There are a couple of people that I turn to when I feel down and out, or when I have questions, the way some of you turn to me, and I was remembering something one of them told me last year —
She had seen an ancestor or spirit guide of mine. She wasn’t sure what it was, who it was. She described him to me. Didn’t sound familiar but I never forgot it.
Flash forward a year and I’m dealing with a noisy neighbor and suddenly a certain phrase, along with an accompanying visualization, comes to mind.
If I don’t write things down, I forget them, and today I remembered this phrase (out of the blue) as well as the visual as I was dealing with noise again (from someone else).
I decided to look on-line — that maybe this… spell, incantation, this action that I was “doing,” this magic that I was engaging in (to shush the noisy person) has a history of some kind.
And it does — in various streams of folk magic. Now I have no idea if this spirit guide is related at all to my knowledge of this ritual and yet the two are linking in my mind. I think there is a connection.
In my internet research I also discovered that this thing I was doing (what I was visualizing) was meant to cleanse the person which I found interesting because here I thought I was just seeking quiet but it turns out that my higher self had a higher purpose.
I do believe in past lives although I don’t think about it that much. I’m more obsessed with the here and now. Perhaps it is time to reverse this focus.
Last year I had a fixed-star astrology reading which convinced me that I’ve done this work before, in previous lifetimes. And oddly enough later that week another astrologer (who I’d not consulted for a reading) wrote to me out of the blue because they’d thought of me and also talked about fixed stars.
How in touch are you with your past lives? Do you get clues? Or is it very clear?
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21 thoughts on “Do You Believe In Past Lives?”
I have two things that made me think about past lives… One is the strong feeling of “belonging” I get everytime I look at a picture of Native American indians. I felt it since the first time I saw an image of a Shaman when I was a kid. I just feel a connection to these people and their history, and it’s funny, cause I’m not even American!
The second thing is a recurring dream, which I’ve had like 4 times since I was 14 (I’m 22 now). I’m driving by the ocean and there’s this huge stone wall by my side of the road. The feeling I get is that I have to rescue someone, really have to go somewhere, just do something important. My mother was present in some of those dreams – once she was driving with me and then disappeared, the other time she seemed to be up there, on the other side of the wall, so I felt the need to rescue her.
One day, out of the blue, my mom asked if I had any recurring dreams, and I told her this. She was doing some research at that time because she also had recurring dreams. Her dreams turned out to be almost the same as mine, but in hers she was stuck in a castle and could only see a window with the ocean ahead, waiting to be free from her imprisonment. Her research online led her to discover an island in England which was very similar to what we saw in the dream. There are legends there about a princess who was locked in her room and died there, suffering. I thought it was really cool to know this, even if we couldn’t quite understand what it all means.
Since we made this discover I never had this dream again. This past year I’ve been having a LOT of dreams with water and the ocean, but then I read some articles where it said it could mean the proximity of the Age of Aquarius. I still don’t know what to make of it, though.
Thanks for sharing all that, Carol. It’s fascinating to me–
Hmmm – lots of excitement here in response to your thoughts ;-). We were raised with the idea of re-incarnation and i’ve had dreams, past-life regressions (some easier to ‘see’ than others), along with readings and ‘knowings’ of my own. My daughter is a Shamanic practitioner and she has had some interesting past-life revelations – about herself and others. Also, we’ve become Tibetan Buddhist practitioners and that is a given therein.
I never thought about it much till I met my first husband. It was an instant recognition, like “where’ve you been all this time” I KNEW I knew him from before. Long story after that, but was also why things became so difficult. it’s hard to deal with that kind of intensity, and then to process the meaning – why did this happen this time, kinds of questions come up. What was it about. I love that LB’s experience led her to find her sister. I wish I could make sense of my experience.
Oh I know that feeling – all that processing. Can be exhausting.
Maybe some things are meant to be mysteries
Went to a past-life regression practitioner once and I had images of being a male tribesman somewhere in Asia thousands of years ago. My husband and twin sister in this current life were my best friends in that incarnation. Our village burned down one day and we were the only survivors because we were away hunting. I’ve always had a terrible fear of fire ever since I can remember as well as being terrified of losing my family.
