The Many Deaths And Rebirths In Your Lifetime

You have already died many deaths. Many versions of you will ‘die’ in this lifetime. And, many versions of you will be reborn.

Of course, you have also passed through the veil between this life and the next for many past lives. But in this case, I am referring to ‘deaths’ we suffer in this lifetime.

We can identify these dramatic changes, transitions, shifts, or ‘deaths’ in our astrological chart. Your Saturn Return, for example, occurs around the time of our 30^th birthday. Our Saturn Return forces us to take an honest look at everything we may have been avoiding until now. It forces us to make much needed changes and improvements. It is the ending of our youth and the birth of our new adult self.

We do not remain the same person throughout our lifetime. Our goals, ideas, and life lessons all serve their purpose until they are phased out to let in new information, new ideas, and new opportunities for growth. If we do this right, life keeps changing us. We continue to grow and expand.

For this purpose, it is wise to interact with people who have different beliefs, practice other religions, and have other political affiliations compared to our own. And more importantly, to really listen to them. We must allow all the information in and trust our intuition to let our beliefs and understanding of life continuously evolve.

Our life experiences constantly challenge and change our ideas, goals, and views. We are constantly shedding our old skin. Just as our body changes every day we are alive, so does our soul. We take in every experience, whether we know it or not. It’s like adding ingredients to a recipe.

Embrace these deaths and births along your life path. They are needed for your soul growth and spiritual expansion. I’ve witnessed over the years some people really fighting change and resisting growth…and it always makes them miserable. Fluidity and acceptance are spiritually essential. Simplicity will bring you inner peace.

A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains that bind us ~ Marianne Williamson

Many of us look back at our lives at times and feel we are not exactly where we envisioned to be by now. Or we feel we are not doing what we hoped or imagined we would be doing. But, the truth is you are exactly where you are supposed to be at this moment in time.

For example, there was a time when I desperately wanted to purchase a house in the woods. It was a dream come true when I discovered it. It had a magical, unique rock wall like a castle! But I was unable to get fire insurance, even though there hadn’t been a fire in 40 years in that area. So, I had to let it go and bought an ordinary suburban house on cull de sac instead.

About month later, reading the local newspaper, I found out that house in the woods had completely burnt to the ground. Al that remained of it was that rock wall I admired so much. The house was gone. Thank God for divine intervention preventing me from buying the place. Thank God I did not end up where I believed I wanted to be.

Deaths can be painful, and so can births. Just like physical deaths and births, we can ease the pain and discomfort with meditation, breathwork, and various spiritual practices. It is also vital to surround yourself with loving, empathetic people.

The pilgrimage raised me from a place of hopelessness to one of hopefulness. As it had done each time I needed a spiritual rebirth, it offered strong medicine for my ailing psyche as it signaled the beginning of my next never-ending adventure and pulled and pushed me toward more parts of the unexplored and unknown ~ Linda Durham

Your attitude towards these births and deaths will determine how quickly and easily you will move through life’s passages. By the end of your current physical life, you will have the new ‘soul skin’ you came to acquire in this life, and you will have earned it. There will be an added softness and depth to your soul, where there was hardness before. There will be balance and harmony.

By the end, you will be your truest self. You will have shedded the ego, the envy, the greed, the materialism, the attachment, the anger, the competition. All that will be left is love and light. For that is who you truly are. So, let it be.