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The first day of April starts out with Mercury turning retrograde, a sure sign that it's time to go back and review or restructure current plans. For the next three weeks, watch for electronic glitches, last-minute cancellations, and having to do things over at least twice before they stick! Monday and Tuesday's Capricorn Moon will give us the energy to barrel through any annoying glitches and get a lot done. However, come Wednesday and Thursday, an Aquarius Moon will surely upend our plans and call for lots of flexibility and patience! Venus will move into Aries on Thursday, heightening romance and passion for the next four weeks. We may be prone to making promises we can't possibly keep, so try to put some boundaries around your words during this cycle. We'll drift along peacefully under Friday and Saturday's Pisces Moon, but don't plan on getting much done until Sunday, when the Moon dives into Aries and reminds us of all the things we've been procrastinating on. The message is clear, “Just do it!”

Spiritual Regression: Why Are You Here? by Brynn Blankinship

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Spiritual regression is a great way to resolve inner conflict through deeper self-awareness to begin moving forward in your life rather than staying stuck and not knowing why. As a transpersonal hypnotherapist, clients arrive at my office seeking guidance or answers to questions they have about themselves and their place in this world. Often, they are feeling overwhelmed and in need of spiritual recharging, or are searching for clarity and purposeful direction in their lives. While a past life regression alone can be a cathartic experience, identifying and clearing karmic carryover from a lifetime or two, it often isn't enough to provide the deeper answers to their life's mysteries for which clients are searching.

Through thousands of session hours with hypno-regression clients, I developed a technique called Soul Expression Spiritual Regression (SESR), as a way to achieve a great alignment with one's soul. A SESR session ("assessor") offers an assessment or review of your current life permitting the magnification of your soul in the current mind and body. SESR strengthens the connection to your soul's innate wisdom and provides a current life assessment, giving you a clearer sense of who you are, your unique gifts, and what you are here to do.

SESR helps you identify and review the past and future simultaneously from the perspective of the current life with direct guidance from your soul and spiritual team to find and follow your soul's guidance, identify negative patterns, and move through issues more quickly by allowing you direct access to yourself. Each session is unique, but what clients have in common is that they each bring to light information in such a way that they are able to resolve long-standing issues to move past previous limitations and feel freer. It's a way to re-discover your life's purpose and take more responsibility in your life in knowing that you are here by design, not by accident, that you are loved, and that you are not alone.

You are here on purpose, for a purpose. Armed with this wisdom, you are able to better navigate your life and call upon help from your spiritual team in a true partnership with them. Your spiritual team gives guidance from their respective vantage points. Your Soul Advisory Team offers the bigger picture, especially in pre-birth planning, while spiritual guides and teachers offer assistance with the details of making that happen. It's your role to stay open to the assistance being given so that you can accomplish what you came to Earth to do while improving the relationship with yourself through your soul's various incarnations. All events are part of the divine plan…the perceived good and the perceived bad. It's part of the duality of this earthly realm.

In my book, The Limitless Soul, are a collection of case studies from actual client sessions revealing the complexities the soul faces by design throughout its many incarnations, and how revisiting certain times in your soul's history can provide insight and release energetic blockages that are impacting your current life incarnation. It is a chapter-by-chapter look through the eyes of clients in deep trance at different past life and afterlife cases to explore many aspects of a soul's incarnations, showing that life is not a random series of events. Souls learn with each lifetime. As one spiritual guide states, "No life is wasted; there are lessons in every kind of life."

The clients in The Limitless Soul sought insight into the mysteries of their existence and earthly lessons for their current incarnation, and their sessions carry messages with universal appeal. Each chapter includes practical soul-minded exercises for the reader to begin their own process of awakening to soul.

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 7, "The Gifts You Brought with You," where we explore the preplanning aspect of the current life incarnation and how it influences current life decision-making as well as provides skills and abilities needed to fulfill the life you are currently living. Many of my clients experience in session what Claire so eloquently describes here while in a deep trance state.

Claire is interested in SESR to explore and recharge. "I want to be aware of the afterlife in this plane, hold a little piece of it in my heart, and let it recharge me," she shares. What follows reveals that all lives have meaning. Your existence affects others one way or the other simply by your having been here.

The SESR session begins. Floating along the current of her soul's consciousness, Claire moves to the womb close to the time to be born. Claire's spirits are high. She's coming to bring enthusiasm. It's needed on Earth and she happily signed up for it. Her time is spent floating, sleeping, and planning what she'll need for the life that is coming.

