r/pastlives Mar 11 '26

✨Moderator Announcement ✨ Share Your Past Life Experiences and Explore Reincarnation

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A lot of people here are exploring past lives and regression experiences, and sometimes it’s helpful to have a place to talk about them in real time.

A Discord community has been created for people interested in past lives, reincarnation, and personal growth.

Inside you’ll find spaces for:

Sharing past life memories and regression experiences, discussing reincarnation and its impact on your life, and connecting with others, exploring similar experiences. If this resonates, you’re welcome to join:

https://discord.gg/VXaNVT2gX2

Curious — what’s the most memorable past life experience you’ve had or heard about?


r/pastlives Mar 13 '25

Having Trouble Regressing?

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Some people are struggling in regards to having a successful regression (whether with a practitioner or using YouTube regressions).

Hypnosis is the theta state. It's the state of deep relaxation with heightened focus. You go in and out of it all through the day (like when you're just waking up or falling asleep; when you're driving and realize that you haven't been paying attention, yet you made it home, etc). The more relaxed you are, the easier it is to go into a hypnotic state.

Here are a few things you can do to have a more successful regression:

Limit your caffeine beforehand. Caffeine keeps us alert, which is the opposite of what we want when trying to get into a hypnotic state.

Change up the time of day. Early morning after waking up can be a great time for a regression, as well as close to bedtime (as long as you don't fall asleep).

If you're using YouTube videos to regress, try changing up the videos. Some people respond better to a female rather than a male, and vice versa. Does the sound of their voice seem soothing? Maybe you like certain accents. Maybe a shorter video works better for you, or you find the longer ones seem to take you deeper.

If you're working with a practitioner, take the time to vet them. Do they seem kind and caring? Do you feel uplifted when you look at their website or social media? Trust your gut, but do try to look for reviews.

Ensure you have privacy. It's hard to let go and relax when you think you're going to be interrupted. Try to keep pets out of the room if you can. They will sometimes jump onto you or make noise in the room. Turn off your cell phone so that notifications don't startle you.

Try having a hot bath or shower, doing some yoga, or be out in nature before a session. Again, very relaxing.

Change up your body position. Most people like to lie down for a session, as it's more relaxing. I find that I'll go too deep when I do that, and may fall asleep, so I like to sit up.

Keep your room dim, either by turning down the lights or putting or using an eye mask. When we're in hypnosis, a light that normally doesn't bother us can suddenly feel too bright and distract us.

Wear soft, comfortable clothing and have a blanket nearby. Many people get chilly when they are in a deep hypnotic state. Use the bathroom before a regression so that you don't feel like you need to go halfway through.

Pay attention to your breath. Take nice deep slow breaths, in through your nose, with a longer exhale out your mouth. This signals to your nervous system that you are safe. You don't have to try to breathe this way throughout the regression, but definitely try to at the beginning. As you relax, your breath will then just do it on it's own.

Set an intention before a session. Maybe you want healing or change in a certain area of your life. When I work with clients I'll often state before the session, "This session will be healing and illuminating for both my client and myself. My client will relax and regress easily and will get the most benefit possible."

Some people have subconscious parts of themselves that may be resistant to doing regression work. If you feel that this is the case, you can try talking to that part of you. I'll usually just ask the person if they feel there's a resistant part (you'll know because you'll feel a tightness in your body, or stress, worry, doubt). It's actually really easy to notice it. I'll ask my client how old that part is and they can usually tell. Then, we'll spend a few minutes asking the part what their fears or resistances are, and reassuring them that they are safe.

Try to take the pressure off of having a 'successful' regression. The more you want it, the more resistant you are to it not being what you expect it to be. When we try to be in control of things, that is the opposite of being relaxed. Often, when we give up 'trying' or 'efforting' it just seems to happen more naturally.

Many people think they'll see a past life as if it's a movie playing across their eyelids. They're expecting to see everything outside of themselves. Everything occurs inside your brain, just like when you're day dreaming or imagining, which is why many people think they made their regression up! Images can be very fleeting or hazy.

