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How we express ourselves this week will reveal whether people are listening or not, as Monday and Tuesday's Aquarius Moon encourages us to be more assertive and clearer in our communication. We all have different styles, but if you're feeling like no one is hearing you, this is the time to explore alternate ways of getting your message out to others. The Moon cruises through Pisces Wednesday and Thursday, encouraging us to go deep within to evaluate our spiritual lives. As with our communication styles, this deep dive could reveal some changes we need to consider making. Our most productive days of the week will be Friday and Saturday under the Aries Moon, when our energy returns and our determination expands. We'll have to move with caution, however, as the planet Saturn will turn retrograde on Saturday. Typically cited as the planet of boundaries and restrictions, it tends to promote the opposite when it is retrograde. So for the next five months, we'll experience more freedom of movement and fewer blocks to our dreams. Sunday's Taurus Moon encourages relaxation and a somewhat lazy day. Let's keep our plans simple and just go with the flow.

10 Signs of Unresolved Past Lives, by Karen Joy

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Imagine you have been carrying a load for so long that you've gotten used to it. Unaware of the burden, you struggle along, fatigued, disenchanted, tripping over obstacles, and sometimes feeling like giving up all together. When you finally realise you are encumbered with this burden, a great irony awaits you: the contents that you are carrying are no longer needed.

You may be one of the many people on the planet who are in this situation. Would you want to know so you can set down your heavy load, free up some energy, and move forward with a lighter step?

Some people carrying past life traumas in their current life are being called to set them aside. But how do you know you are one of them? Read on to consider a list of ten signs, with explanatory examples, that may indicate you are carrying an unnecessary burden. You will sense if it is time to let it go.

1. Physical pain or discomfort, especially if persistent and with no obvious cause.
   A physical problem that has been present for many years may have its genesis in a past life. Two examples of this immediately come to my mind.One client mentioned in passing she had a painful knee. Over the years she'd suffered three accidents. Each time, the only damage occurred in her left knee, and she still suffered pain. Having three accidents that damaged the same knee struck me as statistically remote. Under hypnosis, she went to the origin of the pain, accessing a past life as a child. This young girl had been locked in her room for a period as punishment. From her upper floor window, she saw a beloved relative arrive. Climbing out of the window, she fell, damaging her knee so badly she eventually died in great pain. Once my client came to terms with this unexpected death, the pain in her knee completely disappeared.

   Another client lamented her partner's refusal to wear a tie to their upcoming wedding. She'd also noticed he recoiled if she placed her hand near his neck. When he came for a regression, he went into a past life. Full of guilt for causing the death of another, he'd hanged himself. When he finally let go of that life, he was gracefully met by the one who'd died. His guilt was washed away with his tears of relief. And his neck sensitivity was gone, never to return.

2. Anger or negativity towards others, especially if it is strong and pervasive.
   One client strongly disliked her husband's mother and sister. Right from the first meeting, she felt that they judged her. She could see how they fooled people, pretending to be nice when actually they were greedy and nasty. She wondered why they upset her so much. During her session, she recalled a past life where she had been fooled, lost a lot of money, and became bitter. She set out to fool people herself and take their money. She found she liked cheating others. "It felt like a win," she said. "I didn’t like being a victim, so I became a perpetrator." In that life she was poisoned by someone she had betrayed.In a later life, she completely shifted after someone duped and damaged her children. "It snapped me out of it, and I didn't want my children to be like me, either." Although this was positive progress for her soul, she missed something. By turning against all charlatans, she disowned an important part of herself, the damaged scammer from the past life.

   Once she realised what she had learned, she mentally embraced and thanked the scammer for teaching her this lesson. The scammer was at peace, feeling redeemed and accepted. Her feelings for her in-laws changed dramatically. They no longer bothered her. She understood them. They were just at a particular stage of their soul journey.

