Sun Signs & Past Lives

Sun Signs & Past Lives

Introduction

Welcome to a book that encourages you to be your own past-life detective. The wealth of information on the following pages will guide you into your inner landscape. This book is meant to awaken your creative passion to take advantage of opportunities in your outer world in this lifetime. The greater our inner understanding, the more we can experience and express our potential.

Past Lives

We live in a spiritual universe. Earth represents a stage upon which we can act out our potential. There is a key theory or philosophy at work in this book, which is that we have lived previous incarnations on planet Earth. Within us are memories from previous lives.
Our conscious mind does not recall our previous lives, but these memories are stored within us. If our mind isn’t doing the remembering, then what is? Call it the soul, higher consciousness, tapping into the Collective Unconscious, or whatever concept suits you. The theory behind reincarnation is that the soul returns to Earth by taking on a new physical body. We get another chance to fulfill our potential. When we die, it’s the soul that leaves the body behind and journeys forward, waiting for a chance to incarnate once again.

Karma and Freedom of Choice

There is a saying that “you reap what you sow. ”This is often referred to as the law of karma, or the great principle of cause and effect. There are actions and thoughts that defined us in other lives. They have guided us to where we are in the present. Some of these actions and thoughts (or tendencies) were positive influences, while others caused us to veer off-course in terms of growth. These past impressions don’t really exert any control over us, though at times their pull can feel immense. The fundamental message of this book is that we have freedom of choice to create new options in our current life.

Evolutionary Path and Past-Life Patterns

Why do we reincarnate? The theory is that we are evolving. If we choose to learn from the past, each lifetime leads us farther along the evolutionary trail. Past-life patterns, or certain repetitive behaviors from previous incarnations, may have taken us down the wrong path. Our creative power is unleashed by confronting worn-out behaviors that no longer serve any useful purpose and by rising above their influences. There is a purpose each of us is trying to fulfill in life. It isn’t so much that we are trying to erase our karma or past-life lessons, but the idea is to gain the wisdom and consciousness to make choices that advance our growth.
In a sense, each of us is trying to get attuned to our soul! We are attempting to rise to the level at which the soul operates.

Sun Signs & Past Lives: Your Soul's Evolutionary Path by Bernie Ashman © 2010 Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. 2143 Wooddale Drive, Woodbury, MN 55125.  All rights reserved, used by permission and with the good wishes of the publisher.  www.llewellyn.com