Up: [[Calling]] Created: 2022-02-08 We each have an individual [[Daimon]], a soul guide who accompanies us through our life, knows our calling, and helps us to fulfill it. > [!Orbit] Plato in *RepublicX*, 620e > When all the souls had chosen their lives, they went before Lachesis. And she sent with each, as the guardian of his life and the fulfiller of his choice, the [[Daimon]] that he had chosen, and this divinity led the soul first to Clotho, under her hand and her turning of the spindle to ratify the destiny of his lot and choice, and after contact with her, the daimon again led the soul to the spinning of Atropos to make the web of its destiny irreversible, and then without a backward look it passed beneath the throne of Necessity. ![[Myth of Er.webp]] Necessity was the goddess Ananke, the mother of the Fates. Once we are given that necessity, we move on to the Plain of Oblivion. That’s where we will drink from the River of Lethe, which is the river of forgetfulness. So that, when we are born, we don’t remember our purpose in life. The Myth of Er ends Plato's book. Er dies, is placed on a funeral pyre, coming back to life just before the fire is lit. He tells of his time in the afterlife. This story begs the question, [[Calling is Neither Destined Nor Fated]]