3. Inescapable anxiety and depression.
   Although each case is unique, the following example is generally representative of those suffering anxiety, depression, or unresolved loss that is related to a past life.This client described her feelings. "I feel so stressed I could scream. I have no energy and see no hope for the future. I generally shut down, withdraw into myself and retire to my bed. Lately, I notice that the anxiety is much more constant that the depression."

   During the session, the client is taken back to being on this man's death bed. This time he senses his wife there with him. He opens and feels her love. "I didn't realise the depth of that love until the end. I had closed down. I hadn't realised how strongly she was with me through that life. Instead of feeling love, I shut everything out."

   Originally, he died alone in a state of loss, grief, isolation, and hopelessness. This emotional imprint had carried over into the client's present life. When he felt the love of his wife again, the client felt it, too. Her anxiety and depression lifted. She expressed how she felt: "I now have faith that I am loved."

4. Phobias, especially with no current life cause.
   One client reported that her baby, right from birth, screamed whenever water was placed on his head. Of course, he was too young to investigate the cause, but such behaviour is typical of a past life trauma.I have had countless clients with phobias who have died in past lives. Some, unable to swim or afraid of water, died from drowning. Others, afraid of heights, have fallen from cliffs or aircraft. Claustrophobia, needle phobia, darkness phobia, fear of death. These are some phobia clients suffered, which had their genesis in their past lives.

   When we investigate these cases, the person drowning is still fighting for survival, while the claustrophobic is still bricked up behind the wall. Unable to accept their death, these phobic people are still caught in their worst nightmare.

   Some resist their death, while many are oblivious to the fact that we survive the death of our body. Whatever consumed their focus at the end of that life creates a perceived reality, which persists in later incarnations. Rescuing these illusioned spirits is usually quick and easy, making a positive difference to clients in their current lives.

5. A pervasive sense of sadness.
   Sadness with no obvious cause can be debilitating. Other symptoms might be low energy, little motivation, or feeling weighed down while believing life is a constant struggle. In these cases, the original trauma is usually profound, unresolved loss. For example, one client was taken to a past life where she was a woman whose son had never come home from the Spanish Civil War. Even though he had probably died, the mother could not let go and accept the loss without knowing what had happened.In the regression, her spirit guide revealed his death. He was killed by one from his own side. It was a vendetta, revenge for something he'd done. The son, so shocked by his sudden death, had not passed over. Once he was freed, both the mother and son moved on.

   The mother's melancholy, which had been seeping into the client's current life, was now gone. All that sadness lifted.

    

6. Deep fear of public speaking.
   While most of us fear public speaking, some can overcome their fear by taking a practical public speaking course. Others find their dread remains. A traumatic past life could be the cause. Here is an example:In the past life, the client was a healer tortured to death by inquisitors wanting a confession with the names of associates. Although the healer didn't give anyone up, the client still felt the fear. "I feel this life is linked to me holding back, not sharing who I am and not being open. I am still terrified being found out." Coming to terms with this challenging life and horrible treatment was the beginning of the client overcoming her fear of publicly sharing her views.
7. Compulsive generosity.
   Compulsive generosity usually does not come from a previous life of poverty. More likely it comes from a need to prove we are good and worthy.One client lived a past life as the daughter of wealthy parents during the early 1930s depression. Knowing thta people were struggling to survive, she desperately wanted to help. She defied and rejected her parents to do so. Only when she died in a fire—together with poor vagrants—did she realise that her parents cared for her and would be upset. This was an epiphany to the client, who could see more clearly the nature of her compulsion to help others, both in the past life and her current life. She explained:

   "I think I have been trying to rescue people. There is arrogance in that. Instead, I am going accept where they are, and work with them to help themselves."

   Her charity wasn't coming from the heart; rather, she was trying to prove her positive worth. Genuine generosity needs no proof. It comes unconditionally and is not designed to rescue others from their soul lessons.

