Today I have had a reading for my Past Life. It is rather interesting, so I thought I would share some parts with you. It has to be said I do not usually bother with such things, thinking many of them just a waste of time and money. I stick to my own Tarot, Runes and Scrying, but this reading has given me food for thought:
Your Sun is in a harmonious sextile aspect with Uranus.
You have a great deal of originality, ingenuity, independence, and intuitive ability. Because of your exceptional intellectual and higher consciousness capabilities, to some people you seem inclined to be a dabbler into an extraordinarily wide variety of subjects, projects, and occupations (a Jack-of-all-trades, yet master of some). Your futuristic, scientific/technological as well as mystical, New Age interests are sometimes light years ahead of the mainstream. Your main motivation is likely to be helping others through your abiding interest in things psychological and astrological, especially in esoteric traditions.
Your afterlife experience in the Uranus dimension of awareness tends to make you an extremist. Feeling that anything worth doing is worth overdoing, you do not go at anything halfheartedly. our most prominent past life was probably an Atlantean one, where you may well have been quite influential in unifying teachings for the moral, intellectual, and material uplift of others. In the present, you can best aid seekers — whether beginners or advanced students, laymen, the great or the would-be great — in knowing their true relationships to their souls, their god, and their overall purpose for being here, through the application of spiritual guidance and philosophy. You may be the greatest help to others by giving advice which aids them in their seeking for truth, without becoming dogmatic. Such an activity is likely to bring you the greatest blessings as well.
Your Moon is in an inharmonious aspect with Venus.
You may experience particularly painful emotions at times of feeling unloved and unappreciated. The Moon is reflecting those emotions back to you from your past relationships and experiences, both in the Venus dimension of love and in previous incarnations in the earth. Your vulnerability and hypersensitivity involving affection is probably linked with one who in your previous life was, or in this life is, your mother. Also in a past life you may have been unloving and uncooperative. This may be blocking you from experiencing more love and cooperation from others in the present.
You can balance this part of your akashic account by continually giving a great deal more than you seem to receive and by bending over backwards to compromise in your relationships. Then you will see more and more love coming back into your life. To have friends one must be friendly and to receive love one must give love. Thus your subconscious tendency to feel unloved, neglected or rejected will be overcome by actively, willfully CHOOSING to be more loving and cooperative.
Financially you may have a tendency toward carelessness, and therefore need greater wisdom in handling your money, especially in setting spending priorities. You are more likely than most to experience both very lucky periods as well as periods when everything you deal with may seem to “go to pot.”
These ups and downs relate especially to your investments and expenses stemming from tendencies such as overindulgence in evening pleasures like partying. Disappointments come from this inclination toward self-aggrandizement. This can be balanced by learning to apply your all-powerful will to control and develop yourself, as if you were pushing yourself to exercise harder.
Remember that the Creative Forces have given each of us both the power to be over all that has been created in the material realm, and the opportunity to work with the constructive forces in the spiritual realm. If these become clouded by self-aggrandizement, by self-indulgence, by the desire for fame and fortune, then we become confused and erratic. But if we continuously look to the spiritual value in our relationships with the mental and material, there is harmony, peace, understanding and wisdom in the knowledge of the divinity within.
Your Moon is conjoined with Neptune.
Strongly inclined toward the spiritual and mystical, you are exceptionally intuitive and sensitive. Being especially impressionable, and often psychic, at least as far as absorbing the feelings and vibrations of others is concerned, disillusion and disappointment are likely to frequently inhibit your emotional reactions to life.
For instance, one manifestation of this challenge is your tendency to be verbally inhibited and to keep your powerful feeling nature and great sensitivity below the surface, out of the sight of others.
Your inner longing for love, compassion and spiritual freedom through mystical union is a pursuit that can not be found outside yourself, in the external world of personality and materiality. Your search can only be rewarded by going within, in your prayer, meditation and dream life. Your intense devotion to a spiritual ideal or to an idealized loved one is also reflected in a likely urge toward public or social service. You also probably have marked artistic and musical talent, yet may lack the outward drive to pursue an active involvement in these creative areas.
