Past Lives: Things You’re Pulled Towards
Astrology in real life.
My husband and I started watching the miniseries, Rome, last night. I believe my husband to be a Roman soldier in another life, he believes the same, so it is always very interesting to watch programs like this. It is interesting because he such insight into the psyche of times. He is every bit as brutal in this life as he was back then, and he interacts with the TV.
He really prefers the short Roman sword, for example, to other swords he has fought with, presumably. He jabs the air with terrifying, focused strength, explaining how it can be jabbed into the ribs, while you block with your shield. “It’s a superior weapon,” he said.
“Why didn’t people copy it?” I asked.
“When you fought the Romans, there was usually no one left alive,” he said, gleefully. He’s got some pride about this for sure. And loyalty. No matter what a Roman soldier does, my husband is on his side. He sees his point of view and only his point of view. He really thinks this period was glorious and would go back to it in a minute, if it were possible.
Another thing I notice, is when a weapon is drawn, my husband will twitch. He wants to grab one of those swords so bad, it’s all he can do remain seated. Sitting next to him, you can feel the adrenaline that runs through him. It leaves you with no doubt, he knows exactly what to do with a Roman sword and shield.
It’s sort of like watching a sleeping dog dream, but more vivid, because he will blurt out his opinions and/or reaction to whatever is going on in the movie, in the vernacular of the time, if you can believe that. He will make a remark and then the character on screen will make nearly the same remark, though my husband has never seen the show. The mindset is the mindset, and he’s got this mindset – period.
So this goes on and it has for years. But last night as he was explaining the soldier groaned about having to take a man they’d crucified off a cross because “he just got him up there”, I realized if I were no longer an astrologer and I watched a program that had charts lying all over, I would be dying to pick them up and hold them too. I would probably also twitch, and involuntarily reach out to pick up the stack of charts and work with them.
This is how merged, astrology is with my soul. It’s quite a thing to realize. Maybe I have had prior lives after all.
Is there something you’re pulled towards in this way? What is it?
45 Responses to “Past Lives: Things You’re Pulled Towards”
Being near him during a fight scene, it gives a person a very good idea of just how brutal this fighting was. My husband is strong as an ox and those soldiers used their swords with no hesitation.
“The short sword goes right in…” He describes this stuff in these terms. They go into battle, knowing they are the superior fighting force, and they will prevail.
In this film, the Centurion has no idea how to deal with a woman/his wife. This is something my husband tries to tell me all the time. He thinks it’s such bullshit – he’d rather be fighting.
He’s really funny as hell. He said during The Tudors, “If you see me with a sword, you best heed me. Heed me, or prepare to defend yourself, and you won’t have long to do it.”
Okay, you may not think that’s funny, but I do and that’s why we’re married. 
Amazing how you brought this to life Elsa. I feel as though I’m there with you.
I think I was a shaman in a past life. I am drawn to healing.
Is there anything about the Soldier that is not awesome? It’s very interesting that some people’s memories (if that’s what they are) seem close to the surface.
Interesting to envision your husband interacting with what he’s watching like this, especially thinking of how you’ve said he doesn’t talk a lot!
I feel this way about the healing arts, and to some degree astrology. It could be a Neptune/12th opp Jupiter/6th thing, but I still can’t recall exactly how I started studying astrology (or even how I found this blog, although obviously the Internet was involved, lol).
I had past life recall, very intensely when I began doing healing work. I was lucky to have a guide but she left me on my own. She left me on my own because she seemed to know that I was back where I was supposed to be, but it was unnerving. This was when t.Saturn was in my 8th.
SN in cancer conjunct merc & mars. Taking care of people, it’s not something I ever even think about. It’s as natural a part of who I am as my next breathe. I’ve noticed this because when I have to set a boundary and NOT take care of someone, it is so Hard to do.
Your husband is truly amazing in what he remembers! That said, I’m pretty certain I’ve been a stage artist/singer in at least two life times.
