How exactly do you read a past life in a tarot reading?

[PrincessKLS]

I've had some past life readings where they used tarot cards and I was wondering do you read that in a spread? Like how do you know it was this specific life this person lived?

[kotu]

I've had some past life readings where they used tarot cards and I was wondering do you read that in a spread? Like how do you know it was this specific life this person lived?

A lot of readers have a finely developed intuition so they pick up a lot of info that way, as well as from the cards.

[PrincessKLS]

Yeah but some people can't read them intuitively.

[LisaT4P]

I'm going to be as polite as I can possibly be.

All tarot readings are subjective. You either believe & act on the information you are given or you do not. Either way it is no fault of the reader.

Past life readings are particularly subjective, as no one has a DVR for your life. They can't rewind your soul to see who you were. For all we know you really WERE Cleo-friggin'-patra. The best those of us who read past lives can do is guess based on feelings and intuition that we have. If someone feels that they can't read intuitively THEY SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO DO A PAST LIFE READING.

[Marcel]

If you have a Church of Divine Man near you, they do great aura readings that includes 3 past lives that you yourself have brought closer to now. The reader can tell you what you are trying to bring into your current life that you had in that previous life.

I've had 3 such readings. They are great! You learn alot about yourself. You also get to ask questions. I guess much of that info is in your aura.

I live in Washington state. We have the a few Churches here with most the main one in Everett. I believe Portland Oregon also has a branch.

Other aura readers may be able to give the same information.

Good luck

[1111]

Are the readings in question from this forum? Please PM me privately regarding those issues.

If you are questioning something other than the answers you have already received, I guess I don't understand your response. You asked your question and you received your answer--seems now it it getting into the whole yeah but thing.

[Xentor]

It's intuition as far as I know. How can you tell whether you feel something truly divine? By knowing yourself. It takes time, practice, and patience. Not everyone is cut out for it, though to some it comes naturally.

[aranarose]

Simplest answer? You can't know. There is simply no way to know that they are reading a past life for you or not.

Does it matter? If the reading seems familiar, or makes sense to you, does it matter if it's true in the strictest sense?

If you don't believe in past lives, or you don't believe that the reader can read your past lives, then you shouldn't be asking for past life readings. Period. If you don't trust the reader, you shouldn't get any readings from them, no matter what their reputation might be. Because your lack of trust will polute the reading.

You get exactly what you expect in readings and in life. If you expect fluff, you get fluff. If you expect to get shit on, you get shit on.

[PrincessKLS]

I've also noticed that all the readers I've gone to came up with all different ideas of what lives were.

[PrincessKLS]

Simplest answer? You can't know. There is simply no way to know that they are reading a past life for you or not.

Does it matter? If the reading seems familiar, or makes sense to you, does it matter if it's true in the strictest sense?

If you don't believe in past lives, or you don't believe that the reader can read your past lives, then you shouldn't be asking for past life readings. Period. If you don't trust the reader, you shouldn't get any readings from them, no matter what their reputation might be. Because your lack of trust will polute the reading.

You get exactly what you expect in readings and in life. If you expect fluff, you get fluff. If you expect to get shit on, you get shit on.


I don't exactly agree, I've gotten some unexpectedly good news readings, some unexpectedly bad news readings and in-betweeners.

As far as expecting what to get out of readings. That's one of the reasons I don't allow my sister to do readings for me anymore. I know most likely just like life outside of the readings, she's going to be very bias and negative.

[BlueSage]

I'm going to be as polite as I can possibly be.

All tarot readings are subjective. You either believe & act on the information you are given or you do not. Either way it is no fault of the reader.

actually, there can very easily be fault in the reader. they can get "interested" themselves in the reading and their mind can play tricks on them, give them fake visions or ideas, etc.

[BlueSage]

all of which is "outputted" from the reader him/her self which is also an action of the reader.

[LisaT4P]

Well then, my dear, I suppose you don't need a reading at all, since you can never trust your reader to be telling you the truth. I'll certainly keep that in mind for future reference. :)

[Xentor]

I don't exactly agree, I've gotten some unexpectedly good news readings, some unexpectedly bad news readings and in-betweeners.
And you expect them to be wrong? Did it ever occur to you that those readings served as warnings, meaning you automatically changed your behaviour so with the next reading the outcome is different?


As far as expecting what to get out of readings. That's one of the reasons I don't allow my sister to do readings for me anymore. I know most likely just like life outside of the readings, she's going to be very bias and negative.
This is why you can get 2nd, 3rd, and an umpteenth opinion. If you stay with the same reader, you will make it easier for them to build a connection and interpret the signs. But hey, if you'd rather have an objective view, I suggest you visit your insurance agent instead of your tarot consultant.

