Life Purpose: Inspire the Masses, Successful Public Impact in the Healing Arts
Life Lesson: Mr. Not Enough
School: Service
Formula: Who am I to Inspire the Masses? Who am I not to?

Introduction

Have you seen the TV commercial in which an upscale couple is shown touring the Great Wall of China? Smiling at each other in smug satisfaction, they cross another item off their Top-Ten-Things-To-Do-In-This-Lifetime Checklist. That's how I must have looked in the summer of 2000 when, like kids trading baseball cards, I got JFK's fingerprints from Andre Washington and he got Albert Einstein's from me. The Freedom of Information Act requires dead presidents' fingerprints be public record but for the life of me I could not work my way through the paperwork maze. Andres' superior bureaucratic skills paid off handsomely and poof, there before my very eyes, JFK's prints appeared on my computer screen.

John was not the original choice of his dad to occupy the White House. Joe Jr., his older brother killed in action during World War II, was the chosen one until fate stepped in. Was President Kennedy actually living his life dream or was he flogging himself daily trying to live up to some impossible standard? And what about all that Marilyn Monroe stuff? The most powerful person on the planet just had sex with the epitome of sexuality, the proverbial Eve of the twentieth century. Did he ever feel complete and whole? Or does he get up and look for something to do, something to eat, something else; anything, as opposed to being at home with himself? Since JFK did significant Masses Inspiring we can assume he must have made progress on his Life Lesson during his attenuated stay on the planet, but how haunted was he by Mr. Not Enough? We'll never know.

There is a scene in Thirteen Days, a movie about the Cuban Missile Crisis starring Kevin Costner that comes to mind. Kevin is in a limo with Robert Kennedy, the president's brother and key advisor. Robert is to meet with Gromyko, his Soviet counterpart and negotiate a settlement that will save the world from nuclear annihilation. Or he will fail and the world as we know it will end. RFK tells Costner he feels inadequate to the task. Costner replies, "There is no one else I would rather trust with the lives of my wife and children." Buoyed up, RFK rises to the challenge. Confidant but not too confidant, he makes real human contact with Gromyko and the crisis is resolved. RFK's bout with insecurity saved the world.

The fate of all humanity may not hang in the balance in your life, Marilyn Monroe may not be coming over shortly for a nightcap, but the Kennedy brothers' story allows a good illustration of just how one's Nemesis (Life Lesson) can become one's greatest Ally.

Life Purpose: Inspire the Masses, Successful Public Impact in the Healing Arts
Life Lesson: Mr. Not Enough
School: Service / Inner Peace
Formula: Who am I to Inspire the Masses? What right do I have not to?

JFK's fingerprints provide our entry into the mysterious world of Mr. Not Enough, the voice of insufficiency. Always looking for that illusive something that will signal the final victory, feeling somehow short of what life requires - that is Mr. Not Enough. Not having enough money to do what you want, not having enough time to get the job done, not having enough smarts, good looks, lucky breaks - that is the Mr. Not Enough voice in action.

In the classic Mr. Not Enough chart shown above, both Jupiter and Saturn fingers have Arches as the low ranking fingerprints but any combination that includes these two fingers as the Life Lesson will qualify. We will explore several different versions of Mr. Not Enough in the pages ahead, but for now let's look at the basics.

Mr. Not Enough is a dual Life Lesson based upon the combined elements of Jupiter and Saturn. Jupiter Issues center on Power, Saturn Issues center on Self Worth. The Paradox Principle states that to access one's Power and Self Worth one must visit that aspect of self that feels powerless and worthless, an aspect of self willing to abdicate the responsibility of living one's Life Purpose. Hmm. Let's examine this more fully.

