How Astrology Can Help You Learn About Your Past Life

Karma is usually carried forward from your past lives. Your previous lives have a huge impact on your present journey. The lives you lived before influence your current life, thoughts, patterns, and experiences. Understanding your soul’s journey can help you understand your current life path. It can also help you repay your karmic debts.

Since we don’t remember our past lives, it becomes difficult for us to understand what we did who we offended or how we hurt them. The only recourse seems to be to quietly and patiently bear the results of our actions and learn the lessons we are taught in this life.

However, you need not go through the karmic cycle blindly. Astrology can help you gain insight into your soul’s journey through different lifetimes and the lessons it needs to learn in this lifetime. In fact, the placements in your birth chart can guide you in outlining your past life and understanding its impact on your present life, and it can also give you a glimpse into your future lives.

The birth chart outlines the journey of your life as planned by the stars. It tells you about your origins, the conditions at the time of your birth, and how your life may turn out to be if you let the stars play out the story planned for you based on your karma and destiny.

Along with this it also gives you insight into how you may repay your debts accrued from previous lifetimes and improve your present and future.

Each planet, house, and other celestial bodies that make up your birth chart influence some area of your life, including your past life. So to understand your past life, you should look at and understand the nature of the following houses and planets in your birth chart:

Each house governs some specific areas of your life. So to understand your past life you need to look at a few houses in the birth chart and integrate their meaning. The houses you need to check are the twelfth house, the ninth house, the fifth house, and the sixth house.

The twelfth house is associated with invisible enemies, karma, and suffering. The kind of karmic lessons you may have to go through in this lifetime are determined based on the placements of the planets in this house and their nature. If there are no planets in this house it suggests you have repaid all your debt and you are free of karma.

The ninth house represents wisdom and religious inclination. It also tells of your good luck or your destiny based on your actions in your previous lifetime.

The fifth house rules conception, offspring, pleasure, and recreation and also keep an account of the good deeds from your past life.

The sixth house governs health, well-being, and routine and also keeps an account of your accumulated unpaid debts or karma from past lives.

Like the houses, there are certain planets that are associated with past life and the debts accrued in those lives. Studying the placements, relationships with other planets, and the nature of these planets along with the houses can give you an insight into the journey of your soul thus far and the debts that you need to repay.

Saturn, known as the taskmaster, teacher, and disciplinarian, is one of the most important planets to analyze for past life. Saturn gives out lessons based on your karma. And if it is placed in any of the houses dealing with past life karma, it becomes even more important to understand its nature. To fully grasp the impact of Saturn on your life, you must also look at the aspects Saturn forms and its relationship with other planets.

Jupiter bestows luck, fortune, wealth, and good health. Like Saturn keeps an account of your past misdeeds, Jupiter keeps an account of your good deeds from past life and accordingly gives you blessings in this life.

Rahu and Ketu are two opposite ends of the convergence of the Sun and the Moon. While Rahu represents your present and future, Ketu symbolises your past life. To fully understand your past life and how it is impacting your present and future, you also need to study the placement and the nature of Rahu and Ketu in your birth chart.

Among the two, Ketu has a larger influence on the narrative of your past life. The planets that Ketu connects with, the house it is placed in, and the sign it is placed in will tell you about the qualities that you possessed in your past life and that you have carried forth with you in this life. In relationship charts, it will tell you of the type of relationship you had with the other person.

Planets in retrograde means that the planet is moving backwards (not actually!) and its energy is blocked or suppressed. These planets also hold a key to past life interpretation. It is believed that if you have a planet in retrograde in your chart, you may be carrying forth some karmic debts related to the aspects of the planet's rules.