Crystal Prescriptions: The A-Z Guide to Over 1,200 Symptoms and Their Healing Crystals - Judy Hall 2006

Reasons for incarnating together again
Karmic Healing

The shackles of an old love straiten’d him,

His Honour rooted in dishonour stood,

And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

As we’ve seen, people tend to incarnate together time and again in loosely connected soul groups. The underlying reasons can be the same whether the relationship is within the family, a group of friends, or an intimate relationship. Karma, along with soul intention, is playing itself out. I’ve explored this in depth in The Soulmate Myth and The Book of Why, but the reasons are briefly included here so that you can recognise them if you meet them in your ancestral or personal karmic exploration. For further understanding, however, see those books.

Positive reasons

✵ Spiritual bonds

✵ A between life decision that has to manifest

✵ To be soul companions or twinflames

✵ To facilitate soul lessons

✵ Lessons to be learned

✵ Attitudes to be transformed

✵ Appropriate soul contracts

✵ Specific tasks

✵ Catalyst

✵ Positive service

Challenging reasons

✵ Inappropriate soul contracts

✵ Previous relationship(s) carried over

✵ Unfinished business

✵ Habit or inertia

✵ Dependence and symbiosis

✵ Debt or duty

✵ Attachment to mutual unhappiness or happiness

✵ Pacts or promises

✵ Love or hatred

✵ The desire for revenge

✵ Enmeshment

✵ Guilt

✵ Holding on to the heart

✵ Illusions

✵ Karmic bonds

✵ Compulsive emotions

Indications that you have met a member of your soul group

I cannot improve on this list compiled by www.reincarnationstudies.com as it resonates totally with what I have observed from almost fifty years of attending between life planning meetings and reading birthcharts from a karmic perspective. However, I have added a final observation to the list.

Beneficial soul group traits

✵ They mirror or have a similar life experience as you, helping you to understand your situation better.

✵ They highlight your personality traits helping you to change or grow.

✵ They help you to turn your weaknesses into strengths.

✵ They help to balance out your energy and show you a different side of life.

✵ They help you to find patience, understanding and compassion.

✵ They highlight a need for you to heal or let go of certain events or emotions.

✵ You work together to create, brainstorm ideas or bring visions into the light.

✵ They come into your life to help you on your path right when you need it.

✵ They help to advance your soul and your soul journey.

✵ You work together to support global causes or a bigger vision.

✵ They love you enough to assist you in learning the hardest lessons, giving you a tough time when appropriate.

And I would add the challenges that can play out when the karmic treadmill is simply going around and around and people are pulled back to interact without purpose or planning, or where two or more souls have agreed to take it to the extreme so that a breakthrough can be made.

Challenging soul group traits

✵ It feels like the same old, same old — again and again.

✵ Attitudes and experiences are invoked that feel totally against your soul’s own ethical code and belief system.

✵ The relationship is highly destructive.

✵ Intense hatred is experienced on sight.

✵ One person holds total power over another.

✵ The relationship is compulsive, obsessive, addictive and feels like ’I can’t live without this person’ but it brings no joy.

✵ One person shuns or is repelled by another.

✵ Members of a soul group meet again as ’soulmates’ for the purpose of soul growth but the meeting may not be the joyous, trouble free union that people tend to expect from a soulmate relationship: see The Soulmate Myth: A Dream Come True or Your Worst Nightmare?