Many people are on a life path that was determined by them, when they developed their Soul Contract for this life. But we are occasionally asked if that Life Path can change at any point during life. The quick answer is yes, but that does require somewhat of an explanation.
When the Soul Contract is developed, there are several goals for Life that are established, based on the karmic lessons that will be learned in Life, the people you will come in contact with during Life, and the number of possible Life paths that one incorporates into their Soul Contract. In actuality, there are many different possible Life Paths that are possible in any given Life. To better help visualize this, think of a Soul Contract as the trunk of a tree. From that tree, there are many different branches, and from each of those branches there are yet many more smaller branches. In the context of the Soul Contract, what is developed before every Life is this type of tree with each branch representing a different path in Life.
At the root, or base of each branch is a decision point – a place where a significant decision is made in Life, or a significant event occurs in Life. Each decision made in Life is a Free Will decision that is made by the individual, often with the knowledge and assistance of the higher self or the Spirit guides of the person. It is a point where the course of a Life has an opportunity to change.
With each path on the tree, there are many details that have been worked out, prior to Life, with the intent of satisfying the goals identified in the Soul Contract. A Life is not “planned out”, but many elements of the Life Paths associated with each branch have been arranged to support decisions intended to be in line with the Soul Contract. Events such as the people you would meet, major events in a Life, jobs one would have, and illnesses one might be susceptible to are all identified for each of the many paths, as well as agreements worked out with other Souls regarding interactions that could occur on each path.
People often do not consider the importance of Free Will in their possible Life paths. No Life is pre-determined, each Soul has only broad objectives with details to be worked out during the Life. Free Will is the enabling mechanism for this, and it is why each incarnation has so many possible outcomes (each represented by a different branch on the tree). The purpose of Free Will is to allow Souls to choose their own Life experience, and to have the possibility to experience as much of creation as they can in a given Life. Experience is earned, whether the experience is good or bad. The reason that existence took hundreds of Billions of years to come about was because of the Free Will experiences of the early Souls, and the learning that was associated with it. The creators felt so strongly about the value of these experiences (and the learning that came from them) that it became an integral part of the development of the Constructs.
It would have been much easier to have each Life follow a predefined script for each Life, where each of the lessons, and all of the possible outcomes, were selected for them. But that would not have allowed for consequences for making an inappropriate decision, or to have learned from that decision. Life would have been very different. But from a bigger perspective, each of those learning experiences benefits not just the individual Soul, but also creation; the thought processes involved help to provide insight into possible alternative decision processes that may not have been encountered by the Souls from the Central Sun. These can also be used to help refine the aspects of the Constructs to make both the Constructs, and creation as a whole, better.