8. Feeling consistently disturbed over some situation.
   Sometimes we have a pet hate, or a compulsive dislike, which stirs us up emotionally. We might find ourselves angry at people who never say sorry. We might despise careless people who drink and drive. There are countless possibilities. Our strong emotional charge has a history and sometimes it involves a past life. Here is an example:A client was persistently angry at authority. He had problems submitting to instructions at work. He hated his son joining the cadets at school and having to be submissive. When his son nearly died in a motor accident, he became more open and vulnerable. He came for a regression, accessing a past life as a proud young man. Attracted to wearing a smart uniform, this young man signed up to go to war. On the battlefield in France, he felt strong and confident with a sense that he was doing the right thing. That changed soon after, when his unit was ordered to climb out of the trenches to go over the top. He was shot and, as he died, he saw his short life more clearly. "I am seeing the battlefield now, all these men dying. We have been used and tossed aside."

   His bitterness bled into his current life and manifested as a hatred of authority. During the regression, he realised he didn't have to go to war. He'd had other opportunities. His arrogance and pride had driven his decision to sign up. "I didn’t get the lesson, so I had to die. I could have made other choices." With this realisation, all the emotional negativity the client had felt towards authority drained away.

9. Powerful repetitive dreams.
   Past life issues can be resolved in our dreams. I personally have experienced this, as have many of my clients. Sometimes, though, the trauma in the dream is so overpowering we cannot easily resolve it ourselves. If you wake up terrified, you probably calm down by reminding yourself it was just a dream. When the dream keeps recurring, it may be related to an experience from a past life. Most probably, some incident in your current life has surfaced the issue.If you continue to feel disturbed, you may want to investigate your dream. Past life dreams are vivid, usually emotionally charged, and with a sense of reality about them. They are not Alice-in-Wonderland fantasies that couldn't happen in the real world.

   When we investigate dreams in the regressions, they do sometimes relate to a past life that needs to be resolved. Most people find that making sense of a puzzling or disturbing dream is a relief. When the client makes a necessary positive change in their life or attitude, the dream no longer recurs.

10. Feeling lost and filled with self-doubt.
    Nearly all of us doubt ourselves at times. We can sometimes feel confused, which is an uncomfortable state for humans because we have a body that we need to keep safe. Our need for security is especially strong when we believe our body is all we are. We know we will die, but we do not know when. This means we live our lives with a permanent undercurrent of uncertainty. How do we resolve our fear and self-doubt? Here is one example from my files.In this case, the client was taken to a past life as a child. The child had been ill and died. She refused to leave her body. Her spirit guides beckoned, telling her she was dead, but she didn't believe them. They coaxed her gently, helping to calm her. Taking her by the hand, they led her towards a light, which was shining in a midnight blue sky, peppered with twinkling stars. She still felt lost and confused. A comforting presence gathered her up and lovingly held her. They pointed out she is safe. She relaxed, knowing all is well.

    Her guides explained that many people, at the end of their life, fail to realise taht their physical body is dead. They are stuck, feeling lost, confused, and uncertain, not knowing where to go. The client realised that the child's self-doubt had been manifesting in her current life, intensifying any self-doubt she entertained.

Past life trauma can have a dramatic effect on our current lives. In my book, Lost Soul, Wise Soul: How Challenging Past Lives Shape Our Future, I explain why these past life emotional energies bleed through into our current lives. There is a purpose. When, however, you feel called to seek resolution of a past life issue, any purpose has already been served. The carried-over trauma is now just baggage holding you back. Once you let go, you feel lighter, more energetic, more confident in yourself and your endeavours.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2022. All rights reserved.

My sister committed suicide, and someone told me that because of this, she must be an earthbound spirit stuck on the astral plane. Is this true? I know that suicide has traditionally been viewed as a big sin. Do you believe this reflects some higher spiritual truth? I'm very worried about her, and would love your advice on how to contact her and make sure she is okay.

- Jan

Dreamchaser:

This is a really touchy subject for me because my birth family sister killed herself, and I have seen the devastation this wrought on the rest of the family.

I have stated many times in this column that King James mistranslated or altered the Christian Bible so that he could control the population. I think he was the one who decided to make suicide a "mortal sin."