In other words, from your experience in Neptune and your past life review carried out in the Moon sphere between lives, you have an innate tendency toward the ideal and the easy, the beautiful and the harmonious, and have natural inclinations toward the arts, including acting. Yet you also may have the tendency to be a bit lax in applying yourself. Especially when it comes to hard work or in taking extra time and patience, you may tend to slide by and take the easier way to attain your goal. With application of your will, this may be overcome.
The Moon experience immediately after ending a given lifetime brings up for review your emotional karma from the life just ended, particularly your relationships with your family, especially your mother. From your experience in Neptune, you are likely to attract strange or peculiar experiences in your home life, such as secret enemies and intrigues which bring special challenges to your ideals as well as your emotional vulnerability.
Your health and physical constitution are likely to be as sensitive as your emotional body (although any health problems, particularly when you are young, are likely to be just as hidden as your feelings). Be cautious about drugs of all kinds and especially anesthetics, should such ever become necessary.
Your Venus harmoniously aspects Saturn.
The greater gains for you this lifetime, both financially and spiritually, will be from the middle age on, with the earlier part of your life seeming to be much more difficult. That is, you are likely to experience and share with others a great joy in life during your latter years: in fact, your soul development may well advance you in the afterlife to the higher spheres of Jupiter and the Sun (or beyond this system, to the central stars Arcturus or Polaris).
On the more personal level, one of your main worries in the first half of your life will probably concern your love life. You are likely to be the one who is hurt rather than the one doing the hurting: that is, contentions arise more often in the other camp than in your own. Most of your saddest experiences this lifetime have come through the breaking up of friendships, family and marital and relationships. At the same time, many of your happiest, most pleasant and most peaceful experiences have come through these same relationships.
You have a definite spiritual beauty which develops out of your successfully overcoming these adverse personal challenges. In other words, you are one who has found and overcome many vicissitudes and changes in your present lifetime. Yet you eventually attract tried and true partnerships. In your later years, in fact, may well come the great love of your life, a companionship that will bring a contentment that will be very satisfying. Your financial affairs are also likely to get better as you mature further.
Your Venus inharmoniously aspects Neptune.
At the time of your re-entry into the earth plane your soul flight paths from Venus and Neptune were squared off or opposed in the zodiac. Your choice to be born when these two planet- flight paths were at odds with each other resulted in a call-up from your soul’s past life records which reveal a love liability in your cosmic account.
This same challenging choice of re-entry from Venus, realm of love and beauty, and Neptune, realm of spirituality and mysticism, is made by many sincere seekers who are earnest students on the spiritual path. It points out this lifetime as an especially important one, for you are directly faced, among other things, with the necessity to spiritualize the disappointments you have experienced through your great need for love.
That is, your deep desire for affection — and resulting heartaches from feeling the lack of it — all must be given up and instead has to be universalized into BEING, manifesting Love and Compassion.
This is not to say that you should be impractical in being too empathetic and allow yourself to be deceived (or to deceive or delude yourself), for instance, by giving too much to the wrong — especially spiritual or moral — cause or marrying the wrong person whom you have emotionally over-idealized.
The other area of your unclear vision and lack of good judgment at times might manifest in a kind of “mystical moodiness” as far as inner guidance is concerned (this applies particularly to dreams and meditation experiences). That is, you may be moved by an impulse thought to be from without — from higher, spiritual sources — when it is really within your own head. Or, conversely, you may often be prompted to act or fail to act on what you think is only a feeling from within when it is really from without.
There are indicators that an excellent outlet for you would be in counseling others who are emotionally or spiritually needy, either directly (one-on-one or by leading small groups) or through writing, or both. The main requirement is for you to CHOOSE.
Finally, what is the ideal yet practical manner of expressing these purposes in relationship to those you deal with on a day-to-day basis. Then, whether it be in fact or fiction, in a private journal or widely read book or column, WRITE about what you have come up with! There are many, many souls who would benefit, as long as you really have something constructive and helpful to say as part of a specific purpose and lesson to be learned.
Your Venus is opposite Jupiter.
