The fundamental point about astrology is that we were all born at a certain moment in time and we carry with us the seed of that moment.
The best and simplest way to understand the symbolic qualities of that moment and therefore our own lives is to look at the chart of it.
Going forward we experience what is essentially a symbolic interaction between this chart and those of all the other moments that occur during our lifetime.
Astrology is able to predict the consequences of these interactions with uncanny accuracy.
For this to be the case, chance does not come into it, there must be a rational purpose behind it all.
Why are we born at this moment? There must be some reason for it.
The most likely explanation is that we must have some kind of past experience before this birth, that contributes to or even causes us to be born at this precise moment.
If that is the case, then there is an assumption that the astrological themes that we have to explore in this life must be in some way connected to those of the previous one.
So given that there is some kind of linkage, is it possible to deduce something of this by looking at the current natal chart?
For the best part of 50 years I have felt that some form of reincarnation is the most likely answer to the basic question of why astrology works, but until now I have been quite dismissive of the attempts of the few astrologers who are prepared to go down the route of trying to make deductions about a client’s past lives from the chart of their current one.
As a Sun, Moon and Ascendant Capricorn, I need to experience something working in practice before I’m inclined to believe it, a requirement that I believe has worked very well for me in the often nebulous field of astrology.
But when dealing with the whole question of previous lives, actual experience is obviously hard to come by, so most people would go on a combination of gut feeling and intuition.
Since transit Pluto conjoined my natal Moon and my life turned upside down, I have had a number of visions of my own previous lives, having never experienced this before. This is because since then I met, fell in love with (again) and married (again) my soulmate, and in the process left my old life behind and moved to the other side of the world.
These visions even involved the ending of our last two shared lives, including the years involved – 1915 and 1950.
In both lives I died along with my soulmate while in my early thirties, one being during the First World War.
Over the last five years I have come to recognise that major progressions involving the Sun and/or Venus will bring important members of our soul groups into our lives. This seems to work whether or not you believe in reincarnation because it will simply and clearly point to the time when you first met your principle 7th house partner.
I have explored examples of this in a series of articles – Progressed Soulmate Synastry
When I first discovered serious astrology, secondary progressions were used much more widely than they are today.
There was even a method called converse progressions which took a planet backwards by one day equating to one year. This method was chiefly supported by an eminent English astrologer called Ronald Davison, who stated that major aspects by this reverse method would indicate key periods and events in this life.
I researched it, as I have for so many astrological methods, and found it to be nonsense, the evidence being put forward to support it could easily be found in other more conventional astrological methods. I actually dismissed this one by stating that the most significant part of the word converse was the first three letters.
I like to begin my day with a two hour walk along my local, deserted Australian beach at sunrise. For me this is a time of meditation, I try to focus my attention on the contact my feet make with the sand and allow thoughts to come and go like the waves, rising and falling back into themselves.
Most of the time these thoughts are relatively mundane, but the kind of thing that my mind loves to latch onto in order to distract me from the simple pleasure of being in the moment. Occasionally they are of a very different order, and these are frequently a powerful source of astrological inspiration.
When these come, I see them as direct instructions from the Universe and I feel compelled to write articles about the subject.
The other day, I had a very strong one about converse progressions, a method that I hadn’t thought about for the best part of 40 years.
The idea was that if forward progressions would determine when you met your soulmate, was it possible that backward ones could point to a time when you met up in a previous life?
I have Venus at 22 Scorpio. It is in my 9th house conjunct Saturn at 18 Scorpio and square to Pluto in my 7th at 26 Leo. It is also trine to my Uranus and Jupiter also in my 7th at 26 and 27 Cancer.
As my Sun is at 4 Capricorn, its distance from my Venus is quite far at 42 degrees (the maximum possible is 48). This along with the conjunction with Saturn explains why I did not meet my soulmate until very late on in my life.
The 9th house placing and the trines with Uranus and Jupiter, show that we would come together through astrology despite the fact that we lived on opposite sides of the world.
The square with Pluto shows the totally sudden and unexpected nature of this meeting as neither of us were looking for love. In fact I had always assumed that my Venus/Saturn conjunction was denying me that experience in this life because I had to focus all my energy on my work.
