posted April 29, 2005 07:08 AM         

Daughter of a 15th century wealthy merchant in Northern Italy. Not considered a beauty because too tall and too thin, but thanks to dowary was married off to some nobleman anyway. Wasn't a happy story - she was afraid of his fiery temper and he puzzled by her ability to slip through his fingers.

Life of very little growth, mostly a waste of time.

And, of course I can't prove a thing about it. That's the beauty.

posted April 29, 2005 04:39 PM         

I'm glad you got to keep the tooth

Be well

posted April 29, 2005 06:24 PM         

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-love and light
-peta

posted April 29, 2005 06:55 PM           

There's only one for which I've seen anything:

I saw it a while ago, so it's starting to fade now: I was a man returning from some battle/conflict/war home, I think to the highlands of Scotland. I looked down and saw my hairy, stout legs (I was wearing a kilt, but one of the large wrap-around kinds, not kind you see in parades - and I think that was all I was wearing). I was looking for someone. Then I saw them and felt a surge of just JOY - a child running up to me (a young boy) and beyond him my wife with another child walking beside her (she may have also been carrying another one). When I saw this, I felt such a surge of protective love - like, "These are mine, mine to protect and keep from all the harm out there." It was such a strong, wonderful feeling.
Gah, just thinking about it makes me happy.
They reached me and we embraced
When I told my husband about this, as soon as I mentioned the woman he said, "That was ME!"

I saw all of that when I was specifically being led back to a happy memory.

When I was a teenager I did an excericize with a candle and mirror. I asked to be shown the faces of those who I'd been whose experiences could lend me strength. Again, it's been some time, but I still remember:
A man with a heavily scarred face, as if someone had held him down and cut him. I got the feeling that he had been a slave in the Roman Empire.
An American Indian man, old, with long hair with a braid coming down one side. He had the look of a Plains Indian, not someone from the coast. He had one large scar on his cheek. His face was long and sharp, severe and craggy, but he had the kindest eyes.
Another young man, he looked like a South American Indian - much darker than me with a round face and a bowl cut.
There were a few others, but it's been some time.

Also, when I was in China I had an experience at a temple (The Temple of the Monkey in S. China, if I remember correctly).
My professor led the class into some chamber, but I inexplicably stayed behind, leaned up against a pillar, and closed my eyes.
I felt myself swell far out of my body, it was a very warm sensation.
It may have turned into something else, but my professor came back and rebuked me.
When he moved on, I looked back to an old woman pulling weeds out from among the stones in the courtyard. She had been watching me.
Our eyes met and she smiled as if she "saw" what just happened.

I felt very "at home" in London (more "at home" than any other civilized place I've ever been up until that point) and could navigate it wonderfully without a map.
I thought all of the "new stuff" was gawdawful ugly, though ("new stuff" being anything less than a hundred years old). Memories that I have of a ship being sunk, being in cold water, being surrounded by people being picked off by sharks (and being terrified of that), and then drowning come up. I don't know if those two are linked.

Very strong feelings of guilt come up with me re: Nazis and WWII. Then there's this blockage that I have with math (I can understand the concepts of higher mathematics and physics wonderfully, I just crumble as soon as I see numbers) and I somehow feel that they're related.

I also did this lexi for my husband a while back:
WE DANCED.
WE DANCED IN THE DESERT AT T' SIDE O' THE SON;
WE DANCED IN WIST ON T' STONES AND STREAMS
AND IN STRAIN AT T' PORTS AND PIERS.

WE SAW WONDERS IN T' EAST AND IN T' WEST -
JADE AS DREAD PIRATES, ACES IN RAIDS.
AS JAINS, SAID TRANCES IN T' DARK -
WE, TASKED TO AIDE AND TRAIN.

NEAR AND DEAR AS TOP-RATED RIDERS,
WE RODE TO RACE T' WIND AND WAR.
WE SAW THE PRICE O' PRIDE.
WE PARTED IN T' RACE, IN TEARS AS TORN;
WE CRIED AS WE DANCED APART.

NOW WE ARE SENT TO SOW AND TO REAP,
TO KNOW AND TO LEAD,
DRAW EARS TO JEST AND JOKES -
RE-NEW T' JADED, WATER T' SICK.

