posted May 11, 2005 06:22 PM         

For some reason I’m just in one of those moods.

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IDENTIFYING A SOUL MATE RELATIONSHIP

In order to find your soul mate, you must know what to look for. I have compiled the ten most important traits in recognizing your soul mate. Read them to help you decide who your own soul mate(s) is.

ACCEPTANCE

Your soul mate must accept you for who you are. He or she must accept your weaknesses as well as your strengths. Your soul mate does not try to change you, nor do you try to change them. He or she lets you be yourself, for the more you are yourself, the stronger your bond with your soul mate has a chance of becoming.

ENCOURAGEMENT

Your soul mate makes you feel good about yourself. He or she never criticizes, only encourages. If they cannot do this, then they are not your soul mate.

· NURTURING

Your soul mate cares about you and what happens to you. He is the first to be by your side in accomplishment and defeat. She picks you up when others throw you down. He nurtures your spirit so you can roll with the punches, no matter where they fall.

FRIENDSHIP

Your soul mate is your best friend in the entire world. She or he laughs with you, cries with you, sings with you. They are there for you when life throws you those bad curves; they are there for you when you surpass your highest expectations of yourself. A soul mate will understand you and give you what you want and need without hesitation. She will make you feel at home, comfortable and at ease.

As you would with any friend, take the relationship slow. Savor each milestone of firsts: the first time your eyes meet, the first time his lips brush against yours, the first afternoon spent together walking through the park or along the seashore or even just in your own backyard. You have to remember that if you end up together, these “firsts” will be ingrained in your memory forever. Cherish them.

GENEROSITY

Your soul mate is generous. He gives freely of his time and his possessions. She will ditch whatever she is doing to be with you. He will give you your heart’s desires. She will give you her heart and soul, if need be.

CONVERSATIONALIST

Soul mates are interested in what each other have to say. My soul mate and I would spend hours contemplating the mysteries of the universe. Since we thought alike, we never did stop talking. We talked about our past, our present and our future. As we had so many things in common, each of us was interested in what the other had to say.

PREMONITIONS

You may have premonitions of your future soul mate in dreams. Whether they are when you are asleep or when you are in meditation, you will picture your soul mate as if he or she were standing in front of you. You will note the color of their hair, the sound of their voice, their way of walking. You will picture your soul mate as you want them to be. If you are fortunate enough to be able to do this—and it can happen anytime, anywhere—remember it. For, in time, your soul mate will appear in front of you just as you envisioned.

POSITIVE KARMA

One of the main ingredients for a successful soul mate relationship lies in the power of karma. In layman’s terms, karma is basically the theory that whatever you do, there will be another event to follow that is directly consequential to your actions. Therefore, the law of karma teaches us that what we do today may come back to haunt us tomorrow. How does this apply to the soul mate phenomenon?

If you are in a bad relationship, and you continue to remain in that relationship, you are setting up a path of bad karma for yourself because of the negative energies that arise. Once you learn to set up a shield against this negativity, good karma will infiltrate your life and open your soul to a promising and healthy soul mate relationship.

Not until this happens will you ever receive a satisfactory soul mate union. Both parties must bring good karma into the relationship. You have to remember that we are all souls, just pure energy “visiting” this planet; and we have been here many times. Neither partner can come from a place where negativity is present, or the soul mate experience just won’t occur..

SPIRITUAL CONNECTION

You will feel a connection with your soul mate, as if you had known him or her before. You will feel an energy radiating between you. You will look into each other’s eyes and see each other’s soul, for that is where the true soul mate connection lies.

Not enough can be said about the spiritual connection between soul mates. It is the most important quality in a soul mate relationship. You will feel this in the depths of your heart and soul. Without it, the soul mate relationship is doomed.

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

Your soul mate will love you more than anything or anyone he has loved in his entire life, although he will give you freedom to be who you are. “You cannot possess a soul mate any more than you can possess a person in your physical world,” says Robert Egby, author of Thank You For The Flowers. “Soul mates are free and must always be so. Love cannot be possessed or controlled. Soul mates are together because they share an unconditional love, a mutual vibration. There are no exceptions.”

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posted May 12, 2005 07:19 AM         

I might add 'Effortlessness' in it as well since soulmate realshionships just happen and they seem like a gift. U never need work terribly hard or be agonised like in karmic relashionships. It just 'Flows'.

posted May 12, 2005 08:15 AM         

Soulmates....
A seal at last set,
A mate,
A soul oases met.
As salt to sea,
As sea to salt,
As muse to tale,
As tale to muse,
So as to us must
As souls to same, salute.

Fayte

Or this version:

Soulmates....
A seal at last set,
A mate,
A soul oases met.
As salt to sea,
As sea to salt,
As muse to tale,
As tale to muse,
So as a Tao
To us must
As meta souls
To same,
Salute.