BTW, I also love the fact you are watching “Rome”. Apart from the fact the British actors don’t look anything like Romans depicted on murals, this was an amazing series. One of the few I started watching and got husband hooked to as well. I’m now trying to do the same with “Game of Thrones”, because I know he’ll love it, but he just has to get over the fact there are dragons and unicorns involved.
He and I have something in common about the t.v viewing…my 14 year old is always telling me that its only movie stop it but I get so absorbed in what I’m watching…I prefer the historical shows and movies also and identify with the Roman era. But there is one movie that I was drawn to and felt kinship with and it was about Countess Bathory. I believe the occult and christianity go hand in hand unlike most people.
I am not actually sure he is “remembering”. Outside of facts like he can use a smart phone, if you were able to pull one of those soldier out of there and interview them alongside my husband, their answers and attitudes would be indistinguishable from each other.
And he does not think *he* is wrong or behind the times. He thinks *you* are a moron.
I had a strong pull towards Germany and WWII, the victim side. I ended up moving there years ago and the feeling kind of dropped off, like I went back and took care of something, but I have no idea what exactly it was.
Do you always degrade people for *him* and call them names…is he incapable of doing that *himself*…to me thats retarded to ask someone what they are drawn to and then turn around and demean them for their answer…thats intolerance at its best…
Pagan Baby, I really don’t think her comment was aimed at you. You’ve got to remember, this is not necessarily like a normal conversation where every answer comes immediately in response to what was last written
I don’t think she means “you” as in you PB. She means you as in other.
He thinks his thinking is practical (at any time) and other peoples thinking is dangerous to their survival. At least that is how I read it.
***sarcasm abounds** you got me wrong…I was being a Roman priestess full of herself…hahaha
Wow, Brizo and I are trying to be nice, and we get sarcasm back? Ouch!
My son’s father was a soldier — then a truck driver. Now a mercenary. I relate to this absolutely, seeing a man react to his past life and being drawn back again and again to The War. In fact that’s one of the reasons I left him to tell you the truth. I remember looking at him one day and saying, you know something? I’m done with the war. I’m not fighting it anymore. You know what smart modern people do in wartime? Do ya? They RUN AWAY.
. I really said that. The War was a state of mind, not just a situation and it went on endlessly, endlessly from the very day I met him.
Which is in fact another argument for past lives.
I really don’t think I was married to him though in our past associations. I think I fought with him. I have the strangest type of sympatico with deep and serious emergency, with war and wartime, with extreme hardship, with making the best possible choice when there is no choice at all.
I remember one thing I felt I had to do for my son was to teach him what to do in case of invasion and attack. I didn’t do this in some crazy way but…he got all the information, especially after his father was gone. Fresh water, what to do when there is a conventional blast, what to do when there is a nuclear blast outside of twenty clicks and you’re still alive. What will be working, what will not. When to stay and assess, when to get the fuck out in a fight that’s about to start.
I taught him about the Dragon Line in streetfighting, how to judge another man’s line of attack. i told him the four ways to run a war. I have no idea why I told him all this but the weirder thing is — * I have no idea how i knew it myself*.
One reason I believe in past lives is because somehow I ended up in the thick of that instead of in some other destiny — one that would have made more sense given my education and background and upbringing. I should have been a Rhodes scholar, gone to Yale or Brown.
Instead, there I was, 24 years old with a baby on my hip, watching the broken refugees stream in from Bosnia without a single shred of control over what would happen to me.
“Do you always degrade people for *him* and call them names…is he incapable of doing that *himself*…to me thats retarded to ask someone what they are drawn to and then turn around and demean them for their answer…thats intolerance at its best…”
Huh?