WE'RE WED TO PARTNER IN T' TASK -
WE DANCE AS ONE.
NO TEARS NOW -
WE DANCE AS ONE AS WANTED -
NOT PARTED,
ONE PERSON.

But I don't know what to think about the quality of my lexis.
I'm very hit and miss.
Still, I think that my husband and I have been friends throughout many lifetimes, mostly the same sex (male) with a few times as mates.

I think that I've generally been male - I don't quite feel at home in a female's body.
Besides, who else but someone who's used to being a male would choose to come in as a skinny 5'9'' chick with huge boobs?

Wow, that was long.

*off to read everyone else's*

posted April 29, 2005 07:07 PM           

Now I do feel a little odd about the length of my post, though...oh well.

Everyone's stories are quite cool, and fayte's extra insight's interesting.
Heck, I would be lying if I said that I wouldn't love to hear if you could pick up anything on me, my luv, and my babe, but you have many, many who've come before.

posted April 29, 2005 09:52 PM         

Fayte, you have my permission to post anything you pick up on me, however incriminating.

I was told by a medium that in a recent past life I was a monk, part of a small community of monks, who kept mostly to himself, meditated in a cave, and preferred the company of animals to people.

According to my Edgar Cayce Past-Life Report, I have definitely been in Atlantis, either as a priest, an artist, or both.

posted April 30, 2005 10:53 AM         

I also have a love of things Mexican or hispanic since I was a child.

I think I was also a textile designer in France during the later 1800s (before the little boy.)

Strangely I feel that I have been an artist in most all of my previous lives as a male. I think this is my first incarnation as a female (??)

posted April 30, 2005 04:49 PM         

Any opinion I express is my own. You were specific in your original question.

I think it's pointless 'for me' to speculate about all my past lives. I have enough to do in the here and now. I am the sum of my past lives in action. All of them.

I know for a fact that I drowned in one past life and it was something that made me carry the fear of water. Knowing that didn't help me though one bit. Overcoming it had nothing to do with the knowledge of that life time at all, but everything to do with the knowledge of this lifetime and the sum of who I was.

posted April 30, 2005 05:47 PM         

Past lives..loving it. I believe I was a princess in a small village. It was a very rural place, and though I wish I knew where it was located, I don't. I was young, about 20-21. I was very kind and humble, and always loved to help the peasants. I always see myself in a garden, helping to pick fruits and collect cabbages. lol.

My name online, 90 percent of the time, will have princess before it, or in it. I have felt this way for soooo long,that i have forgotten how long I have felt that I was well, a princess.

Also, I like 'dainty' things. I also have a love for anything Asian, like asian art, houses, culture. (not sure where this comes from though..)

posted April 30, 2005 05:48 PM         

Past lives..loving it. I believe I was a princess in a small village. It was a very rural place, and though I wish I knew where it was located, I don't. I was young, about 20-21. I was very kind and humble, and always loved to help the peasants. I always see myself in a garden, helping to pick fruits and collect cabbages. lol.

My name online, 90 percent of the time, will have princess before it, or in it. I have felt this way for soooo long,that i have forgotten how long I have felt that I was well, a princess.

Also, I like 'dainty' things. I also have a love for anything Asian, like asian art, houses, culture. (not sure where this comes from though..)

posted April 30, 2005 07:48 PM         

Your Mercury is in a square pattern with Jupiter

Your experience in Jupiter gives you a bigness or broadness of experience and an easy going manner. Through will's application, once generosity toward yourself is developed, then extended to others, you will be able to be helpful, mindful, considerate, understanding, and an aid to many. These humanitarian potentials are available to be tapped once you know within yourself that there is and can be an ideal that is also a reasonable thing. One tendency to be careful of in this direction is an inability to be realistic about ideals, for instance you might watch agreeing to take on projects which you may not be in a position to follow through on later.

You have innate high and noble purposes, yet are at times misunderstood. However, with application of will you may manifest love in many ways, for instance, through aiding others to find social and legal justice and in writing. You could also become a successful financial counselor or find success in sales management. Another way to direct your high mental abilities toward moral applications of your experience is through writing devotional stories, poetry and even music that glorifies the inner life of worship and spiritual ideals.