Your experiences between earth lives in the Venus and Jupiter dimensions of awareness generally make for benevolent, positive influences in your life. Nonetheless there are some inclinations toward wastefulness and vanity which need curbing. Unless this is done and there is a gradual comprehension of your true spiritual purposes, these influences toward excesses may become drawbacks in your overall soul development.
Part of your extravagance, especially concerning money matters, comes from a moody, “I don’t care” attitude at times which borders on self-destructiveness. This tendency may not be an obvious threat to your well being until your later years, when you may well wish you had spent your resources more wisely. One way to deal with this challenge is mentally to begin replacing such urges with more practical choices in favor of self-preservation through creating attitudes of helpfulness and hopefulness instead.
Careerwise, or as an avocation outside homebuilding, social service would be a good outlet for you, even if only on a volunteer, part time basis. Do follow in such pursuits and positive dealings with others, holding before your inner Self the principle that what you sow is what you reap.
Also,try not to let a single day go by without interesting yourself in others and doing something specifically for someone else that has been a helpful influence in their life.
Your Mars is in an inharmonious pattern with Saturn.
Mars is the consciousness dimension experienced between earth lives which prompts us toward action and applying energy (whether aggressively, athletically, competitively, militarily or wrathfully). Saturn is the realm of heavy changes and basic soul reprogramming. You chose a day of birth when these two planets were inharmoniously squared off or opposite each other in the zodiac, as seen from the earth. This is a challenging pattern which creates a tendency for you to be pulled often in opposite directions: for instance, you may have urges to act yet feel equally strongly the necessity not to act.
These conflicting, if not erratic, influences have been fed by your interlife soul activities in these planetary heavens, with the challenge wherein you “blow hot, then cold.” This results in dissatisfaction frequently entering into areas of your life — especially your career — in which your physical energies are directed.
So special effort will be needed at such times for you to exert your will force to control your temperament. This is particularly likely to be true of urges toward anger and a tendency toward hastiness in drawing conclusions and judging others. This is usually because others are not in accord with a specific desire of yours to impel them to think the same way as you do.
On the more resourceful side, you have a naturally good business sense and with application of your will toward tempering your temperament, development of your soul forces –bringing you contentment and satisfaction — is likely to come near the middle of your life.
Your Jupiter harmoniously aspects Saturn.
You are patient, persevering, honest, sincere and inclined toward the arts. At the same time, you have marked executive abilities with a somewhat masculine mind in your ability mentally to project goals and physically to carry them out. Yet this rather Saturnian frame of thought is almost always tempered with your Jupiterian urge to seek higher, ennobling influences as the criteria for a more spiritual life.
From your experience in Jupiter, were you to apply your natural sense of good judgment in counseling others, you would be successful in helping them to straighten out their mental and emotional problems. This you could best do through a practical integration of imagination and deeper soul visions while visualizing the positive psychological effect being created. One way such healing could be carried out is through guided imagery and group prayer. In such ways you could accomplish a great deal for yourself and for others.
Through this kind of application, you are able to share with others in need a safe, sane understanding of what you uniquely know, believe, dream of or envision and hold deep within yourself. Yet do not forget that while to know and not to do anything with what you know can count against you in soul development, to not know yet to do the best that you know, feel and experience within is counted as true spirituality and righteousness.
Jupiter’s influence also tends you to have relationships with groups and larger numbers of people, rather than isolated individuals. Saturn’s influence makes for many specific projects and activities which are full of financial and social prospects but often do not materialize to the fullest extent possible. These instances should be seen as clear opportunities not for longsuffering in the sense of duty but for developing a higher patience as an opportunity for soul growth, peace and harmony within. This is that patience through which you know and therefore most truly possess, your own soul.
Now, your experience in Saturn is one to which you cast yourself as being insufficient in earthly terms and in the present, you have the opportunity to rebuild, remold or resuscitate your inner soul forces in line with your outer objectives. From Jupiter you have a truly philosophical and religious spirit behind your Saturnian, worldly ambitions. Because you are willing to apply what you know and work for what you want, you will achieve success.