I’m no troll thats from another lifetime and place but I love it when people take notice and repeat my words…I couldn’t refer to myself as a vestal virgin — been in the backseat of a couple of chariots myself…loves da gladiators
I love anything Tudor. Dont know why. It just feels alive to me.
please accept my apologies…I didn’t mean to appropriate this blog…just wanted to get folks talking..that’s all and btw my son tells me that I wasn’t a troll in a past life, that I am one. I just like to make people laugh. My 3rd cousing was one of the first clowns for Barnum and Bailey and Dame May Whitty though deceased now was a distant cousin…I’m very humbly sorry. I’ve been told by a pyschic (I will not give his name) that I do have past lives and I died when I was 4 years old but by GODs grace I was given a chance and 3 more spirits were able to come back thru me. I’m not crazy and I’m not evil but if people knew they would say I was of the devil.
Sigh, what can I say here without feeding a troll? Except that you are one fierless lady, Elsa, and this is just the reason why people keep quiet about experiences like this. I know, for the fact, they are much more common you’d think, because once you are seen as an open minded person, people do come to you, telling about all sorts of weird stuff that has happened to them, and they simply can’t explain, from the purely scientific point of view.
I believe in past lives but I don’t have actual memories of them that I can put my finger on. Just strong of things that I haven’t been exposed to or personally experienced.
I do know that I am drawn to stonework and wood carving. I will see a doorway or arch and simply deconstruct it so that I can rebuild it in my mind. I think about houses and buildings and how they are put together, all of the time. I dream of houses full of different kinds of rooms and find myself walking through them.
I like movies that take place in different kinds of houses. One of my favorites is “The Lake House” with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves. I will pause it just to stare at the house and figure out how it was built and what I would do differently or better.
I carved a lotus design into panel of wood taking two years to finish and it felt like coming home every time I at down to work on it.
Does those things count?
Spelling embarassment….
@eva – That’s fascinating!
Well there must be a reason why I enjoy being a crazy cat lady although I have other easier & more comfortable options of living my life, my BF suffers because of it but nobody in my life compares to the love I feel for these creatures, and I have MANY!!!
@ shadesofblack – I think those things count.
@ eva – it certainly is fascinating. I have a compulsion about potential emergency situations too; natural disasters and also invasion or attack. Bit exhausting that one.
You do describe it beautifully vividly Elsa,and there are various historical periods that I experience as a vivid physical or emotional trace memory. Certain parts of WWII is one.
btw, thanks for your welcome the other day. 
I have almost zero connection to European history.
Now northern Africa, I have always felt a draw there. Sort of Moorish Spain and all that. I even did this silly little “put in your birthday and we’ll tell you your past life” in 5 seconds and it said I was a nomad in northern Africa. I could believe that with ease. I read about Freya Stark’s life, exploring until then unknown territory (to white folks at least) in northern Africa where she befriends Bedouin tribespeople and created a connection she wrote about in her journals. I didn’t even finish her book but it still reverberates in my soul.
Discoverers also. I am so fascinated with people who explore for a living I don’t know if this was me, but the Age of Discovery is far more fascinating to me than any royalty. I don’t have very noble bones. I like revolution and freedom and standing up for the little guy. Anyone who stood up against a nation on principle, hearing their story sends vibrations through every cell in my body. I want to be with them. I want to do what they do and be who they are, I just don’t know how.
SN in Aquarius
My husband and his brother, now, I think they knew each other in a past life. They both resonate soooo deeply with the soldier ethic. They are “silver souls,” if any of you are familiar with Plato…my husband became an expert in ancient Greek philosophy. They both have incredible minds for philosophy too. His brother barely finished 6 years of schooling and he’s brilliant at this. My husband studied it in college, but he started out not even speaking English and ended up being more coherent at it than anyone I’ve encountered since. It’s really odd — they are both very analytical, have all these stoic values and black and white views on things…personal matters interest them very little. They like hearing about ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, so, I’d be interested to see what they were.
My husband was probably a tax collector or wealthy caesar (SN in Taurus lol) and his brother was probably some sort of general (SN in Capricorn) They were definitely in cahoots, even back then LOL
I own both seasons of this series and it’s the BEST! Enjoy Elsa!!!