This interpretation of your challenging experience in the Uranus and Mercury dimensions between earth lives is given with an eye to maximizing your strengths and minimizing the faults. Having a prophetic, psychic channeling capacity, you are one who speaks what is on your mind at once. Yet if what you say causes offense to be taken and it is necessary to apologize, you will not hesitate to do so. Then, almost as quickly, you are likely to fly off the handle again very easily.

Your at times erratic mental impatience and irritability can be overcome through will's application, especially in the choices you make in your relationships with others. It is absolutely essential, then, that special care be taken in choosing the right associates and partners, particularly your spouse. So, to make the gains in this world that are your due, it is necessary that you control yourself through applying your will consciously in this direction.

Just before your birth, your experience in the spiritual realm of Neptune was challenged through your choice to make a soul flight stopover in the Mercury dimension. This last minute mental wandering from the dimension of spirituality may be your doing and undoing in the present. For, you have built about yourself through your past lives and your sojourns in the heavenly spheres great thoughts, visions and ideals.

However, due to circumstances probably connected with your relatives and your choice of associates, you have continually found yourself just beyond carrying out these high imaginative forces and ideals. This challenge to your self- confidence can be met directly through self-controlled action on your part. By applying sheer will power and adhering closely to the ideals you envision, you will be able to channel these higher spiritual elements as few may.

One beneficial process in this application of your will is your learning the value of spirituality (how not to take it for granted, for instance). Another result is likely to be the restoring of faith in yourself and your fellow man.

You mind is influenced by many varying intuitions which affect your ability to concentrate and focus your attention. Therefore, your development or retardment this lifetime will depend to a large degree on the application of your will regarding ideals. For instance, your sensitivity to environmental conditions is very great. Surrounding influences which you intuitively absorb will always have a lot to do with the thought trends you take and the way you apply your abilities.

You may have been a devoted priest/ess or nun in a not-so-distant past life, and before that, a seer-diviner in the Holy Land during the time of Jesus. Your sacrifice and loving service then earned you interlife experiences in the planetary realms of love and spirituality, Venus and Neptune. So at the time of your birth, you chose to re-enter the earth when your soul flight paths from Venus and Neptune were in a very favorable angle.

In addition, Jupiter inclines you to have a broad vision concerning your moral, mental and spiritual associations and relationships in the material world. Your soul experience in the Jupiter dimension between earth incarnations accentuates this vision. However, with such a special Jupiterian experience comes special responsibilities. In making your soul flight from Jupiter, where your consciousness was expanded to great heights, you made an extended stopover in the Mars dimension. Much, then, of the wisdom you acquired was lost, with the result that in this lifetime there is the need for you to overcome certain tendencies. These urges especially include self-indulgence -- including not only food and drink but also preoccupation with your own beliefs -- and blaming both yourself and others when things do not work out in your own interests.

Very much wanting to be successful in all that you do, at times you are temperamental, self-willed, over-confident and even brash. From your experience in the Mars dimension after Jupiter and before your earthly reincarnation, you are often so active in pursuing your goals that you occasionally overshoot them. While Mars usually makes for tendencies toward anger and resentment, for you most often the anger you feel is directed at yourself. Nonetheless you are likely to be biased at times by your strong beliefs and opinions, and as a result you may appear to others to be intolerant, even prejudiced.

Also from your interlife experience in the giant Jupiterian dimension comes your inclination for having great thoughts and big plans dealing with large numbers of people and large amounts of money. In addition to being intemperate and lacking in moderation, at times you are easily led, to the point of being taken advantage of by others. Defeats, especially financial ones, may indeed come through the selfishness of others (in part due to your lack of good judgment in business: avoid speculative investments).

In making your soul flight back to begin a new earth life, you chose a day when malefic Mars and mysterious Neptune, the realm of illusion, were in a challenging pattern. This choice of timing your return to earth life called up for you to meet certain challenges. For example, deception must be avoided at all costs, whether it be insincerity and lack of honesty with yourself or with others. These difficulties with deception will come mostly through other people, and are likely to be projections from your past which are opportunities for transformation, healing and forgiveness.

