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July 29 through August 4, 2024

The week will unfold pretty smoothly until Sunday when a series of astrological events happen all at once! The main one to watch out for will be Mercury going retrograde that day, as we will start to feel the effects of its transition as early as Monday. If you haven’t done it, now is the time to back up all your electronics and refresh your computers and smartphones! Monday’s Taurus Moon is ideal for preparing for this retrograde, so get as much done as you can before the rest of the week scatters our movements. Tuesday and Wednesday’s Gemini Moon will bring new ideas to light, inspiring us for the future and encouraging us to don our thinking caps and do more research! Thursday and Friday will have us focused on home and family as the Moon wades through emotion-based Cancer. Saturday’s Leo Moon will insist we turn our attention to ourselves and rebalance on every level. Whatever is out of order, inside or out, needs to be addressed. We’ll have a Leo new Moon on Sunday, marking a two-week cycle of action, but with Mercury turning retrograde that same day, we may find ourselves rethinking our plans and goals for the next three weeks. Venus will also move into Virgo, asking us to take a closer look at our priorities and where we want to focus our attention for the next month or so. Basically, Sunday is a good day to rest and relax and not think too much about the future until this parade of planets gets situated in a day or two!

Your Tickets to Past Life Exploration, by Judith Marshall

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

For many of us, travel is the spice of life. The comfort and security of home are important, but the unfamiliar stirs the soul. Travel in the physical world offers insight, freedom, and expansion. Travel within—the journey of the spirit—provides the same, especially when exploring past lives.

Think about it. Whether you travel without or within, you choose your destination, make the journey, and bring back souvenirs. You can choose to explore your past lives, make the journey by accessing your soul's memory (through meditation, divination, or other life experience), and return to your present life with the best souvenirs of all: information and increased awareness.

Once you do, you'll be forever changed. You'll gain insight into your current emotions, your likes and dislikes, your hopes and fears, and your personal relationships. This new understanding will give you the freedom to heal past and present wounds, to forgive others and yourself. You'll expand your horizons and experience yourself as limitless. You'll know that your soul is bigger than you thought, and that you are more than you imagined.

Your angels, spirit guides, and guardians can act as travel agents who work behind the scenes or as outright tour guides to important sights and events. Intuition will be your constant companion. But, your tickets to past life discovery are openness and trust.

My children, ten-year-old twin boys, remind me of these essential qualities every day. Like most children, they're open as all get-out, and they allow their psychic senses free rein. About a year ago, our family moved from Florida to Massachusetts; phenomenal synchronicity led us to rent a townhouse that was built in 1800. From the moment we stepped foot in the place, my son Geoffrey said he felt he'd lived there before. My husband and I thought he meant the town, but Geoffrey was adamant.

"No," he said, "this house."

From time to time, he repeated this claim. Then, in May of this year, he woke in the middle of the night to see the ghost of an older woman beside his bed. From his description of her hair and dress, she was from the late 1800s or early 1900s. She looked as solid as you and I, and she was crouched over, reaching toward what is now the boys' bedroom closet. Geoffrey guessed that she was reaching toward a stove or fireplace, and when she stood and looked into his eyes, he felt she'd been his mother in a previous life. When he called for us, she disappeared. Her initial appearance had startled him, but after that, he felt no fear. He trusted his impressions and knew she wouldn't hurt him.

More recently, my husband Dan and I took the boys to a neighboring town and ended up at the Old Burial Hill. We wandered aimlessly until our son Connor made a beeline for a small memorial stone. He stared at it for a long moment. Then, he scampered to a patch wildflowers, picked a bunch, and placed them carefully at the base of the stone. With hands folded, he knelt in the grass, closed his eyes, and murmured what I could only assume was a prayer.

When we asked what he was doing, his answer was immediate: "I think I was this person in another life."

From the inscription, we learned the stone had been placed there in memory of someone executed during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.

"I was her," Connor reiterated.

The accused's given name was one usually reserved for males; in fact, it was derived from the name "William." So, Dan and I told the boys he was probably a man.

"No," Geoffrey said, placing his own offering—a particularly attractive leaf—before the stone. "Connor's right. It was a woman."

For the record, many men were accused during the Salem Witch Trials. Both boys knew that, so they made no assumptions about the word "witch." In addition, they're still preteens and believe their parents actually know something, so their insistence about her gender was significant.

During our remaining time in the graveyard, Connor returned to that memorial stone twice more. "I just don't want to leave it," he explained. "I feel like I'm supposed to be here."

In the end, he was the reason we left. "I sense something dark now," he said, hastening toward the exit. "We have to go."

At home, I looked up the name from the stone and learned that the accused was indeed a woman. Whether or not she was connected to Connor, he and his twin trusted their gut instincts, regardless of my opinion or that of my husband.

We haven't researched either of the boys' claims further. One day, if they decide to follow up, we'll be happy to help them. In the meantime, I stand in awe of their open minds and trusting hearts.

Do you want to learn more about your past lives? Approach your investigations as a child would. Yes, you'll check the facts and analyze up and down. But open yourself to receive whatever comes. Trust your intuition and impressions. And trust that you'll learn exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.

