Client Case Study: Roger

Roger is a man in his mid fifties who came to see me for a karmic astrology reading to learn more about his relationship issues.

Over many past lives, people are shaped by environments from past lives which affect their current emotional state through unconscious memories. The circumstances that surrounded us in a past life is what we expect our world to reflect today, usually in terms of beliefs and limitations. These unconscious memories often cause difficulties in this current life. Therefore, it is very important to uncover what these unconscious memories and beliefs are, in order to deal with them in the present.

With the south node in Taurus in the 7^th house, Roger knows a lot about relationships, relating and learning about balance through these partnerships. He was influenced by people who were learning about self-worth and self-value, while gathering skills, resources, money and learning about basic issues of survival and stability.

Aspects to the south node show up in our current life as friction from other people, and repetitive, unhealthy patterns. Roger experienced wounding to his self image and self worth whenever he was expressing his creativity or his own authentic self. Whenever he tried to express his unique abilities, he met with resistance from others. Roger will experience fear, difficulty and discomfort in this life when he expresses his unique creativity, in whatever way that manifests.

The ruler of the south node, Venus and its aspects are the roles he played in past lives. This is important because these are the roles that feel familiar to him in this life, and he will have expectations of himself to fulfill the same type of role, even if its not enjoyable or what he really wants to do. This familiar role is not always what the soul wants to experience this time around.

Roger's south node ruler Venus, is in Capricorn in the 3rd house. He was a very hard-working, responsible person with a lot of ambition, looking for respect and recognition from others. He valued learning, exploring and communicating with others. Looking at his south node, we can imagine that he did not receive the respect and recognition he was looking for, since every time he expressed himself creatively he was shut down by others.

Aspects to the south node ruler indicate that he received a lot of friction from large, well know religious leaders and/or members of his family who had very strong opinions and had no problems expressing these opinions to him.

Pluto represents the soul's greatest desires and also the soul's greatest wounds that we have from a past life, with similar wounding also occurring early in this life. Most people create their current life unconsciously to avoid this deep wounding and pain. We become disempowered by doing this because our journey of empowerment begins with fulfilling our soul's mission. True empowerment has everything to do with our relationship to ourselves, not our relationship to others. Roger's Pluto is in Virgo in the 11^th house. His soul's deepest desire is to be of service to others through healing, health or being a mentor or example to others. He needs to create freedom for himself and break free of worldly restrictions, while putting his own creativity and imprint of originality into the world. Aspects to Pluto give more information on this theme. Pluto is square his Sun in Scorpio in the first house, meaning he must learn his truth, to trust himself, be honest with himself and to learn about the healthy use of his own power. He is here to learn about his will, how to assert himself and be the leader he was meant to be, all in a conscious, healthy way.

From some of the above information regarding what is familiar to him from a past life, we see that his soul's deepest desire will not be easy for him.

Roger's north node is in Scorpio in the first house. The north node represents areas of life that the soul wants to learn about and grow and expand into. This is new territory for him, and there may be many fears surrounding this new way of being. His north node is conjunct Mars, the planet of strength, willpower and action. His new direction is to explore leadership in a healthy, empowered way based on his own truth and belief in his authentic self.

After this reading, Roger was able to see why some of the repeated patterns in his life were disempowering him. With a clear picture of what unconscious memories he was carrying from past lives and what his soul needs to do in this life, he was able to make conscious choices about his relationships, and feel more confident in himself and what he needs to do to achieve his soul's purpose.