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Discovering Your Soul Mission: How to Use Karmic Astrology to Create the Life You Want
If you have a nagging feeling that somehow your life has gotten off track, Discovering Your Soul Mission can help you create the most fulfilling life possible. Karmic astrologer and holistic teacher Linda Brady, along with coauthor Evan St. Lifer, shows how the desires of our personalities--what we think we want--clash with the needs of our souls--what will make us truly happy.
In order to pinpoint your soul mission, Brady uses the technique of karmic astrology, which--unlike the more familiar sun-sign astrology--delves into areas known previously only to the cognoscenti. With this easy-to-use method, you do not have to get an astrological chart. All the required information is provided to instantly discover the sign ruling your soul mission. You will learn your Soul Pattern sign, which governs old habits you need to let go, and your Soul Potential sign, which indicates your latent qualities and hidden talents that must be developed to follow your true path. Virgo perfectionism, for instance, can give way to Pisces intuition, Sagittarian procrastination to Gemini creativity.
Brady then offers numerous meditation, journaling, dreamwork, and other exercises to explore and incorporate your soul mission into your current life. Other planetary influences also shape the particular flavor of your mission. For example, the book includes tables to find out what sign rules your style of communication and shows you how to use that personal style to further enhance your mission. This lively, interactive handbook will set you on your true path.
In order to pinpoint your soul mission, Brady uses the technique of karmic astrology, which--unlike the more familiar sun-sign astrology--delves into areas known previously only to the cognoscenti. With this easy-to-use method, you do not have to get an astrological chart. All the required information is provided to instantly discover the sign ruling your soul mission. You will learn your Soul Pattern sign, which governs old habits you need to let go, and your Soul Potential sign, which indicates your latent qualities and hidden talents that must be developed to follow your true path. Virgo perfectionism, for instance, can give way to Pisces intuition, Sagittarian procrastination to Gemini creativity.
Brady then offers numerous meditation, journaling, dreamwork, and other exercises to explore and incorporate your soul mission into your current life. Other planetary influences also shape the particular flavor of your mission. For example, the book includes tables to find out what sign rules your style of communication and shows you how to use that personal style to further enhance your mission. This lively, interactive handbook will set you on your true path.
267 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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April 12, 2007
"How to Use Karmic Astrology to Create the Life You Want"
Amazing read... should be read together with other books on karmic astrology - those by Jan Spiller, for example. The books helps to define your soul's work during this lifetime and provides much for one to think about... highly recommended!
Amazing read... should be read together with other books on karmic astrology - those by Jan Spiller, for example. The books helps to define your soul's work during this lifetime and provides much for one to think about... highly recommended!
June 29, 2010
60 pages into it. Love it. It's taken me years to acquire the perspective she offers. I'm trusting she's offering a sound way to be more in alighnment. The first exercise was simple and very effective. hoping I enjoy the rest of the book as much.
June 4, 2017
Life changing for real. I borrowed this from the library but need my own copy for ref. A lot of material and helped me understand myself better and is putting me on the path to my mission.
December 24, 2024
I have been dabbling in astrology for many years and so I was hoping that this book would help me find out how to make more sense of my birth chart so that I could live life more aligned with my purpose.
While I would agree with the main point of the book that the universe creates certain adverse circumstances in our lives to help guide us to our true purposes, I cannot accept the viewpoint that we should always take responsibility for others' actions.
I stopped at page 30 out of 260 and decided not to read further, because I see that the beginning of the book mirrors the structure used by countless other self-help books even though the author implicitly claims that this book is not like others. While it is true that understanding the philosophy of karmic astrology is important, the author seems to be promoting a "have no personal boundaries" approach to life which is the main cause of dysfunctional relationships.
