Firstly I do believe that we have some control over our destiny. Since we have choices every day and those choices impact our lives changing our destinies momement to moment. I at the time had not decided to follow this course of action in fact the cost of it still irks me.
It answer was to a high think tank questions intended to solve a problem in the present. However it told me to be patient that there was nothing I could do for the time being because there are a number of factors outside of my understanding that I didn't know. That I will do something significant on that day that will be in answer to my question.
I think the fact that my inner mind knew this and knew some aspects of where I was headed given the current trend from the choices that I had made to date. Is significant. To inform me in this way because neither my conscious mind nor my intuition were able to give me this significant piece of information. It teaches me to trust the inner mind's knowing more and more.
As youngprer pointed out knowing this allowed me to be prepared. The fact that the contract arrived on that particular date confirmed for me that I had made the right decision when I decided to proceed with this endeavour. It would have been very easy for me to have second thought.
Alex