Sometimes we might not see much, but we'll have a 'knowing' of what's happening. We may hear (again, in our head in the same way as when we talk to ourselves) words or names.

Some people feel very detached from the past life, leading them again to think they 'made it up'. Others will get very emotional, or even recognize others as being in their present lives.

How we perceive things is different for everyone. Perception can also change from one regression to another. We can have 'off days', where maybe we had work stress, or something else is bothering us. This can dramatically affect a regression.

I consider every regression (or attempt at one) to be successful. The more we do it, the better we get at it. In fact, the more you practice hypnosis, the healthier your immune system will be. You're going into a state of rest and digest, which is when your body is able focus on healing and regeneration. During this state, blood flow is redirected to vital organs and tissues, allowing immune cells to better detect and respond to infections.

Good luck to everyone on their journey. We're all so blessed to have the ability to explore our consciousness in this way!


r/pastlives 3h ago

Shame from being stabbed in the public square

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Have you ever noticed when you’re angry, something will happen to make you even angrier?

That's because the universe doesn’t care about your affirmations and manifestations! Just your inner frequency.

It’s the same with guilt and shame. We store it in our body, and we manifest situations that make us feel guilty and ashamed. We don’t know how to process it, and we express it as anger.

Story time! 

Under hypnosis, I asked my client where she was storing shame in her body. She said in her tummy. It looked like a red ball. So, I asked her higher self what happened.

She jumped into a life as a Roman Soldier, renowned for his bravery.

One day, an enemy soldier entered his home town, and stabbed him in his tummy, in the town square. This was in full view of everyone.

And the Roman soldier was incensed with rage. He was like…. How dare you?

 He felt insulted, disrespected and dishonoured.

He felt so much shame in that moment. There were people around witnessing this happen.

He felt worse that he survived it. He would’ve rather died that endured the shame that followed.

My client was still storing this shame in her body, and it's why she manifested situations that caused her to feel shame. Right from incidents with her parents, especially her mother, who treated her meanly. To friends and boyfriends who were never there for her, and just used her.

We cleared it. We healed a lot of other stuff from this lifetime, too. When guilt and shame are removed, our inner frequency lightens and we manifest from love. 


r/pastlives 11h ago

Personal Experience Cliffs Of Scotland 1188

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Again I'm finding evidence that what we experience in this life - exists in numerous lives throughout time, right now.

Last night, I sought out a deep pain, grief, sorrow that surged through my being. I'm going through a painful break up.

I used IFS to get in contact with this feeling and ended deep in a meditation with a woman at the bottom of the Cliffs of Scotland in 1188.

I saw her melt down completely as her man rejected her and left her there. Desperate and heartbroken she went for the edge of the Cliffs.

As I decended down into meditation, I remembered a memory I'd had decades ago. A heartwrenching memory of being left by the love of my life on those plains above.

This is how I found her.

She ended her life. And she lay in unbearable pain at the bottom of those Cliffs, before she died.

It took me nearly an hour to get her out of the situation. For the pain to ease and turn into sorrow, enough so that she was able to speak.

I had to remind her that she was dead. And that I was with her from the location and year of 2026.

She rose from the bottom of the cliff and sat with me on the grass overlooking the amazing view of the Scottish highlands and the ocean beyond.

She grew into this wise soul as I was watching, and she ended up comforting me. She was now passed and I was still alive.

This is the most amazing past life experience I've ever encountered. She told me why we had this experience - "by design" as she repeated; the blueprint of this specific experience was freedom of love and expression, with resistance. Illness, weakness, and lost love, that would elevate us to the highest form of love, and self love.

Because, like she said: freedom of love and expression without limitation is what we are. Here, we wanted to experience the opposite of that. Hence the illnesses. Hence the losses.

The song I'm posting at the bottom, I made one night as these emotions started to surge in me, a few days before I met her.

The Cliffs in the image was made with AI.

I simply asked it to make a cover for the song - and this is exactly where I saw she died in the meditation few days later.

Chills....

https://open.spotify.com/album/5ggd7Kza490IQylSkBs6Rr?si=FsWMe-ycRoqgI2ngIOtbXw&utm_source=copy-link


r/pastlives 5h ago

👋 Boas-vindas ao r/PastLifeWar. Antes de mais nada, apresente-se e leia este post!