In the application, then, of your own talents will come a contentment that you are living up to your ideal, regardless of how others may criticize you. Above all, do not criticize or condemn yourself. Instead, act in such a way that you will always do the very best with what you have in hand at any given time.
Your Sun is in Gemini (Tropical zodiac).
Coming as you do under the double sign of Gemini, there are likely to be two natures within you as far as your inner, subconscious urges are concerned. One of these urges is to seek to know (and this thirst for knowledge may sometimes involve questionable things or conditions, at least as far as others are concerned). The other part of this dual urge from Gemini’s influence is your innate as well as outwardly manifested spiritual seeking for a greater, better and more perfect relationship with another. At times these two urges may be more in conflict than most people ordinarily experience.
Also, as in other Gemini children this tendency toward double-mindedness at times may find expression in inclinations to change your mind and overspeculate about things. With application of your will, these inclinations can be curbed.
Now, you were probably part of European culture during the Middle Ages, when there was considerable action and adventure, for example in the continual feuding and strife among the many fiefdoms, families, tribes, castles and kingdoms comprising Europe before its present consolidation into several nation-states.
You may even have been among the gentry or upper class of France or England, attending or participating in jousting tournaments, making long journeys to the Crusades against the Muslims in Palestine, or involved with trade exchanges with the caravans going to and from India and China.
In other words, because Mercury is the planet which rules or symbolizes the essence of Gemini, overall you may have experienced in one or more of these lifetimes a sense of restlessness enduring into your present life.
Finally, centuries or even millennia earlier, you may have led a life in what has become known as Australia or on one of its neighboring South Pacific islands.
Your Moon is in Libra (Tropical zodiac).
You may remember, in your deeper meditations and dreams, experiences from long ago when you were among great artists, sculptors, poets, and craftsmen of ancient India as well as the more recent leaders of prosperous, classical Greece. Even later day Venice, Florence and other Italian cities developed some of this love of culture, beauty and appreciation of art which you were closely involved with then and which you find rewarding still.
Venus is the planet of love, beauty and art, so it is very appropriate to convey the symbolic essence of the sign Libra, which it rules. Venus’ influence through Libra also makes that which is crass and primitive quite unnatural for you to accept gracefully, or to participate in willingly.
You may also have been among many who reincarnated in the American South just before the Civil War. In the present you may have to learn the lesson of providing for your own needs, luxury and comfort rather than having others do provide these things for you. In fact, one of the challenges of Libra lies in being too liberal or indulgent with oneself. With prayerful application of your will, this too can be overcome.
Your Past Life Decanates
According to an ancient Vedic astrology method
still practiced in India, Past Life Planets are realms
in which you sojourned between earth lifetimes. They
are identified through the position of your sidereal
Sun and Moon in the decanates (a decanate is a one-
third division of a zodiac sign; each is ruled by a
planet). Any patterns involving these Past Life
Planets are therefore of special importance. Pay extra
attention, then, to any sections of your reading which
interpret these planets.
NOTE: If your Sun and Moon are both located in a
decanate which is ruled by the same planet, then
only the Sun position is interpreted; the Moon’s
decanate position, being the same as the Sun’s,
therefore does not need to be interpreted.
Your Sun is in Virgo Decanate
Your sidereal Sun is in VIRGO decanate, which is ruled by Mercury. Mercury as Past Life Planet gives you a high intellectual capacity, marked data handling or communications skills, a distinct thirst for knowledge and a natural aptitude for writing, teaching and research.
A prominent Mercurian lifetime as an Egyptian or Hebrew scribe and/or teacher in colonial Asia, Africa or the early Americas is therefore likely.
Your Moon is in Libra Decanate
Your sidereal Moon is in LIBRA decanate, which is ruled by Venus. Venus as Past Life Planet points to high priorities in creativity, sociability and relationships, especially in your family/home life and in the world of nature. Urges toward these experiences and interests from your sojourn in the Venus dimension are likely to originate in parallel lifetimes of soul development through these areas of self-expression.
Especially indicated are lives in the early Jewish-Christian Church and later as an artist-musician in modern times, whether in the West (Europe and/or America), or in modern or colonial Asia.