Being Powerful means:
  * Exercising independence of action, not apologizing for who you are
  * Having confidence in your abilities, bringing your talents out into the world
  * Standing up for yourself, setting your own life agenda

Having Self Worth means:
 * Knowing you are OK even if your circumstances aren't
 * Valuing yourself as a person, saying no to violation, not being manipulated by      guilt
 * Adhering to your ethical and moral code, even if it means risking disapproval

When your Power Department and Self Worth Department both go haywire at the same time, when you feel trapped and helpless, insufficient, hopelessly lacking in some essential way - that is Mr. Not Enough. Mr. Not Enough is the voice inside telling you that you are bad, NOT OK. You will never measure up. Excellent performance or fortuitous outcomes cannot deter this section of your consciousness. Climb Mt. Everest and Mr. Not Enough says, "Two days?" Work harder, climb Mt. Everest in one day and Mr. Not Enough responds, "South face?" So you climb the north face in the winter in half a day. Does this stop the Mr. Not Enough voice? Hardly. "What about your spouse and kids? How much time have you spent with them lately?"

Most people can relate in some way with Mr. Not Enough. Who amongst us is one hundred percent without self doubt? At its best our hesitancy causes us to look before we leap, to properly assess our capabilities. Grappling with uncertainty is part of reaching out to one's fullest potential. But for those with these fingerprints Mr. Not Enough is a recurring life theme of major proportions.

So Many Possibilities

Those with Tented Arch versions tend to procrastinate, Mr. Not Enough joining forces with Mr. Next Year to become a fearsome double headed dragon. "I will do it when everything is just right. Then (any time other than now) I will …" Those with Arches usually take the opposite tack, rushing around with Mr. Sticks and Plates trying to get everything done perfectly. "If others think I am good enough, maybe then I finally will be." Still others hide out in Mr. Mellow or Ms. La Dee Dah. "If I don't do nothin', I can't do anything wrong." Others get so demoralized they give up without a battle. "Why even try, I know I can't do it."

"There are so many Mr. Not Enough possibilities Richard you'll never be able to tell your readers each one." My gosh. That's right. Since I can't tell them each one, maybe I should try to pick a representative sample group. That would be better. They probably don't have the time or patience to read each one anyway. Thanks Mr. Not Enough. Good Idea.

Gil's Mr. Not Enough kept whispering, "You're nothing. You're nothing." You wouldn't want to dance with me, his demeanor suggested as one girl after another turned him down at the dance. A classic self perpetuating cycle of failure filled Gil's life until one day…Eureka! "I am nothing - no thing. I am more than a thing. I am a spiritual essence, an ongoing multi-dimensional being here at the Earth University. Eehaa! People meditate twenty years at the ashram to get into their no-thingness and here I am, already a master of no-thing. Well then, now I can do any darn thing I want." This new relationship with Mr. Not Enough did not transform Gil into a prince with super models fighting for his attention but it certainly shifted things in the right direction.

Also having Mr. Not Enough, John was afraid that if he attempted something big and succeeded people would find out just what a fraud he really was - so he committed himself to never succeeding past the point that would get him noticed. In both of these illustrations the main challenge is in recognizing that the conditions of life are not causing the Mr. Not Enough feeling. The feeling preceded the condition. Gil was afraid of rejection, John was afraid of being found out. Recognizing the real fear and dealing with it is where the fulfillment possibility lies. Battling false causes will never get our threesome to their promised land. Time for a musical interlude.

Vienna Waits for You (Billy Joel)

Slow down you crazy child.
You're so ambitious for a juvenile.
But then, if you're so smart, tell me why are you still so afraid?
Where's the fire, what's the hurry about?
You better cool it off before you burn it out.
You got so much to do and only so many hours in a day.
But you know that when the truth is told, you can get what you want or you can just get old.
You're gonna kick off before you even get half way through.
When will you realize Vienna waits for you?

Slow down, you're doing fine.
You can't be everything you want to be before your time.
Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight, tonight.
Too bad but it's the life you lead.
You're so ahead of yourself that you forgot what you need.
'Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.
You got your passions, you got your pride.
But don't you know that only fools are satisfied?
Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
When will you realize Vienna waits for you?

Slow down you crazy child.
Take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while.
It's alright. You can afford to lose a day or two.
When will you realize Vienna waits for you?