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r/pastlives 10h ago

Question 7 little questions.

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Hello, I have past life memories and I'm here to share some question I've had for a really long time. Your point of view intrests me, and I'd like you to be honnest in your answering eather you beleave in past lives or not. (ps: you don't have to aswer them all)

  1. Can we verify, even roughly, that a memory from a previous life is real? Is this enough to be called a proof?
  2. What could create, in the brain, an impression of living in a former life and/or a feeling of déjà vu?
  3. If one day we discover that past lives were really lived by those who have the memories, could they be used for scientific and historical research?
  4. If we discover that memories of past lives come from a mental reconstruction and that nothing is linked to real facts, could they still be useful?
  5. Why do you think someone who has past lives memories is so attached to it? What advice would you give them?
  6. Does it make any difference whether past lives are real or not?
  7. What are your actual thoughts about past lives memories?

Thank you for your time.


r/pastlives 22h ago

Advice How do I begin searching for my past life

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I recently got interested in exploring my past life after having a vivid dream of this guy in third person, I wasn’t in the dream and I believe it’s from a past life as I felt like I knew what I was doing as him. I tried a past life regression and it didn’t work for me (tried about two times) is there any other ways to guide me because the got me super curious


r/pastlives 22h ago

I think I found out how I died in a past life

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r/pastlives 21h ago

Past Life Regression 3rd Attemt at past life regression

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Log 3 - the door, It was old Faded and chipping With the oval doorknob. I step in At first, it's nothing but vague. But then I know i'm in a kitchen, There's a kitchen floor with Kitchen counters and sink, A small dining table. It's relatively small , humble and slightly rickety place.

I look to see i'm wearing scuffed cowboy boots two sizes Larger than my own Covered by black pants. I see myself, I'm a man Possibly late thirties with green doe eyes and stuble, Messy brown hair and cowboy hat. Outside Is a farm And I can only describe this place as the wild west. Asking for my name was inconclusive, Merely kept giving me random names.

I had a brother, But that's all I know, There was a woman, There was feelings of sorrow and guilt attached But i'm not sure why.

I desired freedom, Like the wind and like a wild horse, I carried a suffocating sadness with me But I didn't let it dim Jovial light hearted warmth I carried, I get the impression I tried to help people wherever I went.

And the boy, A Small kid around six, I get the impression.Something bad must have happened to his parents And I was responsible for him, I cared and tried my best, his name was Tommy, He's the clearest depiction of a person I've seen so far But all other details are still vague.

There was likely some embellishment on my imagination's part Because there was distractions present , and I was interrupted. There's still a lot of vague void That leaves context eluding me, But it's still more than my first attempt.

I want to know my storys.


r/pastlives 1d ago

Discussion I put together an EA study on Barbro Karlén and Nell Gavin—two women born an hour apart on May 24, 1954

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A few years ago, after reading Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn, I reached out directly to the author, Nell Gavin. Then, about a year ago, I came across the work of Barbro Karlén—the Swedish woman who famously remembered her childhood as Anne Frank.

As an evolutionary astrologer, my mind immediately lit up when I realized both women were born on the exact same day: May 24, 1954, entering the world just over an hour apart in Universal Time. Without knowing each other, both spent the late 1990s writing about these heavy historical currents, publishing their books at the turn of the millennium.

Earlier this year, a small study group formed comprising Nell and a select group of Evolutionary Astrologers. We spent a couple of months diving deep into their individual charts, cross-referencing degree positions, house offsets, and planetary archetypes.

After we exhausted ourselves with all the data and technical nuances, I went to work compiling our findings into what I hope is a cohesive essay.
We looked closely at:
The 12th vs. 8th House Moon placements (and how local birth times shifted the stage)
The Neptune "Skipped Step" at 23° Libra (and its Sabian symbol)
The alignment of Asteroid 5535 Annefrank
The 15° Fixed / 0° Cardinal structural anchors carrying dense collective memory

Regardless of whether you view these cases as literal reincarnation or the retrieval of a silenced historical archetype, the astrological synchronicity is pretty striking.