Also, misuse of psychic and spiritual forces in a past life requires redemption in the present. Another warning from this inharmonious aspect pattern is that any misuse or dependency on any form of drugs or alcohol will be very bad for you and should always be avoided.

'The merchant is never the student, nor is the student ever the merchant.' You might heed this saying, for your experience in Saturn brings you such changes in your career that you may muddle it up by going in too many directions at once. While you have a great deal of soul development potential this lifetime -- and this go 'round for you is critical, as it is for most of us -- you could defeat yourself through an inclination at times to 'give up.' You thereby evade the responsibilities which come with having such powers and talents as you possess.

The main self-defeating pattern to watch out for more specifically involves your Saturnian urges for travel, a change of scene, always wanting a fresh start and taking on far more than you can realistically handle. You are also likely to need constant stimulation, with a tendency toward heroics, (but without sufficiently flexing your own spiritual muscles).

Instead, your heroism and hero worship should be replaced with self-direction through following the IDEALS of spiritual heroes, patriarchs and prophets. An added reason for increasing the role of personal ideals for self-direction is your inclination to exploit situations rather than taking constructive advantage of opportunities.

In a previous life,you may well have had an active role in a rebellion such as the American or French Revolutions. Your rebellious spirit so highly developed during such a lifetime would have drawn you to the dimensions of Saturn and Uranus. You timed your return for this incarnation to begin when these two planets were in the same position in the zodiac -- that is, in conjunction. This pattern offers you a test to pass in this experience by bringing self-will and rebelliousness from your cosmic past for moderation and taming in the present.

From your afterlife experience in its spiritual environment, Saturn has made for a great many changes that have been eminent in your life, though not often made or carried out in your experience. Yet it makes for and is making for, as it were, a new experience in many of the activities in which you may engage in this lifetime. That is, from your between- life experiences in Saturn's realm, frequently heavy changes may be eminent, though not always actualized.

From your Uranian soul journey between lifetimes, you will tend to be strongly centered on -- almost obsessed with -- your drive for freedom and independence. Your likely past life as a rebel will tend to make you resist accepting anyone as having authority over you. Resisting restraint and driving toward freedom and autonomy, your behavior at times may seem erratic, often desiring to do this, then wishing to do that -- and the more unconventional the activity the better!

Yet, from Saturn's influence, you may well be saddled with responsibilities and limitations. This conflict between freedom and responsibility may seem at times more than you can handle, resulting in a tendency toward the other extreme of irresponsibility -- throwing all you've gained out the window. However, with the exertion of your will in connection with your prayer life, you can use this challenge as a means of making pioneering changes of potentially great benefit to others.

In addition, although you are likely to be full of energy and originality, self-discipline and compromise are essential -- part of your test in this life. If you set your democratic ideal of freedom on a stable spiritual foundation and patiently exert your will, you can convert obstinacy and selfishness into enlightened determination -- an essential trait of great leaders and pioneers.

There is also a likely tendency for you to approach life in a very rational way, resulting in your being considered by others as having a rather materialistic turn of mind. At the same time this also gives you the ability to train or direct the training of the minds of young people.

Long ago, one of your likely past lives was in an ideal nature setting, where you were known for your courage and for your ability to heal. From this distant lifetime you are less likely than most people to be dominated by others and you are usually inclined to carry your share of responsibilities. This experience may have been in South or Central America as a member of one of the native cultures in the Amazon forest of Brazil or the Aztec Indians of Mexico.
(And this seems to be true...right now I am so big on saving hte rainforest...in all environmental thingys, but especially the rain forests...)

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.
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A prominent Mercurian lifetime as an Egyptian or Hebrew scribe and/or teacher in colonial Asia, Africa or the early Americas is therefore likely.
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Your soul experience in the realm of Uranus between earth lives, perhaps immediately after you prominent lifetime in Atlantis, gives you distinct potentials for fame or infamy, for evolution or revolution, for service or self. This makes the cultivation and consistent application of guiding ideals of potentially great value for you this go 'round.

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