Six Keys for Dealing Successfully with Mr. Not Enough

You came into this lifetime concerned you weren't powerful enough to do your Life Purpose, that somehow, when the chips were down, you would blow it. The piece of you that feels this way needs to be brought into the light so that it cannot sabotage the efforts of the other 90%.

Reading hands is my passion. I have read the hands of babies just born and hands near one hundred years old. From successful business people to shamanic healers, from mass murderers to movie queens, each pair of hands presents a sharply focused window into the inner workings of another unique human being. But perhaps the most curious work I have done is Archeological Hand Analysis, the study of hands left behind by those no longer on the planet. Petroglyphs of the American Southwest, the Cave of Hands in Argentina, the hands in concrete in front of Mann's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles and old photos in history books, Life Magazine, and personal collections offer a curious record to those interested, a Biography Channel all its own.

Note the hands of Martin Luther King, or more specifically, note the right hand of MLK. In the IIHA system of hand analysis, the right hand often represents the part of you shown to the world, the left hand reveals more private information. In this case, the left hand is in hiding and as we review some of the attributes revealed in the right hand, there is a certain logic to this fact.

Malcolm X

Life Purpose: Passionate Artist / The Individualist
Life Lesson: Power / Authority
Soul Initiation: It is Safe to Feel and Express

Malcolm X was one of the most controversial figures of the 20th century. A black nationalist and charismatic speaker, he was assassinated by the Nation of Islam in 1965. A short visit to his fingerprints, palms and biography makes interesting reading.

Malcolm's dad was also an outspoken figure whose position in the community got his house burned down and, eventually, got him murdered. We will never know exactly how this affected the young Malcolm, but take note his Right Jupiter Life Lesson. When Right Jupiter is the low ranking fingerprint, expect Issues of Power to predominate, usually in difficult and challenging ways. Territorial violations and outright injustice piled upon injustice must have left their mark. It would be quaint to draw a straight line from such incidents to Malcolm X's social consciousness, but that is not the way things tend to go at the Earth University. Malcolm became a criminal and was sent to jail for burglary.

It was in prison that Malcolm Little became Malcolm X and joined the Nation of Islam; his superb oratory responsible for much of the organization's growth in the early 60's. But when Malcolm found out the leader of the Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad, was violating the very creed he preached, Malcolm could not be silenced. It was Malcolm's adherence to principle, his courage to stand up for what he believed that made him famous and eventually got him killed, just like his dad. Nonetheless, one can certainly say he faced his Right JupiterLife Lesson and, like the sheriff in the next story, he Reclaimed His Power.

Master of Power and Influence as the Life Lesson

When Jupiter becomes the Life Lesson, the challenge is to Reclaim Your Power. Goldilocks says the most common Reclaim Your Power errors are as follows:

• Getting stuck in someone else's life movie
  
• Fearing that you are insufficient for what life asks of you
  
• Selling out on what you really want, playing it safe
  
• Not standing your ground, running from confrontation
  
• Using more power than necessary, exercising power without appropriate restraint
• Picking a fight with your cat when you are actually angry at your dog

The Sheriff

It is the Old West. A sheriff is on patrol. Seeing a gun pointing at him from a dark alley, he pulls his own revolver and shoots the bad guy dead. Only it turns out there was no bad guy. It was a kid with a toy gun. The sheriff's mistaken identification had resulted in tragedy. Feeling terrible, the sheriff decides to hang up his guns. "No child shall ever die at my hand again," he declares. Hearing the Dodge City sheriff does not wear a gun, every bad guy in the Old West moves into town. They rob the bank three times a day but the sheriff will not resort to violence. They shoot hats off old ladies' heads just for sport and the sheriff stoically looks on. But when the bad guys start shooting at the feet of the blind man yelling "Dance. Dance…" well, that was too much.

The sheriff goes upstairs, opens the chest where he had placed his pearl handled revolvers (the right heroic theme song plays in the background) and, once again armed, he strides into the saloon to the jeers and guffaws of the men in black hats. Bang, bang. When the smoke clears, the bad guys are all gone, Dodge City is safe again and the blind guy goes on to invent the internet.