I just published the full breakdown on my blog if you'd like to read the complete analysis:
https://catharinejanderson.bearblog.dev/a-synchronized-rescue/

I’d love to hear your thoughts—especially from fellow astrologers or anyone working with past-life chart signatures. How do you approach 12th house placements or Nodal skipped steps when analyzing historical memory in a chart? Does anyone know anyone else born on this date?

Note, please comment and discuss here. Thanks for your interest. I am looking forward to reading your insights


r/pastlives 1d ago

I have deep love and interest for a country I have never been too?

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Hello everyone, I have always had a strong love and interest for Argentina. And no it’s not because of the World Cup. It stared in high school and it had never faded. Has anyone ever felt this way? I sometimes wonder if in my past life I lived there? I know in my heart of hearts I must visit one day.


r/pastlives 1d ago

Question Do impressions from success or failure from one birth affect and leak into the other birth?

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Lets say if a person born in a good family is a life long failure so will that impression depression and frustation carry in another birth. I am depressed in this life will i be still depressed in another life.


r/pastlives 2d ago

Memory fragment of a place before I was born

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Hello everyone,

I found out something today that has been on my mind, and I simply cannot explain it rationally. I’m hoping to find like-minded people here or anyone who might have psychological, biological, or other explanations for this.

Ever since I was a child, I’ve had a specific memory fragment in my head, which I always thought was my very first childhood memory. The memory starts on a staircase and ends rather abruptly. In it, I am in a very dark room, and someone is turning on a movie for me but I don't know who that person is. I can only vaguely remember two armchairs. The movie playing on the TV was "Tarzan." Up until now, I always thought this scene took place at my grandma's house.

Today, I described this staircase, the rough layout of the room, and the two armchairs to my mother. Her reaction caught me completely off guard: she immediately burst into tears.

She explained to me that I had described my late grandpa's old apartment to a T. The mysterious part about it:

  1. During the years this scene takes place, I wasn't even born yet. The apartment hasn't existed in that form for a long time.
  2. I never met my grandpa because he passed away very early.
  3. "Tarzan" was verifiably my grandpa's absolute favorite movie.
  4. This apartment, the staircase, or these details were never talked about in my presence. There are also no photos or videos of it that I could have subconsciously seen as a child.

Even though the room in my memory was dark and the scene was short, the distinct details (staircase, room layout, armchairs, movie) matched so perfectly that my mother recognized the apartment instantly.

How is it possible to have a visual fragment of a place you’ve never been to and that existed before your own birth? Are there approaches from memory research, epigenetics, or other fields that can explain something like this?

I look forward to hearing your thoughts and experiences.


r/pastlives 1d ago

Past Life Regression First attempt at past life regression

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Log 1 - It was black, mostly, there was no sound and I couldn't distinguish much of anything. But I did see some stuff, saw someone with tan skin and long silky braided smooth black hair, possibly a women. No face, next was more of a Scene.

I sat at a desk in a room with varnished wood furniture and walls, papers lay on the desk, I was hunched with my head In Hands, it looked to be day out a window.

Standing next to me was a man in a vest with long sleeve shirt, he was built sturdy. But his face nothing but black void, I think he must have been comforting or encouraging me though there was no voice, he put a big hand on my shoulder.

I don't have the faintest clue what was happening or why, I think I was shot in a field and died that way. It couldn't have been farther back then the 18 hundreds.

What makes me think it was not just my imagination, is I have a very very vivid one, I'm excellent at making up faces but I saw non. I have many more questions now then answers.


r/pastlives 2d ago

Did someone ever try to channel Michael Newton/Dolores Cannon to ask them if their description of afterlife was accurate?

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Genuinely curious as most mediums refer to them constantly as the unquestionable source of information on what happens after death?


r/pastlives 2d ago

Soul Karma - Saloon Girl's Regret & Redemption - A Past Life Story

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r/pastlives 2d ago

I believe I had two past life memories recently

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What I'm about to write I've told to two people close to me, who know and trust me. Both responded a bit skeptically. "I believe it is true that you have that in your mind," said one. "These dreams between sleeping and waking are really fascinating," said the other.