Fayte

Anagrams for Soulmates:
Meta Souls
Assume lot
Same lotus
A muses lot
Use almost
A must lose
Almost use
O' same lust
Met a souls...
A mute loss
Also muse
Last mouse
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Stela(an inscribed slab used as a monument)

To us..
Mute elms,
To use
As stela.
Let us assume..
So as to use..
As slates,
As tomes,
At least..
Let us so,
As to us amuse.
A muse.
As tales so set,
At last to same,
So mote
to us.
As muses set a seal to
some less amulet.

Fayte

posted May 12, 2005 10:11 AM         

Fayte.m you’re so lucky and I’m so happy for you. You, like Linda, have given me hope. I pray I meet my soul mate someday. It feels more and more possible everyday…sorry, I’m just a hopeless romantic lol Your lexigram is beautiful I copied and saved it - I hope you don’t mind

Pixie…well I don't believe you have to agree with her. Soul mates mean different things to different people I suppose. I can’t help but want to believe that soul mates are as close to perfect as anything can possibly be. Blame my Sun. Actually, it reminds me of a description of Pisces I found when I was fifteen. I loved it so much that I’ve copied it everywhere. However, there was this one part I could never understand - but when I reread it a couple of weeks ago…it strangely made sense.

“Pisces is the sign of intense emotional sensitivity, desire for togetherness and absolute, mystical or religious love.”

posted May 12, 2005 10:12 AM         

I used to believe my ideas were idealistic and would never come true…until I read Linda’s books. She gave me hope to believe in the “impossible”. I wasn’t ashamed of my beliefs, hopes and wishes anymore. I felt anything was possible

I don’t believe my soul mate will be perfect - rather he will be perfect in my eyes. Just like he wont be God like, but in my eyes he will - “Your soul mate must accept you for who you are. He or she must accept your weaknesses as well as your strengths.”
I’m sure I’ll accept him no matter what

I agree Sarah, I think the love must “flow” effortlessly - it’s such a lovely thought. Especially the idea of them being gifts

I just wanted to add one thing - I think this is about soul mates.

“In Plato’s Symposium, Socrates tells the story of the myth of Aristophanes, concerning the origin of sexual love. According to the myth, the original inhabitants of Earth were round creatures with four hands and four feet and with their backs and hands forming a circle. These self-sufficient sexless beings were very arrogant and repeatedly attacked the Gods. To punish them, Zeus hurled thunderbolts at them and split them apart. Each creature was now two, each half longing to merge with it’s other half.”

posted May 12, 2005 11:40 AM         

Yes you’re right, I'm confused
Perhaps you’ve already found your soul mate.
You mentioned something about your Saturn return in astrology. Maybe that’s what’s messing with your head. I think because Saturn is about structure and building you may think thing’s are changing - but change is good. But I don’t believe it has to involve serious relationships. The changes are probably to do with your career - probably for the better, I think it’s also affected by aspects in your chart. But I am in no way an expert on these things.

posted May 12, 2005 12:45 PM         

As for finding my soulmate...well... we both within a few weeks of each other in 1997, dared GOD and the universe to bring us our soulmate, to reveal also what we are here for, or we were taking a walk out of this incarnation! We had both hit the bottom, in every which way! We both got exactly what/ who we needed, not in the expected packages that is for certain! He did not expect a almost 400 pound disabled middle age woman to be it!(I am much thinner now!) I wasn't expecting a man 15 years younger, not fat, just a little stocky, with beautiful long dark hair and the most mesmering eyes I have ever seen! It was not about looks though, when it came to what drew us together, but definitely a result of being the right ones for each other. Oh yeah, that and Daring God etc.! I posted about all that, other times here at LL; as to how we met, and one of the past lives we had shared, but I got in a snit and erased those posts when someone made a remark I didn't like. I am sorry now that I erased them. Thanks for letting me speak. A soulmate is very much what you, neptune's mermaid, posted to start this thread. Thank You!!!

posted May 12, 2005 06:07 PM         

It’s a shame you erased your post, I would have loved to have read it. It’s ok, when I first started posting I remember erasing some of my posts - and I still do that. Don’t thank me hun, I love to read your posts, your so honest…but I guess that’s a Scorpio thing

posted May 13, 2005 08:14 AM         

“and if you hold on to this view of what a Soul Mate is, and hold it to the letter, you may be setting yourself up for disappointment.”

I respect what you’re saying but don’t think I’m stupid naive. I know relationships go through ups and downs - I have a Virgo Moon, I’m practical………well for a Piscean anyway. My perfect is different from other’s perfect - if that makes sense. My idea of perfect is about the emotional part of the relationship. As long as the love is real nothing else matters. Plus with my Venus in Aries I need a challenge otherwise I would get bored. So the usual ups and downs are actually welcomed.

I’m not going to stick with a sh1tty bf and call him my soul mate because that’s the best I can do…I don’t settle. Too many women in my family have done that and they’re either in a miserable marriage or divorced and depressed. I am NOT going to end up like that. Now to me that’s setting yourself up for a disappointment.

posted May 13, 2005 10:05 AM         

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But, even though the others were not my soulmate(s) they were the right ones at those times in my life. So do not worry too much about permanence of a relationship. Live from day to day, experience life..and love...as it comes!

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