It is only a story but let's look at it more closely. The Dodge City sheriff was not a coward. He put his guns away in an attempt to be honorable but it was a mistaken attempt. Only repeated violations of his territory, actually repeated and escalating violations of his territory, convinced him to strap his guns back on. Whenever there is a Reclaim Your Power Life Lesson there is always some power giveaway perpetrated with honorable intent. Whether the guns represent a particular talent put on hold because of financial necessity or some lifestyle choice abandoned due to family arrangement or something else, all Reclaim Your Power persons are challenged to recognize the error of their ways and strap their figurative guns back on.

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Richard Nixon

Life Purpose: Effective Leader + Inspiration
Life Lesson: Family / Community Guilt
Soul Initiation: Service

Service is the Life Purpose for RMN but Family Guilt is the Life Lesson. Those old enough or intimately familiar with U.S. history can review his Checkers Speech and his You Won't Have Richard Nixon to Kick Around Anymore Speech in a new light. And his known to everyone Enemies List - here is the President of the United States of America plotting revenge against all his brothers and sisters who were willing to cut the turkey without him! Of course it all boomeranged. RMN's paranoid insecurity culminated in his resignation - the ultimate Community Guilt.

Indulge my imagination and your own for a moment and consider an alternative, more exalted RMN possibility. Years after his successful second term, the celebrated former President is head of the prestigious World Peace Forum. Now in his seventies, seeking to finish writing his memoirs and spend more time with the grandkids, this Mr. Nixon faces a new set of challenges.

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Eisenhower, Manson, Einstein and J. Edgar Hoover

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life Purpose: Famous Big Shot, Effective Leader (doing his own thing)
Life Lesson: Emotional Connection
School: Service
Formula: Your heart is the key to unlocking big success. Big success is the key to unlocking your True Service.

Charles Manson

Life Purpose: Famous Leader (doing his own thing)
Life Lesson: Emotional Connection
School: Love
Formula: Your heart is the key to unlocking the Famous Leader.


Albert Einstein

Now here is an interesting threesome: Dwight David Eisenhower, Charles Manson and Albert Einstein. (I got DDE's fingerprints from Andre Washington, Manson's (and Ted Bundy's) from Crime and Mental Disease in the Hand by Paul Gabriel Tesla and Albert Einstein came via. K. Foong from Malaysia.) Imagine being on a deserted island with these three fellows to keep you company. Never mind. All three have fingerprint patterns that, although not identical, have more in common than one might have guessed.

Dwight has a standard Big Shot Life Purpose with Whorls on both Jupiters favoring the Leadership side of the equation. Had the fingerprint chart been reversed, Whorls on both Apollo fingers and a single Whorl on Right Jupiter, the interpretation would be Influential Artist as the Life Purpose and, no doubt, someone else would have been in charge of the D Day invasion. In this case, the Apollo Whorl is more about the type of stage his Leadership requires. Famous, In the Spotlight, Effective Leadership is Dwight's fulfillment point if he can pass some of his Emotional Developmental courses at the Earth University. Apparently he did.

Effective Leaders have learned to delegate responsibilities to appropriate underlings. Even if Dwight were the best cannon cleaner in the whole darn army, even if clean cannons save lives, the free world cannot afford to have the head of all European operations exposed on the front lines. If you have fingerprints like Dwight's, you too will have to find the appropriate application of your true talents.

Manson's fingerprints are not all that different than Dwight's. Count the Radial Loop on Left Jupiter in with the Whorls and you get Famous Leadership as the Life Purpose. In this case, however, the Loops based Life Lesson must have presented a greater obstacle to development than for DDE. The usual Life Purpose Inverse for Famous Leaders would be feelings of Powerless-I-Don't-Belong. Given the circumstances of Charles Manson's life that sounds about right, although one might surmise Charlie felt pretty good being the guru to his merry band.