[1111]

What? There may actually need to be work done on my part regarding the reading? I thought by getting more and more I would finally here what I want to hear and then would not have to do the work. Scratches head.

[1111]

actually, there can very easily be fault in the reader. they can get "interested" themselves in the reading and their mind can play tricks on them, give them fake visions or ideas, etc.

Wow, and where it is you are being read at? Remind me to stay away from there.

[Shatril]

Sometimes, too many readings are worse than no readings. I really have a fundamental problem with someone who wants readings every other day. The truth is, they haven't even had time to adequately assimilate the previous reading, and act upon the advice. It seems that you really need to look at your motivation for this.

Now onto the past-life readings. I believe that we have all had glimpses or our past lives in dreams. When I get a past life reading, I can say, "Oh yeah, I had a glimpse of this once, and this just fills in some of the blanks." I have had readings that puzzle me, but I don't let that get me, as I believe that we have all had many, many lives. Some of which may just not be memorable because nothing horrific and especially great happened. Sometimes we are here for a physical rest, and knowledge accumulation. (which is why I am here now) If you don't believe at some level in these readings then you wouldn't keep having them. You need to examine your reason for having so many, especially if you aren't believing what the reading is telling you. Maybe it is time that you learn to read your own cards.

As for the readers own crap getting into the reading, well that happens when you have someone that is too close to you read your cards. I have a friend that I just won't let read for me, because most of the time it is her shyt coming out in the reading. :rollingla

Hun ya need to examine your motives, and where you are going with all this stuff. You have obviously stepped on the toes of most of the readers here at MW, and that isn't really nice when they do this for you for free. If you don't trust anyone here then don't ask for readings, cuz what you are getting is crap (it may not really be crap, but you are going to label it crap so it might as well be, when it come to your belief.) Get in touch with your own motivation. It feels like you want to believe, but just can't quite get a handle on your beliefs.

:hugz: Shatril

[~Elise~]

Sometimes, too many readings are worse than no readings. I really have a fundamental problem with someone who wants readings every other day. The truth is, they haven't even had time to adequately assimilate the previous reading, and act upon the advice. It seems that you really need to look at your motivation for this.



I see this time and again at psychic fairs...people go from reader to reader to reader to reader. I've never understood why people did that. It ain't gonna change, folks. (or it shouldn't anyway)

Now if it were different types of readings...say runes instead of tarot. Or Junk Oracle (have a friend who does that and is amazing) or something else totally unique - then I may get more than one reading. (but the core of the readings usually doesn't change)

usually I'm too busy giving readings or vending--but I also try out the other readers to be able to give recommendations to customers on who to go spend their money on. Some only have enough for one reading...and I want them to get the most bang for their buck if they aren't going to get a reading with Rick or myself.

Elise

[Lunacie]

One of my classmates asked me a question last night about doing a past life reading to see if you were an animal in a past life? I said that sounds interesting and we should try that at one of our classes this year. Has anyone else had any experience with that? My opinion is that animal souls are animal souls and human souls are human souls, and there is no crossover. What do the rest of you think?

[LisaT4P]

A friend of mine had a lovely past life regression in which she was surprised to look down & see paws instead of hands! LOL Apparenly she was a Wolf. :)

I would think that using a deck built around animals, such as the Medicine Cards or Animal Wise type of decks would be helpful for this type of reading. Hmmmmm......

[Aidron]

I believe past lives are inherently very personal. That reason, and the fact that unless there are exceptional circumstances (such as issues from a former life causing you distress in this one), is why I have no intention of performing past life readings.

I've done a regression once (and by that I mean I cast a spell to glimpse a former life of mine). It was naturally a very emotional experience, but after having looked through that looking-glass so to speak I have had no real interest in looking through it again. I've lived that life (or those lives) and it's time to focus on this one.

Besides, I feel a lot of people who go searching for past lives just want their ego stroked. I have no interest in laying out my cards for the sake of someone's ego. :2G:

As for how to do it, I'll echo Lisa's words. You simply lay out the keys and open the door(s) to unlock the information you are seeking. There's no way to confirm that the reader was right or wrong to be honest.

[Lunacie]

A friend of mine had a lovely past life regression in which she was surprised to look down & see paws instead of hands! LOL Apparenly she was a Wolf. :)

I would think that using a deck built around animals, such as the Medicine Cards or Animal Wise type of decks would be helpful for this type of reading. Hmmmmm......

Ah... I wonder if anyone in the group has such a deck. Thanks for the suggestion.

... goes off to post a question on our private yahoo group...

[1111]

Let us know what you find out.

[Spookytooth]

Eden Gray has an excellent spread in The Tarot Revealed ISBN 0-451-15673-0 called "The Reincarnation Method." You can pick one up on amazon for less than 2 bucks.