1850-1900 … I am drawn to this time period. I feel like I either lived in these times or should have. I am certainly in the wrong time period now. Like a fish out of water :/ When I watch movies like “Little Women” or Meet me in St. Louis I long to ‘go home’ …if you can imagine that. That longing led me to buy this crazy old house I live in today. Filled with furniture from that time period. I am more at home in this house than I have ever been anywhere else. And the house is really not practical at all. In fact its a pain in the ass. We have hideous power bills and its too big for us. But, we are connected (both my husband and I) to this time period for some insane reason even though the neighborhood is going to hell in a handbasket.
1800′s are def what I connect with the most. I long for that time period for some reason. There are times I have dreams about it and just wish I could go back home….isn’t that crazy?
thanks for the question elsa. i have felt very strongly about australia and atlantis ever since i was a little child.
same goes with astrology & heeling.
lately, i have come to believe that i must have lived a shielded (as in monastry) kind of life since i have issues handling every day matters.
That is absolutely fascinating and definitely makes me want to pay more attention to what I am innately drawn to.
Mothering is one. It is completely natural. I dont have all the answers to todays modern problems but i know instinctually how to nurture a child.
I think USA has a lot of common with the Roman Empire..a lot of old karma
For my self I fought the romans (not with the sword)
The Aussie is a soldier too … so yea I can relate to what Elsa is saying about her husband. The aussie believes he’s been a warrior in many lifetimes too. Runs very strong in him. He’s had many dreams about our past lives together.
I can also relate to what eva said above. I seem to have a good sense of strategy and not sure exactly where it’s come from. Feels innate to me in some way. Perhaps past lives have been about military strategy – where I’d be fighting along side the Aussie, not waiting by the home fires for him to come back from wherever.
I’m drawn to old typewriters, the ones that were built so strongly you could run over them with a car and not damage them. When I type on such a machine, I feel a deep connection to … something? I think I may have been a writer in another life.
I think that I was some type of healer with sons in the military. It’s weird how many platonic little brothers which I have collected over the years. I also seem to be a magnet for damaged Aqua males. However, that could have to do with my Aries sun.
i have unbreakable emotional and philosophical ties to the native american indians and the picts, particularly a band that left ruins in portugal.
i dont care too much why – or i cant summon the energy to, which ever. i am one with them and that is that. i live every day, as much as today’s System allows, as though i am living with their creed through all eternity.
but if you ask me if i believe in reincarnation, i always answer that i am completely open to it but the jury is still out.
somehow, this is not a contradiction to me. (i know, aint none stranger than folk.) thus, i LOVE conversations about this topic.
also, i find that i am all about my NN and have trouble relating to what my SN is supposed to be all about. it is genuinely a way of being that i dont know how to naturally be. not very comforting to be so wierd!
Oh, I like this post Elsa! I am bit confused at some of the above content, but oh well. For the life of me, I cannot figure out why I love everything Russian and have since a very, very young age. There’s no particular reason. My parents didn’t have any likings towards the history. In junior high school and high school, I was lucky enough to have classes offered in Russian studies and still to this day, have a strong leanings. From what I understand, my great, great, great grandfather was of Russian decent, but not sure of the ‘past life’ tie. I hope one day to travel to the new country, but I wouldn’t give to have lived in the Russia of 1700′s. Or maybe I did! 
Two areas have pulled me for decades. Atlantis, assuming it existed, has always fascinated me. Rome, like Elsa’s husband, is another pull for me.
this is why my father never could do SCA (society for creative anachronism) even when all his college friends were into it. you put a sword in his hands and set him up in a fight and his body just went for all those killing blows. it’s reflex. he’s kind of out of place in the now, too 
i remember hating hoop skirts ;P and a few other things
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How interesting! You’ve described it so well, I can just picture your husband brandishing his imaginary sword about the living room! haha
I have no way to know for sure of course, but I think that I may have been a scientist/analyst in a past life. An ‘observer’ of events and how people responded. I know in this life, it’s difficult for me to come out from behind the scenes and be part of the action.