Albert Einstein's fingerprints include Whorls in all the same places as DDE plus a few extra, the important addition being the Whorl on Left Saturn, the mark of The Mentor. Put it all together and you get High Achiever in the Spotlight + The Mentor. Albert's Life Lesson is about Speaking Out in the World (The EF Hutton Challenge). Did you know that Albert had written FDR encouraging the building of the atom bomb despite his reservations about using it; that in the 1950's Albert had marched for and spoken out in favor of civil rights? Apparently, at some point, Albert found his voice and brought his Life Purpose forward. Albert's handprints and more on this Life Lesson can be found on this link:
Albert Einstein

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J. Edgar Hoover

Life Purpose: Passionate Artist Successful in the World / The Individualist Life Lesson: Emotional Authenticity
Soul Initiation: Emotional Connection

We now know that J. Edgar Hoover kept a large file on Albert Einstein (and numerous other perceived threats to America) and his fingerprints shown above provide a fascinating footnote to the topic of Power and Influence. Dossiers were collected by the FBI, sexual behaviors catalogued and used for intimidation as part of the Red Menace and Law and Order eras of U.S. politics. How ironic then that J. Edgar was himself a homosexual living in the closet. With his Passionate Individualist Life Purpose, did he get some kind of Hot Potato thrill clamping down on other passionate individualists while his passions skirted detection? That is something upon which we can only speculate, but his fingerprints suggest it could well be the case.

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Albert Einstein

The EF Hutton Challenge

Life Purpose: Big Shot, Service in the Spotlight, Famous Mentor to Big Shots
Life Lesson: EF Hutton (Nobody Listens to Me)
School: Service
Formula: Believe in the value of what you have to say and find your True Service.
Exalted Possibility: Get paid for speaking and change the world.

The EF Hutton Challenge can take a number of different configurations but in each case the challenge is the same: learning to value your communications. The title for this Life Lesson comes from the EF Hutton commercials that have been running on TV for decades. The scene is a busy upscale restaurant, two upscale persons are talking. "Well that's what my broker says. What does your broker say?" The other well dressed patron responds, "Well, my broker is EF Hutton and EF Hutton says…" Before the sentence can get a word further the entire restaurant is suddenly silent, every patron leaning forward with cupped ears to hear the sage advice of the most respected brokerage firm in the whole wide world (at least that is the message being conveyed). A voice over breaks the pregnant silence: "When EF Hutton talks, everyone listens." In the more recent versions of the commercial, even the cook in his tall white hat and apron comes out of the kitchen to hear EF's advice. Wow. Mr. Hutton must really have something special to say.

With these fingerprints, however, believing in the value of your communications is the Life Lesson and therefore an area that warrants extra remedial attention. In its most extreme form, owners of the EF Life Lesson are routinely ignored, first by their original family, then by their friends and teachers and eventually by their spouse and children. The pattern is reinforced to such a degree it becomes next to impossible for the owner of these fingerprints to believe in anything that emanates from inside themselves. In less difficult cases, EF'ers are challenged to believe in the tangible value of their communications. Between and around these two examples are a myriad of other possibilities, including the Exalted Possibility that Albert Einstein was able to achieve.

Not that Albert became the fuzzy haired endearing world spokesperson without a couple of battles with his Life Lesson. As you may or may not know, Albert didn't learn to speak until the age of three, was not particularly well regarded by his teachers in High School, and although the Special and General Theories of Relativity are perhaps the biggest leap forward in science since Newton, he never did receive the Nobel Prize for either. By the end of his career, most of his colleagues no longer took him seriously. Yet he continued to speak out in public for the causes he held most dear and his enduring legacy owes a sizeable percentage to his Valued Public Communications - Double Mercury plus Right Saturn transformed from Nemesis to Ally.

