Goethe, in the first stanza of his ‘Orphic Sacred Words’ called ‘Δαιμων, Dämon', spoke of the law that would rule your life from the moment of birth. ‘Thus you have to be, your self you cannot flee.’  It is command and challenge, a task to reckon with. Rilke talks of ‘Auftrag’, something entrusted to you. ‘Many a star was waiting for you to perceive it. Many a wave would rise in the past towards you... All this was your calling (‘Auftrag’). But were you up to it?’  

Each of us has our own daimon, as the Greeks used to call it, the daimon being allotted to us at birth by fate indicating the true nature of the human soul. For Plato it is a spiritual being that dwells within us, watches over us and at times acts against us. Our task is to become aware of this power and to actualize what is given to us as potential.

Δαιμων, Dämon

Wie an dem Tag, der dich der Welt verliehen,

Die Sonne stand zum Gruße der Planeten,

Bist alsobald und fort und fort gediehen

Nach dem Gesetz, wonach du angetreten.

So mußt du sein, dir kannst du nicht entfliehen,

So sagten schon Sibyllen, so Propheten;

Und keine Zeit und keine Macht zerstückelt

Geprägte Form, die lebend sich entwickelt.

Goethe

Daimon

As on the day that gave you to this world

The sun stood to the salute of planets

From there on you grew and prospered

According to the law that was your calling.

Thus you have to be, yourself you cannot flee

So already Sibyls told, and prophets.

And neither time nor any power can tear apart

A formed character that lives and grows.

[translation C.C.]

See also ‘Ananke’ in the blog ‘Thoughts on Astrology’