Challenge Number Definitions

Challenge number definitions

9 does not appear in the challenges definitions number 0 takes its place.

0 Challenge Number
You are not personally involved enough with the betterment of mankind. You are intellectually aware of the problems and pain that is endured by those of us who are poor, sick, victims of famine, or other natural disasters, but you do not allow yourself to share in the experience.
You will be offered numerous opportunities to serve selflessly for good causes, and you should accept as many of these opportunities as you can realistically handle. Selfless service offers its rewards in intensely satisfying feelings of personal gratitude. Your happiness is closely connected to the experience of devotion to something larger than you. Only through service to humanity will you be able to feel connected and part of the whole of the human race.
Another aspect of the 0 challenge is the need to be without prejudice of any kind. For this reason, you will often be given the opportunity to deal with people of all different walks of life.


1 Challenge Number
You must learn to be independent. You will be forced to stand up for yourself and your rights. You will be faced with situations in which you will have to choose between defending what you think is right versus giving in to another person’s demands. You will have to struggle to strengthen and know your own willpower.
You will have to learn to be firm and trust your judgment. Don’t’ run with the crowd; be an individual. This whole lesson represents the frontiers of your consciousness. Therefore, you will have to experience much trial and error, sometimes exploding with bursts of aggression; at other times being intimidated and letting frustration and anger build within you until you are ready to act on your deepest instincts.
You will learn your own set of values; you will develop into an individual with original and innovative ideas.


2 Challenge Number
You are overly sensitive and too aware of other people’s expectations. You suppress yourself to avoid feeling conspicuous. You can be overwhelmed by self-consciousness. You fear gossip about you. As a result, you become inhibited. All of this results in a suppression of your own individuality and uniqueness. You yearn to blend into the crowd.
You let your own feelings and emotions play too big a role. Your hypersensitivity causes fear, timidity, and lack of self-confidence. You experience unnecessary fear and emotional turmoil.
Little things seem disproportionately difficult to overcome, and they sometimes have a paralyzing effect. Jealousy can cause much pain and misunderstanding.

These negative aspects of the challenge actually spring in part from positive characteristics you possess, especially your acute awareness and intuition. You are an antenna for other people’s feelings; you know before a word is spoken how they feel.
You lack the inner strength to maintain your own center, and you try to conform to the prevailing emotional atmosphere. This challenge makes you understanding and compassionate; you have an enormous empathy for the inner turmoil of others, and you can do much good for people with emotional problems.

3 Challenge Number
You are your own worst critic. You suppress your individuality and creativity. Each time you want to make an impression, you doubt yourself beforehand, and you criticize yourself ruthlessly afterward. Your criticism of yourself is far more severe than anyone else’s.
As a result, you tend to play it safe by staying on the surface, indulging in superficialities. You rarely express what goes on deep inside of you; instead, you cover up your feelings with humor or perfunctory remarks.
You often feel alone and lonely. Your fear of social interaction causes you to strain conversation by making too many jokes and forced joviality. It may help you to find a creative outlet for your imagination, possibly through writing, painting, singing, or dancing.
You must make an effort to bring out your true self. You will learn to truly value your own creative talents above anyone else’s judgments. This must be viewed as a process of individuation in which you become a whole human being, independent and free of the need to conform to others.

4 Challenge Number
You tend to be disorderly and disorganized. You are impractical and tend to fantasize about projects or possibilities that have little value of future. You must learn to discriminate between iron balloons and those that will fly.
You have difficulty finishing projects, because your vision becomes chaotic and loses track of the path ahead. You have to learn to be aware of the details. Keep your environment clean and orderly. Be efficient.
You have the ability to be practical and organized, but you must learn the value of these characteristics. This will cause you to incorporate them into your daily life and to give you the basis for success.
This is the Challenge of building a lasting foundation for your life. You will need persereverance and repeated effort. Get-rich-quick schemes will likely backfire; persistent effort is the key to your future happiness.

5 Challenge Number
You are in danger of becoming a rolling stone. Your desire to experience and enjoy life can overwhelm every other priority you have. Your need to freedom dominates you. You want to try everything and go everywhere. You must guard against overindulgence, and even dependence, upon alcohol, food, drugs, and sex.
You must work at establishing and maintaining long-lasting relationships. Be tolerant and understanding. This will enable you to have people in your life who are more than mere company.
You need to discipline your urge to change every situation that does not immediately suit you. Stick with projects; maintain your friendships; and don’t abandon people or situations the minute they become the slightest bit difficult.
If few 5s are in the chart, you have a fear of change and cannot let go of people and situations. This holds you in the past, restricting your growth. Learn to take prudent risks and be more adventurous.

6 Challenge Number
Your Challenge deals with distorted idealism. Your ideals are unrealistically high, making life difficult for you and others. You have a hard time being satisfied with anything you do, or with what others do for you. You lack gratitude. This prevents you from seeing the beauty in your life. You may also suffer from rigid thinking, which keeps you from having a clear perspective that would otherwise awaken you to the many good things you have received.
At bottom, this Challenge is about having blinders on. You are unable to see a broader view, which makes you think you have all the answers. This keeps away information and perspectives that would be helpful to you.
Your desire to be of service to others is sincere. However, it may be blocking you from seeing the necessity of working on your own inner development.
You can be domineering and righteous, often telling others what is right and what is wrong. You often feel a lack of appreciation from others.
There is an opportunity to be of service, to teach and to heal, but you will have to achieve a balanced perspective between your idealism and your resistance to personal transformation.

7 Challenge Number
You are highly skeptical of anything that cannot be proven to you. You are particularly doubtful of anything having to do with spiritual matters. Therefore, it is difficult for you to find a personal philosophy that would give you peace of mind and insight into the purpose of your life.
You repress many of your natural inclinations, because they do not fit into your intellectual or rational thinking. You are in need of the part of your being that you are now repressing: the child within.
All the characteristics that have to do with the irrational and holistic side of life – spirit, humor, playfulness, and intuition-are being shut out. Your challenge is to find some philosophy, and, ideally, a community that will give you additional perspectives, and force you to bring out the many other characteristics that are a fundamental part of you. Otherwise, you risk loneliness and isolation.
You have to learn faith. When you consider that most of life is made up of the invisible world-thoughts, emotions, insight, and love-you can begin to appreciate that only a small part of life is within the domain of your senses.
You may have too much pride. You may experience a deep and humbling transformation that will set free the inner being you are keeping trapped within you.

8 Challenge Number
You risk money and power the main priority in your life. Your desire for financial wealth threatens to obscure your other human characteristics and spiritual well-being.
This challenge causes financial concerns to overwhelm all other needs, and influences everything you do. You risk the fate of Midas, turning everything into gold, yet isolating yourself from other parts of life.
For many with this Challenge, there is a danger of becoming so obsessed with materialism that they may be tempted to ruthless and unscrupulous business practices, possibly crossing the borders of the law, and causing themselves and others much misery.
You are facing a very real spiritual test in which you must realize that “man does not live by bread alone.” If you overcome this hurdle, you will achieve real spiritual and material balance. You can make yourself a powerful river, bringing an inexhaustible supply of nourishment to all, rather than a lake, whose nature is limited and can easily grow stagnant, and can no longer support life.