Albert's hand has several interesting features worthy of note. He is a Mercurian, that is for sure, his dominant Mercury finger rising almost a third of an inch above the line that separates the middle from the upper sections of Apollo. Only a small percentage of the population have Mercury fingers this long and for these super curious, super clever folk we have a nickname at the IIHA: The Code Breaker. Sherlock Holmes would have belonged to the Code Breaker Clan, as would all the others who can connect the dots in ways that look like magic to everyone else. Add in Einstein's big thumb

Conic persons are aesthetically motivated. They need all the pictures on the wall straightened, they pick the lint off your shoulder. At their best, they use this heightened sense of symmetry and beauty in their fashion career or as a buyer of Ming Vases for Christie's. Sensitive to the smallest detail that doesn't fit, anything even slightly off from perfection irritates the Conic's antennas and raises an alarm.

How does this align with AE's life? It is said that he had five suits in his closet, all the same color and cloth, thereby eliminating the need to make a selection each day. That doesn't sound like a normal member of the Conic Clan. But Albert was first and foremost a Code Breaker. I can just imagine him looking over different formula possibilities on his physicist's blackboard. No need to check these over here. I don't care what everybody else thinks. No need to check any formula that isn't elegant and pretty enough to be pleasing to God's eye. Now let's see, what might God do with E and M and C?

The Conic personality is the most Tomato Fear sensitive of any of the different types. It is as if everyone else is staring at them with the same exaggerated magnification they use as they observe the world. Everybody isn't, but it feels that way. That makes Albert's Exalted EF Hutton accomplishments even more praiseworthy. As a Conic sub-type, look what he had to overcome.

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Amelia Earhart

Live Your Passions

Life Purpose: Live Your Passions
Life Lesson: Dot your iii's, cross your ttt's
School: Love
Formula: Do what your heart tells you to do, but don't forget to check your gas gauge

The hand print on the left and the fingerprints above belong to the famous aviatrix Amelia Earhart. It is difficult to appreciate the utter fascination and hero worship associated with the aviation pioneers of the early twentieth century, but send your imagination back between the World Wars and picture the newsreel and newspaper accounts of a lone female adventurer going where no woman had gone before. Amelia's strong Via Lascivia (the half moon shaped line curving from the Moon to inside the Life Line by the wrist), nick-named the line of Icarus by Vernon Mahavel, is connected to her Fate Line and serves to highlight her exploratory nature. Combined with her Live Your Passions Life Purpose, her career choice is less than shocking.

At her best, Amelia would courageously step outside the normal boundaries, escaping societal pressures that would unfairly restrict her freedom. But her own best friend, her willingness to bend the rules, could also be her worst enemy. As I saw her handprints for the first time and read her fingerprints with its Right Saturn Life Lesson, I realized that Amelia was just the type of woman to go outside the lines one time too often. Her ultimate destiny remains a mystery to this day but her hands bear testimony to a fatal flaw strong enough to bring her down: Amelia - please - check your gas gauge. It may be too far to the next gas station and the price for running on empty may be more than you bargained for.

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Ted Bundy

Life Purpose: Passionate Artist / Passionate Individualist
Life Lesson: Power with Integrity
School: Love
Formula: Find your power and unlock the creativity that is the key to your happiness.

Life Lesson for Ted) the journey must include a trip to Power Gone Wrong. Guilt, either over-deployed or under-deployed (power without conscious restraint), is the inevitable training ground for owners of prints like these. This is my own Life Lesson and, the challenges afforded by this aspect of my Soul Psychology have been my life long companions. I find it particularly compelling to look into the hands of someone who has wrestled with the same Gremlin and did so poorly. Note the unformed Star of Apollo - creative energies fully available for Life Purpose fulfillment but never used as such.

I wonder what thoughts and images passed through Ted's twisted psyche. Did he believe that his murders were the Exaltation of Power without Apology? Did he aspire to ever more perfect murders as the expression for his Passionate Artist/Individualist Life Purpose? Is there anything the average person can learn from his life and death?