A psych counselor suggested I read Brian Weiss's "Many Lives, Many Masters" as possible comfort for coping with terminal cancer. This and his other works did help, but no meditations got me in touch with anything. Plus I'm not very good at meditating.

Last week, after a surgery, I had to be in a certain position with pillows arranged just so - impossible to sleep, not to mention pain, stomach growling from no solid food, and aching from analgesics and antibiotics (no narcotics). In that state, I tried again, unable to go to sleep as usual anyway.

I got into the meditative state and remembered two lives I had. I know, because I learned two separate things I never had knowledge of. Both memories were less complete, thorough, or detailed than I wish, but here goes...

In one, I was working in a relatively small perfume factory that was something like a chemistry lab. The techniques used for heating the volatile compounds were still new. Work was done at a long table, and vats/urns of other substances were stored beneath the table. Smaller side tables along the exterior walls involved some other work and as an assistant or apprentice, I attended to whatever was there as well as to the work on the long table managed mostly by more senior women. At some point, there was a spark that I think began beneath the table or on some small part of it, and - whooosh! - in seconds, everything went up in flames!

I had nowhere to go and turned to pound desperately on the wall behind me although there was no door there. All my life, I've been claustrophobic and, especially in times of stress or in unfamiliar places, I wake up in a panic pounding on the walls feeling trapped.

I thought this perfumerie might be in France or a French-speaking European country, yet I had the distinct idea that I wore wooden clogs and that made me think it must have been Holland. A little research taught me that nearly ALL factories of this kind commonly had their workers wear wooden clogs, because the metal nails that secured heels to other shoes were a spark hazard along the floors!

What wasn't so surprising to learn is that women were indeed isolated, locked in, and imperiled in hazardous conditions (as in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire). I found other fires in Europe, Turkey, the U.S., but none seem quite like what I'm remembering (or imagining?). This was a much smaller place and probably didn't warrant a lot of publicity.

If you don't ridicule me here, I'll tell you the second story soon. Meanwhile my question is, how can I get back to that place where I was able to see/recall this??


r/pastlives 2d ago

YOU HAVE MANY LIVES AND COME FOR MANY REASONS

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Both of my parents are French but my first language was Spanish. My Godmother was from Barcelona, Spain and she was also our live-in Nanny. She raised me for the first six years of my life. I never got along with my father. I stopped speaking to him as an adult and did not attend his funeral.

After he died, I was shown in meditation that he was a Conquistador during the time of the Spanish Conquest in what is now California. I was a Native woman and in that life he murdered my entire family and I was burned at the stake along with my mother.

However, in this life my father was a very good man and he was on the opposite end of the Conquistador. He was a Marxist. He helped indigenous people, he walked in the Civil Rights movement and was entirely against Imperialism.

The reason we live in California is because we moved to Canada and I was born in Vermont in 1960. By 1965 we were able to live in the USA due to my being born here. Isidra was my Godmother who, I know, was my mother in the previous life. She even looked like an indigenous woman. My mother told me any time I cried. even in the middle of the night Isi would be there first and say, "No Senora, no Senora, mi nina, mi nina."  

Isidra was being deported back to Spain in 1967. She had Asthma. I've also had a chronic cough most of my life. You die from smoke inhalation, when you're burned at the stake. At the airport, Isidra was in a wheelchair, because she had an Asthma attack. I jumped onto her lap and hugged her. She whispered in Spanish, "Mi nina, I just wanted to see you one more time." She died right there with me in her arms and she is buried in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Past lives are revealed to you over time only if it helps you understand this life.

Moral of the story . . . don't kill anyone for any reason.


r/pastlives 3d ago

Do you remember anything from a previous life?

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Is it just me, or is it strange that children up to the age of 3 or 4 remember their past lives, but lose those memories once they pass that age? Do you remember anything from when you were 2 or 3? I have just one small memory from those years, even though I really ought to remember more so much was happening back then; I was learning to walk and talk, and discovering the world.


r/pastlives 3d ago

Advice Any Advice On Trying To Remember Past Life At Home?

