Life Path Number 6: The Nurturer
The Life Path Number 6 is the path of balance.
With a Life Path Number 6, as a child and young adult, responsibility was always there, but you probably rebelled against it in some way. You may have felt overwhelmed by family or domestic responsibilities that you were too young to handle or take seriously. This changed as you got older, and those who knew you in your youth may now be amazed at your transformation into such a stable and responsible adult. Remembering your childhood attitudes and behaviors will help you to understand today’s young people, which is especially important if you have children of your own. If you do not, you will find that many of the adults in your life are, in some way, your children.
For the Life Path Number 6 individual, one way or another, parenting is a large part of what you have come into this life to learn about. Your purpose is to create, and to learn that creativity has many different forms. It is not confined to the creating, nurturing, and managing of a biological family. Creativity comes from the outward expression of what you are feeling inside. And, in your case, it is through your connection to your biological and extended family that many of your creative lessons will be learned.
Having a Life Path Number 6, your own parents, and the conditions in which you were raised, are likely to have a life- long effect on you. There may be many difficult lessons to learn in this regard. There can be a tendency to blame parents disproportionately, or, to feel accountable to them right into your adulthood, and even after they have passed away.
An an individual with a Life Path Number 6, it can be difficult to distinguish love from guilt and blame.
With a Life Path Number 6, it is important to learn that you are primarily accountable to yourself; that family members do not own each other, and that love thrives when it is able to flow freely in all directions, instead of becoming “snagged” on guilt, blame, or unmoving traditional beliefs. You do not enjoy situations in which your loyalty is questioned. Relativity is an important 6 lesson which is often learned through your associations with your relatives. Family relations are important to you, but it is your relationship to humanity itself, that you are here to learn about.
Old beliefs are discarded when you realize how irrelevant to our changing lives they have become. Each step you take is directly related to the last one you took and to the next one you will take. And, as your life’s journey advances in this step-by-step fashion, you will realize that although you are walking a path of responsibility, you are not responsible for everyone and everything you encounter.
If you have a Life Path Number 6, you are responsible for your own life and for those things, situations, and people you have created. When you are free of responsibilities that are not yours, your capacity to both give and receive love and compassion expands to the most beneficial and satisfying levels.
One of the principle lessons of the Life Path Number 6 is that of BALANCE. Imagine yourself walking along a path which is divided into three lanes. The middle lane contains the energies of love, peace, belonging, and understanding, and provides you with impressive abilities to teach, heal, create, nurture, entertain, and solve problems. On either side, however, are the extremes of life. These are made up of unresolved hatred, control, stress, conflict, cruelty, dependency, and misunderstanding. Although you will venture into the extreme paths from time to time, you will not be happy there and will yearn to get back to the stability and peace of the balanced center path. Therefore, you must seek and focus on love, peace, belonging, and understanding. These are the elements that will make your journey both outwardly and inwardly successful.
Having a Life Path Number 6, until you are aware of your triple path, and often after you are aware of it, the events and circumstances of your life can push you into extremes without your realizing it. You may often be handed situations which cause you to lose your balance and, inadvertently, sway toward one extreme or another.
Of course, anyone can walk a 3-lane path and stay centered if that is all they have to think about. But with a Life Path Number 6, yours is a more arduous test. As your life proceeds, you will amass responsibilities and circumstances which have to be identified, sorted, evenly distributed, and juggled, so that you can retain your balance. Many of your responsibilities will be pleasant, but some will not. Much of the “weight” you find yourself carrying will turn out to be the responsibilities of other people which have somehow landed in your lap.
6 gives you the power of MAGNETISM. With a Life Path Number 6, you will attract whatever you focus on far more easily than most others. Of course, this can have its drawbacks. Focus on danger, and you’ll end up in dangerous situations. Focus on nickels and dimes, and that’s all you’ll have. Focus on other people’s shortcomings and you’ll be surrounded by negative behavior. Look for problems and, believe me, you will find them. Try to focus on the good in other people by replacing old judgments and outdated beliefs with new and more realistic understandings. Seek peaceful solutions to all problems, and allow others to live their lives without your constant input and criticism.
With a Life Path Number 6, you are one of life’s natural entertainers.
People cannot help but be attracted to your exciting magnetic emotional aura. This is what holds their interest and attention. There you are, walking through life on a high-wire, perfectly balanced, totally at ease, and beautifully poised. Yes, of course you have a variety of safety nets securely in place beneath you. You are not stupid. You are responsible for yourself. This is why you are able to bounce right back again any time you fall.
For the Life Path Number 6 individual, there will always be others to help you regain your footing in life because once people get to know you, they enjoy watching your clever juggling act. What a show you can put on when you are balanced. What a brilliant display of inner beauty you exude when your self-expectation is high and you are judging your own steps instead of someone else’s. What a positive example you set when you are doing what you love to do in a state of balance. You are a superstar. Your personal world - perhaps the whole world - is your stage.
