itself may be to a lesser degree than it usually is perceived. HOWEVER there are plenty of lessons from 6 that I know I need to work on. The idea of not being able to commit is more focused on the job front that any relationship. I am indecisive. I like change. Heck I change my hair all the time! I can't even commit to a single hair style! But when it has come to my life's work I have to be humble and say I haven't committed fully yet--I switched majors in college, after years in tradition education I've left the field, and even in part time jobs I have bounced around. With the fact that Saturn went into retrograde and with finally feeling like I've come into something that connected my ideologies with my nature I'm hoping that this karmic lesson has been learned. I know that my husband is the person who has done his best to guide me to this place as well.

After calling him with all this information my husband and I talked about how I changed my name. The numbers of your life come from your name, and when I married my husband I inherited letters I did not have before. Letters come with numbers attached to them, and his name had numbers I think compliment what I needed to grow, and root down. My life number loves the idea of stability, and I believe wholeheartedly now with all this research that my husband was more meant for me than I had ever planned.

​"You might often feel alone even if you have people around you who care about you and whom you love as well." When I first read this part of my number 6 it rang deep. When I was younger all I craved for was the idea of someone just "liking me" all I wanted was a boy to want to hold my hand and think of me more than a friend. I could never express this deep emotional need because I thought it was silly since I knew my parents loved me very very much. I think my youth I did not learn how to overcome this karmic number. I chose "friends" who were not nice to me and only made me feel more alone in the end. Part of the reason I want to write this blog post is to be vulnerable and allow my emotions to be read and seen. I've never been the best at expressing them and if I have it's been with a fiery outburst and honestly never tactful.
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Missing Number 7:
You tend to take an overly casual approach to certain things. You will find yourself forced to increase knowledge and skill in at least one specific area in your life, or perhaps even one at a time. Life may cause you to live in the same cycles until you finally “get” your lesson. You could definitely use a slightly more self-critical attitude. Sometimes you literally think you could do no wrong but the reality is that we all have flaws and defects. Learning to work through them is far more beneficial than constantly working around them.
There is more to the things that occupy your life than what you see on the surface. Learn to dig deeper, expect more and understand better

To be honest this explanation doesn't quite ring as true to me since most things in my life have been focusing on one thing at a time. I only was good at soccer, I focus more on just photography rather than other art forms, and I follow one physical practice the most, my yoga practice. However, maybe my parents helped me learned this lesson at a younger age through their own life experiences? One thing that I can take away from this explanation is the idea that I can do some wrong. That perhaps when I am at an impasse with someone in my life I need to take that step back and go "What did I do wrong?" I feel that I have gotten better at that although I'm sure people who I have had rocky relationships with probably feel differently (haha). As I write this post I will make it my duty to try and be better in the future about this part of myself.
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I will and always have enjoyed things like numerology. I like looking at my traits to see more about myself. I think the most interesting thing to think about when it comes to the Karmic Numbers is this: "When do you know if you have learned your lesson?" I know I don't know, and maybe no one else really knows either. Perhaps what we are suppose to do is when we are of an age to really utilize this information we keep it in our back pocket. We keep it there to use to reflect and acknowledge if we are sub-coming to the things we should be working on, or are we actively trying to change what we need to work on in order to keep pushing through our lessons in this world. The most important thing to take away is that we are human and as long as we are trying to do better everything and everyone in our world will benefit.