Six images. One of them holds you longer than the rest — and that is the one that says the most.
One photograph can pass your eye in seconds while another stays in your mind all day. A temple high in the mountains, a road into the unknown, a bridge over a deep valley, a small room with a window onto the snowy peaks — you look, and suddenly you feel it: “I want to be there.” Behind that wish there may be tiredness with your present rhythm, a need for change, a question that has been waiting a long time for an answer, a longing for silence, or the sense that you are ready for the next period of your life.
The events in Nepal over recent days have turned attention back to the Himalayas and to the roads along which people have set out for centuries carrying prayers, questions, hope and the wish to understand something important about themselves. The mountain changes the scale. Among the vast peaks, the old temples and the paths walked by generations before us, everyday worries look different and what we have been postponing starts to be heard more clearly. This test was born out of that thought: when you dream of finding yourself far from home, what are you actually looking for there?
This test is for you if lately you have been browsing distant countries more often, if the thought of leaving attracts you, if you feel a need to change the view, or if you have reached a point in life where the old route is no longer enough. Everything around you may look fine and you may still feel something missing. You may be facing a decision, closing an old story, thinking about a new life, or simply wondering why a certain place draws you so strongly when you have never been there.
The six images lead to six different reasons a person might want to leave. Your choice will show you what you are looking for far from home, which part of your present life is speaking through that longing, and how you can use the discovery right away. Every result carries on with a practice, a meditation or a small ritual, because “yes, that is me” is pleasant, and it gets far more interesting once you know what to do with the information. A ticket to the Himalayas remains a magnificent plan, though as a method of life diagnostics it comes with a rather serious transport fee.
And if after your result you want to take one more step, the FatedWays Game of the Soul was made for exactly such moments — when you already sense that something is changing and want to understand where it is leading. In Signs you can follow the repetitions and coincidences you cannot get out of your head, in The Crossroads you can look more closely at the decision in front of you, and in Letting Go you can see what it is time to leave behind. If your question concerns a longer period and direction, The Celestial Teacher can add the astrological view. The test can be the first door, and after it you choose how far you want to go in the Game of the Soul.
Look at the six images and imagine that tomorrow morning you could wake up in one of them. The day is entirely yours, nobody is waiting on a decision from you, and you have enough time to stay.
Which image caught your eye first? Where did you want to be before you started weighing up whether it is beautiful, comfortable or sensible?
Choose only one image, from 1 to 6. If two attract you equally, imagine you have a ticket for only one of them and have to decide now. That usually shortens the internal board meeting rather successfully.
Then open your result and see what you are looking for far from home, and why this question has become so important to you right now.
Touch the image that holds you — and it opens right here, below.
You are drawn to far-off places where time seems to move differently. An old temple, a mountain monastery, a path walked by generations carrying a prayer or a question, can wake in you the sense that there is something more behind the visible. At a certain point in life you begin looking for the answer to a question that hardly fits between work, the bills, the meetings and those conversations that open with “just a minute” and somehow cost you half an hour: “What am I actually doing all this for?”
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When you look at a distant road, a bus, a plane ticket or a small settlement somewhere beyond the familiar world, the thought comes easily: “What if I just left?” It can arrive after a hard stretch, after too many obligations, or after that particular feeling that everyone around you knows perfectly well what you should be doing with your life. One expects something, another has advice, a third needs you, a fourth calls exactly when you had decided to be alone, and your phone has evidently signed a contract to keep you informed about everything, including matters of no interest to you whatsoever. In a moment like that, the far-off place starts to look like a door.
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Your choice is the bridge, and that is a very accurate image for the period you are in. There are times when life on the outside carries on much as before, while inside you the change has already happened. You do the same tasks, meet the same people, answer the same questions, and you can probably look quite convincingly like someone who knows exactly where they are going. Only you can feel that part of the story has ended, and that going back to the previous version of your life would be harder than setting out towards the next one.
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With you it can all start quite innocently. You hear the name of some place in a conversation, a few days later you come across a photo, then someone mentions the same country, and in the evening you open a book and the very same temple looks back at you from the page. By the third or fourth repetition you are already glancing upwards with that mildly suspicious expression: “All right, I understand you are hinting at something. Could the instructions come in a slightly larger font?” Coincidences like that make you listen more carefully to what is happening around you, because you sense that certain images, words and places turn up at exactly the right moment.
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Out of the six pictures you chose the place where almost nothing happens, and that is probably exactly what drew you. A window, a mountain, tea, a book, and enough distance between you and the rest of the world. No schedule, no next meeting, nobody opening a sentence with “can I just ask you something”. To someone else a picture like that would look dull. For you, in this period, it may look like five-star luxury, especially if switching the phone off is included in the price.
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The interesting thing about you is that out of the six images you chose the person who is heading home. In the distance there are houses, lights, people and a road coming down from the mountain towards the inhabited world. That is a very accurate image for your result, because there is a wish in you to go away for a while, see your life from another height, and then open your own door again with a clearer idea of how you want to live behind it.
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