My twin chickened out the day of our session–she was convinced there was something horrifying she would to remember and re-live.
Who knows if this is true but it sure was an interesting experience.
I’m sure you have been doing astrology work forever too–you have an innate ability it seems. So cool!
xoxo
Wow Sara, fascinating. Love these stories. About astrology… I always had an interest but didn’t study it until I was in my 30s. I did take to it though. Felt like my natural other language 🙂
To take it further maybe the people you work with, your clients, are people you’ve known before?
The possibilities are endless!
xoxo
Fascinating thought, Sara! I wonder… I’ve worked with so many people already…
oh and maybe you’ve read for us, many times, over many lives!
k, that is such a freaky thought…. like… I cannot wrap my mind around that one. What if? Whoa!
like a mind bending novel!
I had a psychic reading in Sedona and a past life as a Nazi soldier came up. I used to read books about the Holocaust obsessively and become upset afterwards. She said I needed to stop torturing myself. The obsession started after Catholic grade school. The Nuns showed us a video of the horrific atrocities of The Holocaust and I had nightmares. Found out this past year my parents never knew they showed such a video. Any movies showing torture makes me ill on all levels, I cannot bear it.
Shortly after the psychic session I had a spontaneous look and healing into that life during a Reiki class healing. I saw myself as that man and he looked so desolate and despondent – I felt it so deeply. I cannot put into words how it really felt. It was like those progression photos or drawings that “move”, with his face getting brighter and happier as the Reiki energy flowed. I remember the black boots and walking on gravel hearing and feeling the crunch under my feet. I tried to help where I could in that life, but couldn’t see a way out of the horror all around. I was suicidal. I’m glad I had the opportunity to heal him.
On a side note, there were these black boots by Puma I was drawn to and it wasn’t because I “wanted” the boots, it was because they looked similar to what I wore in that life. I was also very handsome. I have other lives. I was also a black woman and a prostitute in NYC in the 70s.
One of my favorite subjects, glad you brought it up.
Turkeybat, amazing stuff. Was just telling Sara on this thread, I love these stories. I’ve never had a past life regression. If I knew of a trustworthy practitionner, I might. Then again, a good Tarot reader or other psychic reader/medium could do the job perhaps… I don’t have any clear feelings about my past lives… but my Venus South Node/12th House gives me some clues.
I *think* I remember several, even received my previous name during a dream last year when transiting Saturn was conjunct my North Node. When I woke up, I googled the name and discovered some of her (my) ‘story’ on a genealogy site – it even listed her birthdate (our BM Liliths are *exactly* conjunct). Reading about her early life helped me to make sense of some of my issues. Within a week or two, it all disappeared and I haven’t been able to find any record since.
It’s a long story, but the dream also led me to find a sister in this life, a secret my mother kept from everyone for over 50 years. It wasn’t the first time understanding something of a past life led to a significant discovery in this one.
That’s amazing, LB. A relative of mine kept a similar secret.. for less time but still….
I think those kinds of secrets can be very toxic. My mom passed without saying anything, although I always sensed it. After she passed, she came through loud and clear with healing messages for both me and my sister. I felt her strong emotions as if they were my own – not that much different from when she was on this side, only now I understood what was going on. My mom’s Saturn was conjunct my North Node and opposite her 8th house Chiron (my South Node), so it was funny how her secret came out during her post-mortem Saturn Return . . . guess she didn’t want to carry such powerful unresolved issues into her next life!
Forgot to mention something else that was pretty amazing (astrologically speaking). The Sun was conjunct my mom’s 8th house Chiron (and my 8th house SN) the day my elderly uncle confirmed my suspicions about my having a sister. It was his birthday; his Sun shed light on my past and my mom’s painful secret. It also made my family realize my ‘gifts’ were for real.
My attempts to develop my North Node, and get over my South Node, are the closest I am to touching any past lives. Just feelings and general impressions from where I’ve been, no specifics. Maybe some flashes of clarity sometimes, that I have forgotten over time….haha, Neptune ruler!
A fun thing to try to stir up…