Sometimes we have to experience what we do not want from life in order to find what we do want. Having a Life Path Number 6, it is essential that you have a clear idea of what you desire from life - otherwise you will find yourself accumulating unwanted responsibilities simply because you were standing there with nothing else to do. Your sense of duty is so strong that it can be easy to assume responsibilities that are not yours. You may not want to ask someone to sort out their own mess because you may be afraid they cannot or will not do what they are supposed to do. But while you have unfulfilled dreams of your own, your need to volunteer must be curbed.
Having a Life Path Number 6, you will find far more ease in your life when you use your natural ability to teach others how to take care of their own needs; to be responsible for their own conduct; and that life is not a series of punishments but, rather, a series of consequences for judgments made and actions taken.
You cannot remain balanced on the Life Path Number 6 path while you are struggling with other people’s burdens as well as your own. You can also lose your footing if you become arrogant or greedy. A tendency to look for problems can cause you to neglect your own basic needs or to interfere in other people’s lives in the mistaken belief that you can, somehow, save them from themselves. It is a humbling experience when a 6 is told to “butt out” of someone else’s business, but this is likely to happen to you at least once in your lifetime. Others resent a know-it-all, dictatorial, and judgmental attitude. But you are unlikely to get lost in this extreme for very long. You need the stability of loving relationships. You pride yourself on giving sound and practical advice, and you can be deeply hurt when your input is ignored or belittled. You quickly learn the arts of listening, diplomacy, pertinence, and right timing. You learn that peace cannot be forced.
With a Life Path Number 6, you really want to understand things.
You instinctively know that it is impossible to understand something that you have not experienced. This applies to your relationships too. You can live a lifetime with someone without really knowing them because a barrier exists which prevents you from experiencing who they really are. Or, you can experience a total stranger and know this person immediately. The quality of your relationships is determined by the extent to which you let go of prejudgment and open yourself to the one- on-one experience of the individual involved.
For the Life Path Number 6, to understand is to familiarize yourself. Surely, then, familiarization within your own family is where this lesson begins. Life will teach you that rules, staunchly upheld traditions, and an inability to accept that everyone changes as their lives unfold, retards the life-long process of familiarization. And, as you now familiarize yourself with your 6 Life Path, you will start to realize the huge extent to which you desire to be familiar with so many different subjects, so many different people, so many different aspects of life. You came into this life to understand, and you would dearly love to understand it all.
As an individual with a Life Path Number 6, you are probably known for your solid responsible approach, and for your impressive problem-solving skills. You may not always welcome those who look to you for answers but, because your very nature is parental, you usually oblige them graciously as part of the “flock” that you must guide. But it is when you treat others not as the children they often appear to be, but as respected equals with whom love and pleasure is shared, or from whom you may have something to learn, that deep and meaningful relationships are formed.
With a Life Path Number 6, these experiences help to undo the misconceptions of your childhood. They provide you with realistic understandings of emotion and judgment, and how people’s individual energies effect each other. Throughout your life, you will form many relationships. Each will somehow effect the other, and this is where your balancing skills are often tested. Loyalty is one of your great attributes, until you must choose between two precious alliances. Ultimately, you learn that your relationships are your relationships and that not everyone in your “circle” is going to get along.
Your magnetism - your charisma - is what draws people to you in the first place. This gift is developed by exuding outwardly the desire for peace you feel inwardly. This desire - this intent - is an energy in itself which creates an aura around you that subconsciously tells others that peace is your objective. Others cannot help but respect you for this.
For the Life Path Number 6, by not taking sides but, instead, showing understanding and respect for all concerned, extreme situations can be avoided. This is not a matter of encouraging others to deny their true feelings when they are around you. Nor would it serve any purpose for you to stay neutral when your own beliefs or freedoms are being compromised. When your power of magnetism is used correctly, it has a calming effect which creates the desire for peace in other people too. You have the ability to calm even the most aggressive individuals. When you are genuinely in this balanced, peaceful, and non-judgmental place, you are able to spread peace to others and create an atmosphere of purpose, belonging, and mutual respect.
This is why you are often thought of as the stable one, the problem-solver, and the peace-maker. It is why you are able to command the respect of others even though they, themselves, may not be able to pinpoint why they respect you so much. When your friends become your family, they will want to help and protect you at all times. They expect you to succeed and are not only entertained by your successes, but are also anxious to learn something from your example.
As a Life Path Number 6, you have probably inspired more people than you are aware of.
