When you say that we are not sure if these memories are actually our own it leads me to to tell you about a personal experience. As a teenager i had problems wearing shirts because the cloth irritated one side of my chest. It became such an issue that my mother decided to resolve it once and for all and we went to our doctor who told us there was nothing wrong with the right side of my chest .
Years later a woman and man came into my music store and having a hunch they were not from around that area i asked them what they were doing in the area. They told me that they were readers/psychics and were putting on a seminar in a near by town. i told them that i held astrology classes at my store and it would be nice to have them come. They said they would. While at the class i introduced them and they said they would be willing to do a psychic reading. No one seemed interested to volunteer so i did. They asked me if there was anything i wanted to know. i said yes could you tell me anything about my past lives?The woman was quiet and closed her eyes then opened them and said you were in the civil war and was shot in the right chest and died. She also told me that i lived in India and was struck by a cobra early in life.
Do i feel compelled to seek out people from the past you ask. Shannon you and i have some past encounters. We are learning how to serve others unselfishly together and help each other in the process. This is evident in the Moon/Neptune combust (conjunction) position in our charts in the 6th house of service at the critical degree of 29 degrees Scorpio. Somethings are just self evident. Interestingly enough that aspect has Mars over it as we speak which is triggering this present encounter. There are other factors that signify this as well. Life sometimes seeks us out in our encounters. The choice we have is to what degree we choose to participate.
So since I've never had these things happen to me, can you say that it has helped you in some way to know what might have happened in the past, or how astrology has given you answers to current situations?
i will add this though since you asked and have told me that we may be influenced in our outcomes by the existence of astrology. Even the quality of free will is a karmically earned quality that is evident in astrology. For instance mccoy has a lot of free will choices in this life surrounding values shared and encountered with others he meets and what he learns about them from other people. Shannon has a lot of free will choices surrounding her relationships and talents of others she meets in her life that can help her in relationships and service. These are earned qualities from previous life episodes. Shannon has the ability to attract spiritual connections for her own growth and mccoy has the ability to attract values that are different then his own for his souls growth. These can often be seen as challenging to his own views. In Brock there is the ability to choose his own religious beliefs and career choices. He has chosen to have an environment where this could be done. Although at times in this process he finds communication with others to be confusing and challenging. How do we distinguish the truth from that which is untrue and deceptive? First we must ask the question of ourselves. In Eric there is the ability to gain insights on unconscious phenomena thru destined associations he comes in contact from others in his life.
How we choose to use these 'gifts' is up to the individual. Will we use the power (which is symbolized by the presence of conjunctions of planets) in a manner which is conducive to and interdependent with our spiritual community? Can the individual take this power and channel it into areas which promote well-being and growth with others? Or will we (i also have a similar challenge) use this power for our own gain and ego expansion at the expense of others? This is the free choice and herein lies the souls challenge. We can take the later course which will set up new karmic conditions, new lessons to be learned in the form of phenomena which will occur to us at later points in time. Or we can take the former and get it right this time around; Life being a school with tests along the way.
It helps me to know what 'gifts' are given to others so that i am able to better serve them if and when they are receptive and conversely they can do the same for me if and when i am receptive. So my answer to you is that when u are receptive you too will find the different talents in others helpful to your own growth and understanding as i have found yours helpful to my challenges in life.
Astrology is only one way to understand ourselves and the world around us. I love the expansion of consciousness the stars and the nite sky gives and can see the synchronicity between events here and there. The study of astrology is facinating in so many ways specifically to understand ourselves and our place in the universe.
For the question; 'Has it helped me to know about the past?' --- What is the difference between the past in this life or some other life? Has it helped you to know about the past in this life? Like any thing else it has the potential to help or harm. If we learn from the past of course it is helpful. If we dwell in the past perhaps not.