Suspended there, she receives information that flows directly into her cells. These instructions are sent from "home"—from that place where they help you build your "suit with your traits that you're going to be," Claire explains.

She reveals that the soul helps create the part of the suit where you agree what you'll be. Then the ones who help you in pre-birth planning tell you how that will happen and the traits and personality that go with that. It's talked about, planned, and designed by them for you before you incarnate. They're like tailors. They take what you're planning to come for and make a suit for you to wear. The suit has the memories in it that activate later when you need them.

"You can't see the suit," she explains. "At different times it will help you to do what you're supposed to do, like how you see the world... It's on the inside. It's what makes you laugh at some things and not others. It's hooked in. It's the suit you put on to get born and has all you need in it... it's your 'Birthday Suit.'"

Next Claire moves through a doorway and directly into the cosmic realms. Her guide, appearing as a ball of light, patiently takes her along this pathway through the stars, so she can feel them and absorb the atmosphere here.

Claire becomes aware of others and is curious about her soul group, those souls who incarnate together playing different roles in one another's lives throughout their various incarnations. She recognizes several from her current life.

Continuing to the Soul Awareness Area, things she has done are playing on a big viewing screen. Claire explains, "Everything is here and there is information everywhere—who you are and who you always were...it's all here, backward and forward from all of your lifetimes."

I am reminded that Earth is an emotional planet. It's where souls come to experience the range of emotions. Half the battle of existing on this planet is managing one's emotions. Claire is told that emotional help is needed on Earth. "There are many changes coming our way on Earth…I'm to help with compassion…" she reveals. "Lots of different people will soon be helping...teams of them...the pulse of all the spirits are all changing."

She's shown a heartbeat that speeds up and slows down. A piece is placed in her heart to hold as a reminder while shifting her vibration for the work she's to do.

In Soul Reflection, she recalls a past life where she had not spoken up for someone and it cost him his life. She punished herself by living out her days alone in a cave. In her current life, she has the opportunity to overcome this karmic carryover.

Claire's guide signals that itis time to visit her Soul Advisory Council, wise beings like a special committee, that support souls with their incarnations. Five white, light beings are waiting for her. She feels nervous to be in their presence. They are pleased with her and tell her they hear her when she asks and are helping. Her guide adds, not to worry so, her "birthday suit" has what she needs!

Following the session, Claire seems stronger and with less self-doubt, and her energy field looks bright. She has a clearer sense of purpose and understanding of her uniqueness as a soul and as the person she is now, finding solace in knowing her connection to the divine plan. She knows it is okay to speak up more and use her voice, and that she was born with everything she needs. She looks great and feels grateful to be charged up!

No matter the path that leads them to my office for SESR, clients like Claire are seeking a deeper understanding of their earthly existence. Empowered with the self-knowledge of who you truly are, you can move forward, comforted in knowing that your spiritual team is always with you to help them succeed.

When given glimpses into the spiritual realm you see that we're all here as part of the bigger plan. As you consider your own role in the divine plan, connecting with your useful purpose brings happiness and contentment when you are doing what you came here to do. The following exercise can help you uncover your unique gifts and begin to explore your part in it.

Soul-Minded Journaling: Recognizing Your Unique Gifts, Skills, and Abilities
Use this journaling exercise to discover and identify your own gifts and abilities. Take time to really look at yourself objectively to uncover the unique qualities you possess that perhaps you take for granted because you've always done them naturally.

1. Look to you childhood to the kinds of things you enjoyed doing without being told to do them. Were you afraid or curious? Outgoing or shy?
2. What gifts, skills and abilities do you possess? Do you recognize the gifts that make you special? What's unique to you that you bring with you wherever you go? Do people find a sense of comfort in your presence or do they laugh at your unique perspective on things? Are you a good listener or naturally organized?
3. What do others tell you they admire in you? Identify the special gifts you bring to your relationships and interactions with others.
4. What ways can you improve on strengths you naturally have, or overcome areas where you are deficient? What would you like to improve on? What abilities have you cultivated in yourself that you once admired in others?
5. Are you comfortable expressing who you are? What experiences or situations are keeping you from feeling comfortable being your true self?
6. Is your energy open and inviting, or restrictive and closed off? Find ways to boost your "birthday suit" to make your energy field fresh and new again! What makes you light up? What brings you joy?

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2019. All rights reserved.

