Thanks for this idea AM,
Possible astrological techniques for the identification of other lives is fascinating and something I wonder about a lot. Hopefully we will gather together a booty of different techniques to explore our charts with.
The consideration of the nodes is one method, but isn't in depth enough for me. The south node just gives us the general theme of our fate as accumulated from the sum of our previous experience. The north node telling us where we ought to conciously direct ourselves in order to manifest our destiny and the themes we must develop in live's progressing from this. This is interesting but very general.
Retrograde planets are another technique, but I'm not sure about this one. Some people do not have any retrogrades, myself included, so does this mean we have had no prior existences?
Another technique I have heard of is by looking at the 12th cusp. We take the 12th cusp and consider it as the ascendant, and count the houses in reverse. Thus, the 11th becomes the second, the 10th the 3rd and so on, until we come round to the 1st which is the new 12th. Each planet we encounter along the way is said to symbolise a significant past life, the nature of which is discerned from the the nature of the planet and the new house it is in. Has anyone else heard of this technique? Hopefully you can explain it better than me. :?
Radu's link to the zodiacal degree in relation to specific years makes fascinating study in conjunction with our charts. It causes me to wonder however, are the corresponding years to the degrees meant to show a year in the middle of the prior life, the year of birth in that life or the year of death? I am tempted to imagine that the year is describing the year of birth in that life. What do you think?
It is also interesting that as each degree is composed of 60 minutes, if we are to split the degree into 5 minute sections it would be possible to deduce the 12 months of the year (according to our calendar) in each degree, which may even reveal the month of birth! For example, my Jupiter @ 8:40 Scorpio. 8 degrees gives me a birth in 1237, and the 40 minutes would make that birth between August and September, making me a Virgo in that life. However, this causes me to wonder, what method could we use to define the place of birth? If I was born on earth between August and September (our calendar) in 1237, then
where was I born, and what sex was I?
The correspondences of the zodiac to years is very interesting, but why does it only go up to 1950? What if I was born in the 60's and died of cot-death, and was born again in the 80's, where is the 60's life represented? How about lives prior to 48000 BC?
The correspondences are also dependant upon a linear view of time which arouses some difficulties in concept for me. People speak of 'past' lives, which is a term I am uncomfortable with, prefering the term 'other' lives. Our existences run concurrently. Time and space are a condition only of
physical existence, once we are outside the physical, i.e, 'dead', we are beyond time and space, and therefore not attached by conciousness to a specific location in linear time. However, while we are in the physical and subject to conciousness, we can only think sensibly in terms of a linear view, but this begs the question - what about lives lived/being lived/to be lived in the (linear) future of this one? (excuse my ramblings, I'm thinking out loud :? )
I wondered if we could use the list to identify future lives by starting the list with 0 degrees Aries as 1950, where the current list ends and counting the degrees off from there? We could also do the same to explore lives lived prior to 48000 by placing this year at 30 Pisces, and counting off backwards from there? Another thing I've just notced, is that Aquarius 29 is 1909 and Aquarius 30 is 1911, but what if we were born in 1910, why is this not represented by a degree? The gaps just get biger and bigger as we go back in time, but what if you were born in one of the excluded years? Is there any way of altering the chart so that every year in 360 year periods is represented, by starting with 0 AD at 0 Aries perhaps? Then, at 359 AD @ Pisces 30, starting again with 0 Aries at 359 AD and counting on from there?
Just expressing my thoughts.
Hel,
My daughter, incidentally, has always spoke about it being my turn to look after her. She will look after me when I am little again! She mentions things we did when she was big.
It is bizarre and interesting when children come out with these things. My niece once commented to my mother when she was 3, 'Do you remember when I was the grandma and you was the little girl?'. At the same age she once commented to my sister, her mother, when I was present in the room, 'Do you remember when you lived in that big house in London and me and Daddy used to come and visit you?'. My sister was very puzzled by this. We are a long way from London where we are and none of them had ever been there. My niece at that age knew little to nothing about other towns and cities other than the one in which we live, so why did she come out with something so strange as having had 'visited' her mother in London? My sister gets a bit freaked out by things like this, she found it quite disturbing and didn't question her on it. I told her that it was a natural expression of a past life, but she finds such unexplicable things unnerving and didn't question her daughter for more information, much to my disappointment. When I had the opportunity I questioned my niece about this myself, and asked her if she could remember me at all. She squinted her eyes and desperately tried to think and her response was, 'Yes, but.......I can't
remember'. This intrigued me because she didn't say that she didn't know, but that she couldn't
remember, as if she was trying to access a memory which was there, but just couldn't retrieve it.
I shouldn't be going off topic, but I have mentioned astrology.
Draco