LEFT SATURN LIFE PURPOSE: THE TEACHER, ROLE MODEL, MENTOR
LEFT SATURN LIFE LESSON: ISSUES OF INTEGRITY

Introduction

With Left Saturn or both Saturn fingers as the high or low ranking fingerprints it is your life assignment to operate at the highest levels of Integrity in both your professional and personal worlds, ultimately creating a desire in others to emulate your behavior. This is one of the toughest challenges available at the Earth University; an almost unreasonably high personal growth component required. For this reason, if The Mentor does come to the fore, it tends to reach its Main Sequence expression later in life (late forties or early fifties) rather than earlier. This is as it should be. After all, we can't have just anybody setting the standard for others to follow.

Despite its long gestation period, for successful Mentors, a close inspection is likely to reveal that the Mentor theme has been in operation as far back as your sandbox days. You probably helped several four year olds learn to share their toys and not pull hair when upset. If your own existence seems to be taking too long coming together, patience is the recommendation. You are probably right on schedule.

For some, The Mentor does its coming of age at the workplace (i.e. Elementary School Teacher, Yoga Instructor, Sales Trainer). For others, there is no formal title or position. The team member that everyone looks to for advice, the caring parent or grandparent, the wise elder statesman; all could be examples of The Role Model in action. Regardless of the arena of operation, the key for Mentors is Integrity and Self Worth, especially when circumstances make this the hardest thing in the world to do.

As a Role Model trainee, it is in your interest to find excellent role models of your own to help prepare you for the rigors of this life path. You will no doubt discover, if you haven't done so already, that you find it impossible to work for or with any person or organization that does not take a strong ethical stance. In the long run, however, no matter how much you learn from and admire your teachers, it is your destiny to break away and develop on your own. Ironically, if you do well, you will find yourself in the reverse position: watching your own protégés breaking away from your stewardship. If, by then, your wisdom allows you to see this process from the larger perspective, their departure can proceed unimpeded by any need of yours to maintain control over your flock.

The Chauffer

Fred's plan was to become wealthy, very wealthy. While other kids were playing with dolls and baseballs, Fred was making money mowing lawns, cleaning cars and selling lemonade on the golf course. At ten years old, he wasn't allowed on the golf course, of course, but Fred was ambitious and charming. He often made more in tips than in lemonade sales before he eventually would be escorted off by the powers that be. As he went through school, he kept to his vision and, as he explained in the Life Purpose Workshop, he had become wealthier then even he had imagined. Now fifty-two, Fred was looking for his next challenge.

Most of the students in Fred's Life Purpose Class were looking for a change of life as well. Take Sally. Sally was smart, single and on the way up. As she explained, she had left the small town in which she had grown up - in disgrace - because of her 'failure' to marry The One her parents had their hearts set on. Now, gainfully employed but still childless at the advanced age of twenty-five, she finally felt in control of her life. Sort of. As the workshop unfolded, it became clear that Sally was slipping into the same predicament with her current boss as she had with her parents. Caught between her need for family connection and her need for freedom, Sally was getting sucked into his expectation machinery just assuredly as she had been with her parents back in East Frasalia.

Sally was the youngest in the workshop and Fred seemed to take her under his wing. "Do what someone else wants or get out of town." That's how Fred put it to Sally. "Be careful you don't let that program reinforce itself so strongly you cannot do anything but." Sally nodded her understanding, thanking Fred for putting it all into such an easy to remember phrase.

Despite Fred's ability to be a resource for Sally and everyone else at the workshop, he couldn't seem to get untracked on his own goals. As much as he enjoyed the weekend and had been an asset for all in attendance, we were getting near the close and Fred was still without a plan for his own future. Then it hit him like a ton of bricks.

"Something has been stirring around inside and I couldn't get my finger on it until right now. It had been staring me in the face all weekend and, I guess, all year since I sold my company but it only came together this instant. Is it all right if I tell a little story?"

I wanted to hear Fred's story as much as everyone else in the room. Fred went on.