I also believe that big questions like this do not have cut and dried answers. Issues this complex are never black and white, so I think it's wise to consider each case individually.

For example, let's think about soldiers from the Civil War. When soldiers on the front line were moving forward into hand-to-hand combat, they could probably assume that their lives were going to end. Japanese kamikazi pilots from World War II knew when they stepped into their cockpits that they were going to their deaths. Are these not forms of suicide?

What about the Jews that moved up to Masada and killed themselves so that the Romans could not take them alive? That was considered a brave and honorable thing to do. Hari Kari is another form of suicide that is considered an honorable death.

Not every soul that commits suicide is punished. I also do not believe that every soul that commits suicide is stuck in the lower astral plane, or becomes earthbound.

I do believe that in most cases, that soul is taken to a "classroom" type setting, and looks at what happened in the life that they chose to leave. I have also heard from Spirit that the souls of those who commit suicide reincarnate rather rapidly, and are put right back into another life that has the same challenges as the life that they tried to leave behind.

I believe that suicides' paths after death depend on their intentions in taking their own lives. I also think that a soul's journey and lessons are sometimes too complex for our human minds to comprehend, and I feel that this is one of those cases.

No one really knows why my sister killed herself. No one who knew her can figure it out. I feel that she just got tired of the constant struggle that her life had become. It was selfish and thoughtless for her to take her own life, of course, but it was HER decision at the time.

I do not feel her soul will be held in some awful place because of that decision. I do not feel that YOUR sister's soul will be punished as a result of her decision.

I expect that her soul will be forced to look at the decision and why she chose it. I also think that she is going to have to come back and do it again and again and again until she gets that part of her soul's lessons right.

I wish you peace with this horrible situation.

*****

Astrea:

I'm so sorry for your loss. Nothing feels worse than losing someone you love in this way.

Though some suicides become earthbound, most go on to Heaven and wait to be born again. Your sister certainly is NOT bound to this earth in any way, though she may choose to return to "check" on you and the rest of your family from time to time.

Over the years I've learned that no matter what earthly experience led suicides to take their own lives, it all instantly falls away from them when they die. They then travel on into the Light for a period of rest and reflection, just like everyone else.

It IS a bit harder for suicides to communicate with us at first, but in time, she'll come to you in dreams and talk to you again. Right now, it's HER guilt over taking her own life that prevents her from being with you. That takes time to heal, and is the worst of what she'll go through in the afterlife as a result of committing suicide.

The people left behind suffer from wondering much more than people who take their own lives. Suicide is a dreadful and horrible decision to make, and it's selfish when it is designed to punish others. "They'll be sorry when I'm dead" is SO TRUE. We're all SO SORRY that we couldn't make that person's life worth living.

The person dying isn't the true victim of suicide because she'll be fine. It's the rest of us who have to deal with that selfish act for the rest of our lives.

Obviously, people who take their own lives are caught up in profound suffering. While it's the ultimate arrogant act, and God certainly doesn't like it, God forgives it IMMEDIATELY. God is so all-forgiving and compassionate that even throwing their life away will not bar a person from Heaven.

Old superstitions still affect us subconsciously, and of course religions that seek to control us have many convinced that if we take our own lives, we'll be "out of the sight of God."

Perhaps that's true for a little while. I'm sure that like everyone else, your sister had a divine process to complete when she died. Then she went into Heaven - or whatever she perceived to be heaven when she was alive. For her, I'm sure it's very peaceful there, as she seems to have been very tired here.

I know you miss her, but you can still talk to her whenever you want. She hears you and she'll help you. It seems to have been a bit easier for her than some of the other suicides I've spoken with over the years. Please know that in saying that, I am not trying to make light of her choice or your suffering.

Let's face it: she was miserable here. She had family and friends on the other side, and they are helping her see herself clearly so she can join the light. She will get there for sure, but in the mean time, you can offer her your healing prayers.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.