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PREFACE

IN 1979, AT AGE twenty-seven, I had the good fortune to have a reading with a Shadow-Reader (Chayyashastri) in Mumbai, India. My life was at a crisis point; everything I had done until that moment no longer made sense to me. The kind savant told me many things about my life, past, present, and future, and the quality of what he related to me resonated so deeply that it changed my life forever.

Until then, I had been a mechanical engineer, but he told me I was going to do the same work as he did: reintroducing people to the lives they had forgotten. He instructed me to get ready for a new system to come into my life. I would write books that would introduce this system to the whole world, changing people’s lives forever. Within a week of having my “shadow reading,” I was introduced to palm reading by a very accomplished Indian gentleman. After a short illustration of all the features in hands, he insisted, “now practice!” And so my journey of reading for people commenced. In the following years, I experimented with all the wisdom traditions I could find, always anticipating finding “the system” that had been foretold.

It became apparent, when I found it in 1993, that the system was Human Design. Yet I had to wait till 2009, a full thirty years after that 1979 reading, for my first book to be published, Human Design: Discover the Person You Were Born to Be. A few years later followed the second book, The Book of Lines: A 21st Century View of the IChing, the Chinese Book of Changes, and now The Book of Destinies is the third book.

The 192 Life Themes in this book are drawn from dozens of writes and rewrites over twenty years with my life partner and coauthor, Carola Eastwood. This work has been refined from giving thousands of personal and partnership readings, along with intense study, periods of deep meditation, and moments of pure insight.

Just as a fine wine takes many years to mature and each sip is worth savoring, so I would recommend that you take in your Life Theme one sip at a time. You are not here by chance. There are no mistakes in the themes for this Universe. Let your Life Theme be a guide for you. — CHETAN PARKYN

WHEN I WAS NINETEEN, I lost my first child and developed a burning desire to find meaning in my life. As I stood on a cliff top one summer night and heard the lyrics of George Harrison’s song “My Sweet Lord” wafting through a nearby open window, a stillness came over me, and I prayed. Miraculously, my prayer was answered and I had a full spiritual awakening right into the heart of God, where I remained, in a state of indescribable bliss, for three days.

Filled with a desire to teach others about awakening into soul awareness, I began studying the world’s religions and ancient wisdom traditions. When I first discovered astrology I was amazed by its accuracy. After years of study, I became a professional astrological consultant, columnist, and teacher.

That, along with training in counseling psychology, became the foundation upon which I built a private practice. I loved my work and continually studied new modalities, sensing there was something more that could be profoundly instrumental in helping my clients. I just didn’t know what that something might be.

In 1998, I was introduced to Human Design, and I intuitively knew it was what I had been searching for. I was both dismayed and delighted to learn a simple truth about how my Human Design worked — dismayed because it had taken me so many years to learn this but delighted because now I had the key to relationship success.

My pursuit of learning Human Design also led me to meet my soul mate, Chetan, when I traveled to San Francisco to attend his class! As if orchestrated from a realm beyond our everyday awareness, our lives came together, not only into the soul-mate relationship I had long desired but also into a working partnership that has spanned almost two decades as we have cocreated a method to bring Human Design, and now the 192 Life Themes, to the world in an easy-to-understand way and help readers pursue a more enlightened and fulfilling life.

This book is written for you, our readers, and it is my heart-filled wish that you hear the song of your soul as you read about your Life Theme in the pages that follow. — CAROLA EASTWOOD