Having a Life Path Number 6, there will, of course, be times when others turn against you - even hate you. These will be the times when you have strayed off the path of balance. Perhaps your ego has become inflated and you are trying to control or manipulate things. Others may turn against you when you are too opinionated, aggressive, bossy, interfering, irresponsible, or when you can only see one side of the story. Others become disappointed or even afraid of you when you lose sight of your own loving nature. But you usually do not stay in these dark places for long because you are far more comfortable in a peaceful and loving atmosphere.
As an individual with a Life Path Number 6, you will also encounter difficulties in relationships when your life becomes an “act” in which you preach peace and love while holding in - denying - your real feelings. You must be totally honest with yourself as to what you are feeling. You may believe that it is impossible to love if you are feeling hate. But the truth is that you cannot love genuinely if you do not express outwardly any hatred you may be holding inside. Remember that BALANCE is the secret ingredient of a very happy and successful life for you. It is impossible to remain balanced while carrying the weight of unexpressed feelings.
The Life Path Number 6 brings a complex energy in which stability and validation is often sought through the home, family, and community. It is essential to your well-being that you possess a clear sense of what these things mean for you, along with the understanding that others may not always agree with you. In order to stay balanced, an intimate sense of belonging is needed so that not only your home becomes the focus of your attention, but also the community in which your home is based. You are more at ease when there are clearly defined rules and traditions which embrace security and enable you to play a parental role within a larger “family”. But do not expect others to play by your rules. These are your safety nets.
Whether you admit it or not, with a Life Path Number 6, you want to be seen as a stable, responsible, and caring pillar of the community who will volunteer to help others when necessary. Many individuals with a Life Path 6 do not believe they are governed by tradition, conservatism, and rules until they realize just how much they are motivated by a sense of duty and a need to do the “right” thing. You may not be traditional in the broad sense of the word but, within your family and circle of close friends, there are many traditions you do not wish to let go of.
Having a Life Path Number 6, your home is your castle. You are responsible for it and for those who live there with you. You are the ruling monarch, chief care-giver, problem-solver, stabilizer, healer, educator, provider, and law-maker. You expect total cooperation from those closest to you, and you cannot understand when they do not see that everything you do is for them. But whether at home or at work, this attitude can cause unnecessary stress for you and others because guilt is experienced by everyone when you are not doing what you do for yourself. If this occurs, you may have overestimated your responsibilities but are denying that you are now overwhelmed by them.
Individuals with a Life Path Number 6 are often involved in situations where justice is questioned and analyzed, or where laws are staunchly upheld or defiantly broken. Be careful not to develop extreme approaches when it comes to justice and judgment, rules and regulations, right and wrong. It is here that many Life Path 6’s meet their downfall. In order to remain balanced, you will have to take a center position and assess the relativity of all factors. This is what the scales of justice were always meant to signify, proving that no law can be absolute.
With a Life Path Number 6, when you enforce your rules on other people, you lose your balance because you become dependent on their cooperation. Eventually, when they break free of your control, you realize how just unstable you have become. Then, your fear of losing your grip can produce dictatorial and tyrannical behavior in one extreme or, in the other extreme, a fearful and pessimistic approach creates an emotional paralysis which prevents you from creating the life you desire. In turn, this causes you to constantly seek the advice of so called experts, who may be even less informed than you, to tell you how to live.
For the Life Path Number 6, the mistakes that others make are an important part of your learning process.
The Life Path Number 6 individual should remember that it is not your responsibility to prevent others from making mistakes. Your marvelous teaching skills can provide the right level of protection. You are here to learn about and exemplify balance. It is from this standpoint that your true purpose can be fulfilled. Yes, home, family, and community have much to do with your aspirations. It is from these experiences that you will recognize that the world is also your home and that everyone on Earth is your family. It is only in a state of balance that humanity’s love can flow freely, and it is only in balance that humanity can survive.
Having a Life Path Number 6, you were born with judgmental tendencies for the purpose of learning how inaccurate judgment can be. You were born to experience control over others so that you can learn of its futility. You were born to take on responsibility so that you can learn about freedom and that it is not freedom from responsibility that you want but, rather, the freedom to take care of your responsibilities with ease. You were born with the gift of magnetism in order to attract others to your subtly entertaining example. You were born to create, so that you can understand life’s creative process and teach those understandings to others. You were born to make peace, so that life can continue.
Yes, the Life Path Number 6 can be a confusing path to walk at times; a path of changing realities, duties, and loyalties. But it can also be the most beautiful journey of all if your intent is to protect and beautify life. Remember that intent is such an awesome power. It is the fuel that drives you through life, and the gauge that sets your direction. No matter how many wars or misunderstandings you encounter, or even partake in, if your firm intent is for peace and understanding, the necessary lessons will be learned and the 6 Life Path will take you wherever you want to go. 6 is the Life Path of LOVE. It contains far more reward than you may have judged it to have.