But unless you need to heal some past life pain or try to undo what you did in that past life to prevent you from having to make atonement (yet) again, I think past life regression is quite useless. It does feed the ego, however. "I was a King", or "I was a famous composer." Absolutely useless. I'm with Aidron---why not focus on this life and those you love in the present. I personally believe that your loved ones were your loved ones then as they are now :)

At any rate, before going to a reader about past lives, you should at least have some inkling of an idea of what one of your past lives indeed actually was, if you have had one at all. Some of us are quite new.

[WitchyLady777]

I don't know how it works for everyone else but when it comes to past lives during a reading I will literally "see" images of them like they were pictures on a TV sometimes. Most people today have had many past lives, so it's not that unusual to me to have one reader pick up on certain ones, and another reader pick up on others.

I had one guy who wanted a past life reading from me last year who's past lives revealed a very interesting fact about his personal attractions today, and when I hesitated to mention it he told me to come out with it, and admitted that he was still THINKING about doing that, and was having a hard time with his thoughts because in this life he was raised in strict circumstances and didn't understand what was going on with him.

When I told him what I'd seen in his previous lives, it was like someone flicked a light bulb switch and the unwanted desires that plagued him suddenly became understandable and more managable once he understood there was a connection with the past lives and some of the things he'd experienced there.

No, I am not talking about the guy being gay in this life or a previous one. His problem was a lot more serious than just not being able to come to terms with his gender preference sexually-speaking. Fact is he was highly attracted to a family member, someone he should not have been attracted to, of the opposite gender and disgusted with his unwanted sexual response to her, until he realized that they had been husband and wife, and lovers previously not related in the manner that they are in this life.

It can be VERY hard for some people to go beyond the habits of a previous life spent together sometimes. You are not always related to the same people in your life now in the exact same way in previous lives and people do reincarnate in groups in my experience a lot of the time.

Your brother may have been your husband, your cousin your sister, your best friend, your lover, your husband your mom...

It can get confusing, particularly if you have not left that past life and role behind. There is nothing more disturbing than being attracted to someone you should not be when everything you've been taught tells you that that person is just off limits sexually-speaking.

But I've seen that happen a number of times now and I've seen that it comes from having strong ties in past lives. Sometimes the ties of marriage or parental responsibility just don't fade away and so when you meet someone in the next life part of you wants to relate to them on the previous level, but society and your upbringing says you can't and that can cause some serious conflict within.

It's far better to figure it out what the basis of an issue is and move on, but most people won't, not believing in past lives, so they go through life conflicted or afraid of of certain things and not knowing why, shrug.

[Spookytooth]

This a good example of what past life regression should and could be used for.

Sometimes it isn't so serious as all that, but mundane, like headaches, for example.

My advice is to explore your personal past life via tarot on your own before seeking professional advice because you may not be so lucky to find someone as talented to help you.

Yoga & meditation can help bring you about a closer sense of awareness, brief flashes of past lives as well.

[Shatril]

It can be VERY hard for some people to go beyond the habits of a previous life spent together sometimes. You are not always related to the same people in your life now in the exact same way in previous lives and people do reincarnate in groups in my experience a lot of the time.

Well I have always believed that our friends who have similar goals will reincarnate at the same time. I believe that I am in this life for a rest and to gain insight into eligntenment from a strictly book learning and cooperative conversational way; i.e. MW. This bit of insight has turned on a ligt bulb also. I must have been my husbands mother in a past life, as that is how he feels to me still on many occassions.

:rollignla

Shatril

[WolfPup522]

A friend of mine had a lovely past life regression in which she was surprised to look down & see paws instead of hands! LOL Apparenly she was a Wolf. :)

I would think that using a deck built around animals, such as the Medicine Cards or Animal Wise type of decks would be helpful for this type of reading. Hmmmmm......

As far as the human soul is human soul, animal soul is animal soul... not in my line of thinking. I can tell you personally that looking down and seeing paws was quite a surprise! After the fact, I even realized that it was hard to make words to explain to the person doing the regression where I was.

I highly recommend Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals by Jamie Sams & David Carson if you are interested in animal cards. It was my first deck 15 years ago and it's been my most cherished, accurate and insightful deck all this time.

The bottom line is that you get out of a reading whatever you expect (generally speaking). For example, I expected a good, accurate reading. I had it done by a nationally-published, well respected author and I felt that it would be informative and enlightening. I had a specific issue in this life that I was trying to expand on and I got some interesting information that helped put things in perspective for me. I actually looked at 3 past lives in that session - did I expect to be a wolf in any of them? Of course not! But it did give me valuable information.

If you walk into ANY reading as a sceptic, you will walk out the same way. You have to have an open mind and heart.