If I progressed my Sun backwards through time it would reach a conjunction with my Venus in 1911-12 and with Saturn in 1907-08.
I feel I should point out that secondary regressions, like the progressions are a very slow method of one day per year so this is the only time my regressed Sun would make a conjunction to my natal Venus since the mid 16th century.
So by this method I met my soulmate in my previous life in 1911-12
From my earlier vision of this life, I believed that I had been married before but my first wife had died a few years are earlier, which could fit with the progression to Saturn.
But the thing that really alerted was that my regressed Sun would make its square aspect to my Pluto in 1915-16. Which exactly coincided with my belief that we both died in an incident in 1915. This happened in tragic and unusual circumstances and also involved long distance travel.
So very much Venus conjunct Saturn in the 9th house square Pluto in the 7th then.
One significant point to make is that the square to Pluto was the first aspect my regressed Sun made. So there is nothing in this method that identifies any of the happenings to do with my vision of my last life which ended in 1950.
But there is in my wife’s chart.
Like me, she also has a Venus / Pluto aspect (an opposition) involving the 9th house. And her progressed Venus formed the only aspect of her life to that Pluto (a trine) when we met.
Her Sun is at 9 Aries, Venus is 17 Pisces and Pluto at 21 Virgo.
If we apply the same reverse progressions to her chart, her Sun would reach back to conjunct her Venus in in 1945-46, suggesting that we met up again then.
Her regressed Sun would therefore have opposed her Pluto in 1949-50, exactly when we died according to my visions of my last life. Just like in 1915, we died together in a sudden and violent incident that also had 9th house qualities.
So to sum up, we both have Venus/Pluto 9th house themes.
Both of us had progressed Venus aspecting our Pluto when we met up in this life (hers was a trine, mine was a quincunx).
Our regressed Suns conjoined our respective Venuses when we met up in our last two lives.
Those lives ended tragically and suddenly when our regressed Suns aspected our Plutos.
We also both believe that our ex partners were involved in our deaths in these previous lives.
I had a dysfunctional, unhappy first marriage in this life. Our synastry explains why this is, as it is challenging.
My ex has Venus at 18 Aquarius in the 8th house closely square to a Taurus Moon. These are in square and opposition to my own Venus/Saturn in Scorpio.
If we regress her Sun back to its conjunction with her 8th house Venus ( and square to my Saturn ) we get to 1913-15. This would seem to confirm my belief that she was there when we died in that previous life.
My wife and soulmate’s main synastry with her own ex is also challenging.
He has a T Square based on a Mars/Saturn opposition focusing on an apex Sun in Scorpio in the 8th house. His Sun is tightly opposite her Mars.
If we look at his own regressed Mars it reaches the exact square with his 8th house Sun in 1950, ( and also square to her Mars) at the time when we died in our last life.
Because of these events we both recognise that we were kept apart in our current life until we had worked with our karma with these two souls.
It is extraordinary, but the synastry that we both have with our ex spouses does point to this theme of them being complicit in our previous deaths, although up until that point they had no involvement in our lives.
So therefore our own secondary regressions and those of our ex’s correspond exactly to the moments we all met up in our previous lives.
When I first read about converse progressions, forty odd years ago, I never came across anything that related to the past or previous lives. They were said to relate to the current life in the same way that ordinary progressions would do.
But my discovery of this secondary regressions method, clearly times our contact with these two people to coincide with the roles in our previous deaths that we had suspected them to have.
I am someone who has a high proof threshold, and it is very difficult for astrological methods to get past it. I will not believe anything until I can see it working consistently in practice.
Naturally anything to do with reincarnation is impossible to prove, but these findings have confirmed my own view of my last two incarnations, together with many of the reasons for these lives and their connections with each other.
And that this method of secondary regressions is the way to link them all up.
It goes without saying that this is difficult to research but there are some Buddhist traditions with records of the timing of previous lifetimes and I have begun to apply the method to them, so far with similarly extraordinary results.
I plan to write more pieces on this method to showcase this research.
If anyone would like to explore any of their own previous life connections as part of their Progressed Life Support package, I would be happy to help out.
As I approach my 69th birthday, I feel it is the right time to start this converse-ation.
Posted on 6th December 2023
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