
Self and Spirit · 4 cards
Past Life
A past life as a metaphor for the lessons that keep coming back
History
Past-life spreads spread after the Theosophical movement of the late nineteenth century brought ideas of reincarnation to the West. Most readers today use it as a metaphor: the past life stands for a pattern that keeps returning, and this life's task is to finish or break it.
What to ask
When you keep stumbling over the same kind of problem and want to see the lesson underneath.