If you'd like a travel guide for your inward journey, check out my book, Past Lives, Present Stories: Healing and Wisdom through Past Life Exploration. You'll learn more about the interplay of past and present lives, as well as specific exercises to help you along the way.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2014. All rights reserved.

I have a question that pertains to someone other than myself. Is it possible for an entire family to be cursed? In the two years I have known my boyfriend, I have witnessed such horrible tragedies. His father died of cancer a year before I met him, two of his siblings have been in and out of mental institutions for bipolar disorder and severe depression. As soon as things pick up, something horrible happens. I am sensitive to intense energies and always feel something powerful when I go to their house. Do you have any suggestions for what I might do to help them? I would prefer not to tell them, as the mother is very religious and would object to any remedies or suggestions since she believes non-Catholic practices are evil. (I would have to do it behind her back). I really want to help. They are all very nice, good-natured people, and I hate to stand by and watch them suffer so needlessly. Any advice would be much appreciated, even links to sites or book recommendations. I know you are busy - thank you so much for your time!

Peace, love and empathy!
Liz

Dreamchaser:

Liz, you are SUCH a wonderful friend. It is so very thoughtful of you to want to do something to help. This family is blessed to have you in their lives.

Despite all of that, in a nutshell, the answer is no: there is nothing you can do to help these people. Bad things happen to good people all the time. It is easy to say, "Well he/she deserved it" if something bad happens to someone we consider to be "bad," but when those same things happen to "good" people, we question why.

Life is not a reward challenge. We are not given experiences based on our souls and intentions. If that were the case, Jesus Christ would have died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 170. For better and worse, everyone is experiencing this thing called life. We make it through tough situations with our faith intact, and we live to fight another day. You fight through your life as well.

Where does God promise us trouble-free lives? Why do we think that we have to change every negative circumstance around us? When something is happening, whether positive or negative, we need to FULLY live inside of that experience, eek every ounce of learning out of it, and then move past it.

Please remember that we are also dealing with Karma here, Liz. Everyone has his or her own Karma. When someone dies or when someone is sick, we can rest assured that it is happening just as it is supposed to happen. I DO understand your wish to help, but I think it's best not to second-guess God in other people's situations.

You did not say whether the "powerful source of energy" you felt in their house was something that feels positive or negative to you. I am sure there is MUCH energy swirling through their house. The mother alone brings in MANY powerful spirits with her prayers. The father is there in spirit form, watching over everyone. There are also spirits from the building and from the land itself, which is the case in most dwellings.

I think it is ALWAYS a bad idea to try to do some type of spell or ritual on/ for someone else without their knowledge or consent. I think that crosses the line of Free Will, and that means your Free Will will get crossed by someone else as a result. You CAN pray for them. That is the most powerful tool we have anyway, and one that you can ALWAYS use. Pray for them to have strength and balance while living their tumultuous lives. That is the biggest help you can give them!

I wish you the ability to be peacefully powerless.

*****

Astrea:

Reincarnation gives us the opportunity to correct some of the things we let slide in other lifetimes. We are supposed to LEARN from our mistakes, even those from other Incarnations. Without delving into the entire family's Karma, it's impossible to know how much they brought with them this time, and how much they've created during THIS Incarnation.

I believe that people have choices and that they experience the consequences of those choices. To suffer with something that is controllable with medicine is a choice. Believe it or not, some people CHOOSE suffering over happiness, and it sounds to me like the family's mother has fallen into a Catholic Mother/Martyr pattern that was common when I was growing up. Under her influence, the whole family has fallen into choosing SUFFERING over JOY. That is a difficult mindset to change, because people get STUCK there.

What you feel in that house is all the NEGATIVE FEAR ENERGY that comes through the old Dogma of the Catholic Church. At her age, she would be a prime target for that. Instead of absorbing all the LOVE from Christian Energy, she's chosen to drag around the guilt and fear that was so often preached to my generation in most Christian Churches. Certainly this Fear Energy spills over to other members of the family and the vibration of the house where they live. The rest of them CHOOSE to be victimized by it. If they're not AWARE of it, that's a choice too.

Since he's a Scorpio, your boyfriend is more sensitive to negative vibrations than others in the family. Keep him away from their influence as much as possible. Scorpios are challenged ENOUGH without having negativity and guilt shoved down their throats. These people are afraid to CHANGE and seek happiness, so it's best if he is somewhere where people are living in LOVE and JOY.

Doing something behind their backs is NOT wise. Giving them POSITIVE SOLUTIONS to problems such as prayer, meditation and LOVE will help this family the most. For any kind of "magic" to work, people have to be willing to PARTICIPATE in that magical healing process. Doing something without someone's PERMISSION often makes things MUCH WORSE.

I encourage you to attend that Catholic Church with the Mother, and point out to her at every opportunity that Christ LOVES HER and wants her happiness, not her misery. PARTICIPATE in the LOVE that the Christian religion can offer to that family, and the Love will begin to flow and heal them. If you work within their belief system, it will work like magic! 🙂

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.