The author was expounding upon an anecdote about how she was in this relationship in her younger years with a young man whom she thought of to be her soulmate. However, he cheated on her. After calming down after her initial extremely adverse reaction to infidelity (no problems up until this point), she thought deeply for a while and came to the conclusion that her soul had created this adverse event to force her to consider the following perspective more seriously that she creates her own reality. After which she drove to the hospital where her boyfriend worked to tell him that it wasn't his fault and that she was the one who created the cheating scenario through the intervention of her soul and they apparently had a happy marriage six months later.
This just screams to me: dysfunctional relationship. The author cannot say on one hand that suffering is often a necessary component in this world because otherwise our actions and our entire lives would have absolutely no weight and on the other hand have what appears to be a complete lack of personal boundaries. I could understand if she said something along the lines of having consciously ignored redflags at the beginning of her relationship which had led to this rude awakening, though this is not the case. I would have expected her to have accepted the situation as it was and to have dug deeper by getting her boyfriend to speak honestly about why he had cheated on her and how he would be taking responsibility for this action.
The first 30 pages do have a few interesting points. One of them is about how astrology can be analogised to a radar system. It can tell us what lies ahead but the choice of how to respond is ultimately up to us. However, because of reasons I had mentioned in the aforementioned paragraphs, I will not be returning to this book anytime soon. If this is the way how the author thinks, who knows how she would be leading the reader to interpret their charts to be better aligned with their soul purposes.
While I would agree with the main point of the book that the universe creates certain adverse circumstances in our lives to help guide us to our true purposes, I cannot accept the viewpoint that we should always take responsibility for others' actions.
I stopped at page 30 out of 260 and decided not to read further, because I see that the beginning of the book mirrors the structure used by countless other self-help books even though the author implicitly claims that this book is not like others. While it is true that understanding the philosophy of karmic astrology is important, the author seems to be promoting a "have no personal boundaries" approach to life which is the main cause of dysfunctional relationships.
The author was expounding upon an anecdote about how she was in this relationship in her younger years with a young man whom she thought of to be her soulmate. However, he cheated on her. After calming down after her initial extremely adverse reaction to infidelity (no problems up until this point), she thought deeply for a while and came to the conclusion that her soul had created this adverse event to force her to consider the following perspective more seriously that she creates her own reality. After which she drove to the hospital where her boyfriend worked to tell him that it wasn't his fault and that she was the one who created the cheating scenario through the intervention of her soul and they apparently had a happy marriage six months later.
This just screams to me: dysfunctional relationship. The author cannot say on one hand that suffering is often a necessary component in this world because otherwise our actions and our entire lives would have absolutely no weight and on the other hand have what appears to be a complete lack of personal boundaries. I could understand if she said something along the lines of having consciously ignored redflags at the beginning of her relationship which had led to this rude awakening, though this is not the case. I would have expected her to have accepted the situation as it was and to have dug deeper by getting her boyfriend to speak honestly about why he had cheated on her and how he would be taking responsibility for this action.
The first 30 pages do have a few interesting points. One of them is about how astrology can be analogised to a radar system. It can tell us what lies ahead but the choice of how to respond is ultimately up to us. However, because of reasons I had mentioned in the aforementioned paragraphs, I will not be returning to this book anytime soon. If this is the way how the author thinks, who knows how she would be leading the reader to interpret their charts to be better aligned with their soul purposes.
March 22, 2019
Insightful! At the very least thought provoking and forces self-reflection, even for those less spiritually minded.
August 3, 2021
Good for those new to astrology
August 21, 2023
Many insights are revealed personally through actually working the questionnaires and comparisons provided by the authors. Very enlightening.
October 1, 2008
I always go back to this book and re read sections becuase we are always growing and learning how to be trur to our soul mission. The book raised my awareness of why we feel personal struggles sometimes.
August 27, 2016
There are some interesting and thought-provoking concepts here. I took it slowly and did most of the exercises and gained some new insights. Nothing overly profound (I guess I was hoping for that) but still, anything new is good for me.
April 17, 2008
I loved this book! You have to believe in astrology and past lives to love it, and if you do you will love it too!!
August 31, 2015
Fun! Really liked this book, surprised it's so old.
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