"When I was twenty-two I worked as a chauffer for a wealthy and difficult elderly man. I was young, my wife was pregnant and this was the only job I could find. My boss was irritating but he grew on me over time and vice versa and after a while I became his personal assistant at his brokerage business." "Sort of Driving Miss Daisy goes to Wall Street," chimed in Sally. Everyone laughed, including Fred. "You've got the picture. In two years he taught me everything he knew and that was how I made my fortune. But here is the part that just came to me today. As he was dying he asked if I would do him one favor. He had given me everything he had to give and I told him I would do whatever he asked. He asked me to do the same for someone else as he had done for me. I agreed. He made me promise and I did so gladly but until this morning that promise had been lost in my memory somewhere. Earlier this weekend, you told me my fingerprints had The Mentor in them. I thought that sounded nice but it didn't really click until this moment. Thank you all for listening. Now I know what I want to do with the rest of my life."

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Susan B. Anthony

Message from the Heart

Life Purpose: Woman with a Message
Life Lesson: Emotional Connection
School: Love
Formula: Open your heart to your message so you can bring it to the world.

Susan B.'s fingerprints, with their nine Loops and one Whorl are as straight forward as any set of fingerprints can be. Woman with a Message, A Message with Heart; that is the Exalted possibility for this pioneering suffragette. If anyone's life can be summed up in a short phrase, there it is. Raised a Quaker, she spent the first fifteen years of her professional life as a teacher. When she was not allowed to speak at temperance rallies because of her gender, she became outraged and took off on her own, traveling the country to lecture on women's rights and the abolition of slavery. SBA always had her Message from the Heart but now she had the fire and charisma to reach her larger audience.

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Lyndon Johnson

Leader Wrestling with Guilt

Life Purpose: The Leader, Man of Influence
Life Lesson: Negative Juliet, Guilt Issues
School: Love
Formula: Find your Emotional Integrity and unlock The Leader with Heart.

You don't need to be a Chinese face reading expert or CIA voice analyst to see and hear the deep-seated guilt that permeated LBJ's Presidency during the
Viet Nam era.

But the question in my mind is which kind of guilt? Was it a life affirming, Leader with Integrity, stare-into-the-truth-mirror-and-come-clean guilt? Or was it the other, no-truth-mirror kind, one that with Right Jupiter as the Life Purpose would Inverse into Powerlessness and Failed Leadership? I wonder. And I wonder if he were alive today, could LBJ himself answer my question?

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Lee Harvey Oswald

Life Purpose: Influential Author / High Achiever with a Message
Life Lesson: Guilt Issues (Especially associated with Family / Community Disapproval)
Soul Initiation: Service

LHO's chart reveals a complex Life Lesson with a double participation of Saturn plus Left Thumb and Left Apollo. When multiples occur, the standard procedure is to emphasize whichever finger is doubled up, in this case Saturn. If you do so for LHO you place extra weight on his sense of Not Being OK, Issues of Guilt, Appropriate Behaviors, etc. And you would be correct, up to a point. However, whenever Left Apollo appears as part of a complex Life Lesson, experience has taught me that in most cases it will work best to emphasize its role in the person's life movie. If you do that with LHO, placing 1/3 of the emphasis on Not OK in the Family or Community (Double Saturn plus Left Thumb) and the other 2/3 weight on feelings of I Don't Belong (Left Apollo), I believe you get a good approximation of what must have been the dominant theme of the inner dialogue of JFK's assassin.

Attempts to live in Russia during the height of the Cold War, handing out Marxist pamphlets on the street corners of New Orleans, stalking episodes and failed associations with the CIA (regardless of the truth or untruth of conspiracy theories) all point to a man who could never find his place on this planet, anywhere. Conversely, check out LHO's Life Purpose: Big Shot with a Message. Was this how LHO saw his role in history? Or would his Life Purpose Inverse, Muted Small Shot, be closer to the truth? Jack Ruby rendered these questions largely unanswerable, but Lee Harvey Oswald's fingerprints offer tantalizing testimony to the inner workings of this mostly shadow figure who had such an effect on world history.

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Walt Disney

Life Purpose: Influential Artist
Life Lesson: Express Your Passions
Soul Initiation: Emotional Risk

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