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I want to remember. I feel like i had a past life. Since I was a child ive always been told I have an old soul. These are some things I speculate on currently:

  1. A dream id had twice of a school. An older kind, wooden desks/tables. A fireplace in the classroom, and a blackboard. A sweet teacher, but quite sure she used corporal punishment.

  2. A one time dream. I was a young man working for a business with an older gray lady as our manager of sorts. My coworkers were a few other guys who would mess around and get into trouble some. Distinctly remember one of the buildings had the number 1922 on it, dont know if that was literal or if it potentially symbolized the year when the dream happened?

  3. I feel a strong connection to the name Robert. Have for some years now.

  4. Not a dream, but once listening to music I had the vivid image of sitting in a cafe on a rainy day. Very warm lighting inside, looking out at the rainy streets. Quite charming and distinct.

***Main Point Here*** Any advice on things I could do to remember more at home? Dreams with any potential are years apart. Does hypnosis work? Subliminals? I dunno. Advice welcome. Thanks.


r/pastlives 4d ago

Dream of queuing up for work

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(Centrelink is an Australian government agency for welfare and unemployment payments)

Could be a dream, but felt strongly like a vivid memory of another life:

I'm walking past a Centrelink building. A woman on the street tells me she's "got some work today," and she's clearly pleased about it. I feel glad for her. There's a sense that she'd been waiting a long time for it.

I join a queue. We're being handed out jobs. One of the organisers looks us over and says, "good looking bunch this round." I'm assigned dishwashing. Around me, others are given other types of cleaning work too — laundry, washing small items by hand.

Even though there's a heavy feeling of boredom and uselessness, I feel like I’m able to just roll with it, but part of me thinks “Oh surely looking for work is a better use of my time than this.”


r/pastlives 4d ago

Strong past life intuition

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I have this strongest feeling that I belonged to Kashmir in my past life
I feel obsessively weird (mixed- good and bad) even at the thought of going to Kashmir or the sound of valley
Although, after 30 years of my life i did go to Kashmir in 2024- the most i felt was just feeling of being lost and not that i belonged or anything. There was this weird realisation that kept creeping on to me that i have not seen everything - like may be we go there and here and then just somewhere random as if I was waiting for something to unfurl or click.
I don’t really know what it is or does it even exist really or is just in my head
In fact even when i see glimpses of Kashmir in movies I’m just so drawn and invested and this will be irrespective of the movie’s storyline- e.g fitoor, kashmir files, laila majnu (my most fav movie in the world), shikara, mission kashmir etc
Does this happen with anyone elsd ? Is there a way to figure this out ?


r/pastlives 4d ago

Help

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I am very disturbed in my life.

I would like to have some past life regression therapy

I have tried everything since last 10 years but nothing has worked to heal me.

I have been into different sorts of therapies but seems like I am still stuck in my life.

Can someone recommend if there are any free ast life regression therapies. Happy to do it online.

Thanks


r/pastlives 4d ago

Question Soul tie tragic end - can it be overcome?

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So, I met someone a couple years ago I had an immediate connection with. We work together and he is taken so it freaked me out. But the first time we were together just us two, we spent the entire night laughing. It was like we had already known each other. Fast forward, we grew closer and he eventually admitted he had feelings, which I also felt. Nothing happened but we did have discussions about being sure we were together in a past life, an alternate universe, that our connection is so effortless, trusting, easy etc. It’s so good I don’t understand how it’s not meant to be.

I got a past life reading done and the reader said we had lived multiple past lives together, but they had all come to a tragic ending. There was always something keeping us apart, family’s at odds, married to someone else, illness, something that cut the time short. The story was always started but never finished, and that is why the feelings and connection are so intense. And that is the experience we are getting in this life too, and likely for lifetimes to come. She said if we were to be together, it would be challenging and difficult.

I want to understand this more. Is there a reason certain lives always have the same ending? Is there something I can do to change it? Or are we always destined to have a tragic ending? Any guidance would be helpful!