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A Capricorn full Moon is in the cards this Sunday, but we’ll start feeling the effects of it all week long, as issues of security and financial balances come to the surface. A Scorpio Moon will hang overhead on Monday and Tuesday, encouraging us to share our wisdom and ideas with others, while calling for extra patience as unexpected blocks pop up at every turn. Trusting the plan of the Universe will work in our favor, so don’t get excited or frustrated when plans change at a moment’s notice. Things return to better balance under Wednesday and Thursday’s Sagittarius Moon, where things tend to roll off our backs with ease and we start to see some tangible progress. The Capricorn Moon adds a productive note to our movements on Friday and Saturday. Mars will move into the versatile sign of Gemini on Saturday for a two-month visit, inspiring us to take action on our dreams and to expand our methods of communication (time to upgrade computers and smartphones?) Sunday’s Capricorn full Moon heralds a two-week period of release, asking you to release anything that makes us feel insecure or out of balance with our physical world.

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.

I'm a Caucasian married mother of three living in the U.S. Last night I dreamed I was a little boy with dark skin and dark hair, living in a very rustic little house with dirt floors. I was about six years old, and the entire dream was experienced from this boy's perspective. While I didn't know anyone in that dream in my waking life, I felt I knew my dream father and brother as well as I know anyone. There was a feeling of political danger in the dream, like "they" were rounding up people and doing away with some of them. There was a lot of anxiety about whether or not my father should go into the village to see someone about something or not, because he may not come back. This experience was so vivid - I remember someone holding me because I was scared or upset, and it was raining so we were on this porch, tucked out of the rain. While I suppose this could have been a dream of a past life, it felt so current that I'm wondering if I dreamed the life of a boy who lives a world away, or even more far out, if I could be living more than one life right now. Thanks very much!

- Sheila

Dreamchaser:

What you dreamed about was one of your past lives. Genocide and war have been going on for almost as long as there have been humans on this planet, so lots of us have experienced them.

This may feel like a current life because of all the problems in various parts of the globe, but I feel very clearly that what you were seeing in this dream was your own experiences in a past life.

Our souls don't understand time; time is only relevant to living people. When we are in spirit form or on the Otherside, time has no significance. This is why your dream felt so fresh and current.

Quite often when we awake from a very vivid dream, we feel like we are still in it, or like the dream is in some way real or is going to affect us in our waking lives.

Further, in many lifetimes you have had the experience of being held by someone when you were afraid for a loved one, so this feeling may feel very fresh to you even though the experience you remembered was from long ago.

Your current husband will hold you when you are afraid, and you will hold your children when they are afraid. This may not sound like such a big deal, but feelings carry over from lifetime to lifetime, which can cause a bit of blending when it comes to our memories.

There is one life you lived that is jumping out at me in particular, and in it, you were a runaway slave in the U.S. before the Civil War broke out. You were actually a slave in what is now considered the North, and your family was trying to get out West so that you could all be free together.

You traveled the Underground Railroad and were put under houses through trapdoors covered by rugs, or behind fake walls of closets, etc. You would sleep in those places in the daytime and move around at night. You were terrified, and your mother would hold you on her lap and whisper for you to be brave and not be scared. You were constantly afraid that you were going to be caught.

You were a girl no more than ten years old when your family was on the run. For the record, you made it and so did the rest of your family. However, the fear you experienced at that young age never really left you, and when you got out West, you realized that you had a whole new set of things to worry about. So you basically lived in this state of fear for most of that life.

You worked REALLY hard, grew up, married and had children. You were a very loving person and a good, attentive mother. Despite all of this, you were afraid about something most of the time.

How does this life resonate with the life you're living now? Before you sleep, you can ask your guides to help you to KNOW you are dreaming so you don't wake up with that same icky feeling.

I wish you peace-full dreams.

*****

Astrea:

I've seen movies about women who are leading two parallel lives romantically, but I don't believe it's possible for you to be living in two physical places, or for one soul to inhabit two bodies.

The Universe is too kind to do that to us. To be that divided would be SO miserable, especially since you have children to care for. Though we may wish we could, we can't be two places at once!

There are many different explanations for what you're experiencing in your dream life. If this dream recurs, then it is most likely a past life experience, though it could be a scene from a FUTURE incarnation.

We don't know enough about time to know if the future is another dimension that exists parallel with the now. It seems highly unlikely. I think that time travel like Mark Twain wrote about in "A Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is also highly unlikely. The nature of our soul's connection to the God Force is too deeply imbedded in my psyche for me to entertain such a notion.

It could also be a past life that you share with one of your current children, and you're dreaming about it because there is something related to it that you're supposed to do in the here and now.

You might gently quiz the kids on whether or not they've noticed any dreams in which they "become" other people, or see through someone else's eyes. You might find your answer right there, and be able to clear up some karma from another life that relates to issues of abandonment.

Whether we are the betrayer or the abandoned, karmic abandonment issues are some of the most difficult to reconcile. If this is what's happening, don't miss this opportunity to clear them up!

It's also possible that you and this little boy were both traveling in the astral, and your minds collided. He had your dream that night, and you had his. He was "visiting" you even though he is a stranger because something about your spirit appealed to him. While you were dreaming about his life, he was dreaming about your home and children.

Personally, I think it was a scene from a past life. Sometimes we have very brief incarnations that we re-experience through lucid dreaming. When you get a chance, research Nicaragua in the last few years before you were born into THIS life, and see if anything or anyone jumps out at you.

Although information is pretty sketchy about that time and place, I have a strong psychic feeling of my own that you WERE that little boy, that your dream was a scene from that life, and that you died at a young age.

If that's the case, this is coming up for you now so you can heal it and let go of any issues you may have carried over from that lifetime, so you are wise to be exploring the deeper meaning of this experience.

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.