For several years, I've been using horoscope books I bought to calculate my natal chart and those of friends. I have no obvious psychic skills, so I rely on the books' interpretations for the meanings of the planet placements, etc. Sometimes they make sense, and sometimes they don't. Can you give me any advice or recommend a book that would be more helpful? My friends and I do this strictly as entertainment, but it would be lots more fun if we could be a little more accurate.. Thanks for any help you can offer.

- Sue

Dreamchaser:

I've found the easiest way for a layman to read a chart is to break it down bit by bit. When you look at the chart, the upper half signifies the outside world, and the bottom half signifies the inner world.

If most of someone's planets are in the upper part of the chart, then most of the work they are to do in this life is in the outer world. They'll tend to live in the outer world more than they go inside of themselves. On the other hand, if someone's planets are mostly in the lower half, they tend to be introverted, and won't show too much of themselves to the outside world.

Once you've explored the general placement of the planets, start to break down the houses, which are the tiny numbers in each "pie piece" of a chart. Here's a basic overview:

The First House governs physical appearance, the personality and general temperament of the person.
The Second House rules the family survival dynamic and deals with basic security issues.
The Third House deals with brothers, sisters, neighbors and the people one interacts with often.
The Fourth House deals with the influences found in the early home, and the parent who has the greatest influence on us.
The Fifth House deals with fun, games, gambling, playing, acting, drama, theaters, stages, hobbies, and the use or misuse of our creative energies.
The Sixth House deals with our power to assimilate and make order from the information available to us.
The Seventh House shows the influence of our marriage partner or significant other.
The Eighth House shows the influence of our partner's family system.
The Ninth House deals with religion, law, philosophy, higher education, dreams, visions and intuitions.
The Tenth House rules our career, standing and position in the world.
The Eleventh House deals with our hopes, dreams and wishes.
The Twelfth House reveals influences from hospitals, prisons and mental institutions.
Also, houses 1 through 4 are considered personal houses, houses 5 through 8 are considered social houses, and houses 9 through 12 are considered universal houses.

Once you figure out how each house is occupied, then you move to the planets and what each one means in that person's house and chart. All of this information regarding houses and planets can also be found online at a number of sites. I should note that I am no astrology expert myself. I'm sure there are lots of helpful books out there; I'm just not familiar with them. Because this is all very complicated, I recommend letting a professional do charts for you and your friends.

I wish you unlimited learning!

*****

Astrea:

A few years ago, I bought a copy of a big purple book called, The Only Astrology Book You'll Ever Need. It isn't! It's huge, confusing, and has a lot of bad information in it. I don't see how anyone could use something like that - let alone ANY book or combination of books - to interpret a chart. Since you've asked, however, I do often recommend Sydney Omar's astrology books.

Like most psychic stuff, astrology can be pretty subjective. Most of the astrologers I know learn how to read charts from all sorts of different sources. We don't rely on books to get our answers; we rely on years of experience and careful mathematic calculations. The art of astrology lies in uncovering the personality of the INDIVIDUAL. No book can do that - they're just too general. It takes time and experience to learn how to interpret the various aspects of anyone's chart.

One of the most important things about astrology is how planets relate to one another within a person's chart. Unfortunately, I don't know any books that will give you that information. While there are some great books about the GENERAL meanings of various aspects of astrology, even the most complete ones can't address the uniqueness of the individual.

Also, you need complete birth information including the time and place of birth to get any kind of accurate read. Since you didn't include where and when you were born in your question, for instance, I'm unable to draw anything more than a very GENERAL chart for you. I can't determine your ascendant, which is the person we PRESENT to others. To me, that's one of the most important aspects in any chart.

I've never seen an astrology book that will compute a chart, either. Fortunately, we have the internet for that. There are several well-known sites that will do that for you for free. When we're armed with a complete chart, books CAN be helpful, but they still don't relate one planet to the other properly. That takes years of practice and lots of personally developed insight.

Like any other metaphysical pursuit, practice will make you better, and the experience you've gained doing this from books will give you a lot of information you CAN use.

Astrology is complicated, and there aren't any quick answers. I've tried the computer programs, and some of them do the math correctly, but some don't. The internet sites seem to be doing a more accurate job of that, as long as you can use a map to locate where the person you're doing the chart for was born. Being "off by a few" doesn't work here; everything MUST be EXACT. You'll find being exact makes a huge difference in your astrological work, especially when it comes to PREDICTING things!

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.