\u2022 Your true love<\/p>\n
\u2022 Your destiny<\/p>\n
\u2022 Your one and only<\/p>\n
\u2022 Love at first sight<\/em><\/p>\n
These are terms for what is energetically referred to as a primary soul mate who\u2019s also a romantic partner. But when we set aside all the champagne-and-chocolate that’s the hallmark of modern romance, we understand at a deeper level that these significant soul matings are karmic crossings, and they exist to teach us the lessons of soul growth.<\/p>\n
Soul mates work on soul growth.<\/strong><\/p>\n No matter what your age, you can look back and determine the love relationships that were significant karmic crossings in your life. In relationships that were positive, you might have been working on soul lessons such as:<\/p>\n \u2022 Trust<\/p>\n \u2022 Love<\/p>\n \u2022 Openness<\/p>\n \u2022 Patience<\/p>\n \u2022 Selflessness<\/em><\/p>\n In negative or lesser relationships, you might have been working on lessons such as:<\/p>\n \u2022 Power<\/p>\n \u2022 Control<\/p>\n \u2022 Betrayal<\/p>\n \u2022 Addiction<\/p>\n \u2022 Abuse<\/p>\n \u2022 Anger<\/p>\n \u2022 Abandonment<\/em><\/p>\n In either case, these karmic crossings helped you to move forward as a Divine being learning in a human lifetime.<\/p>\n Do we just have one soul mate?<\/strong><\/p>\n Just as we have multiple relationships with all kinds of people, we also have multiple soul mates. In fact, everyone\u2019s a soul mate, at some level or another!<\/p>\n However, most people use the term soul mate to describe the concept of primary soul mate\u2014that one special person you\u2019re destined to meet; who\u2019s going to change your life, be the butter on your bread, the honey in your tea, and so forth.<\/p>\n So, what happens when we meet someone who we think is a soul mate\u2014but, over time, the relationship doesn\u2019t work out? What happens when you split up from the person you thought was a soul mate, and then eventually, you meet another person who you are equally certain is your soul mate.<\/p>\n Does this mean your first partner or spouse wasn\u2019t a soul mate after all?<\/strong><\/p>\n No, not at all.<\/p>\n Both your past and current partner were soul mates. It\u2019s just that the first soul mate you were with helped you learn a particular karmic lesson or set of lessons. Once those lessons were learned, you were ready to move to a more advanced set of lessons, with the new soul mate.<\/p>\n Our soul mates always match us where we are, in terms of our consciousness and heart expansion. You know the saying \u201clike attracts like\u201d? Well, that\u2019s how it works. When you\u2019re immature and not yet conscious, you attract a soul mate who\u2019s at the same place in his\/her development. When you jump levels and expand into more awareness, you meet a soul mate who can match you there.<\/p>\n Why soul mates separate.<\/strong><\/p>\n Soul mates separate when they have learned the lessons they were destined to learn together. When this happens\u2014when you\u2019ve done all the work you can do in a particular relationship\u2014it also means that once your karmic crossing is complete.<\/p>\n In other words, once you\u2019ve completed the soul lessons you\u2019ve been put together to learn, then the relationship is also complete. You\u2019re ready to move forward and learn new lessons, with another partner. How do you know you\u2019ve met a soul mate?<\/strong><\/p>\n When you meet a soul mate, you know it. There\u2019s an immediate sense of recognition of the soul personality. Many people who have met their soul mates often describe this kind of soul recognition as a deep familiarity, sense that they already knew the person, or of \u201ccoming home.\u201d<\/p>\n However, even if you recognize the soul personality, the human container may be very different from what you expected! Time and again, clients tell me of meeting primary soul mates who show up much differently from what they expected: they\u2019re older, younger, a different race, a different culture.<\/p>\n They\u2019re your perfect soul match, but they don\u2019t look or act anything like what you expected!<\/p>\n The energy of soul mates.<\/strong><\/p>\n And then, there is the energy. The Universe often let\u2019s us know when we\u2019re meeting a soul mate in the form of visible energy, such as white flashes, lightning bolts, auras, and so forth.<\/p>\n For example, my client Anna did some work with me to call forth her soul mate. Soon after, she met a new co-worker at a staff meeting, and the minute they shook hands, she felt dizzy. \u201cMy knees went weak; I actually had to excuse myself and sit down,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n Shortly after, she was in the company kitchen and who should walk in but this man. As they stood in the room together, \u201ca bolt of lightning leaped across from his body to mine,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was bright white, about ten inches tall, and extended the full eight feet between us. I gasped, and when I looked at him, his mouth was hanging open and he looked stunned.\u201d<\/p>\n This kind of visible energy is common when soul mates meet for the first time as if the Universe is asking us to wake up, take note, pay attention!<\/p>\n Soul mates are more than romantic.<\/strong><\/p>\n Primary soul mates aren\u2019t always romantic partners. They can also be the best friend, family member or colleague we are deeply connected to in our lives. Again, every soul meeting is a karmic crossing, designed to help us work through lessons of soul growth in this lifetime.<\/p>\n Understanding this\u2014that we are all here to teach each other\u2014can help us manifest a more joyful approach to life and love, in all the kinds of relationships we have.<\/p>\n Sara Wisewman, author of six books on spiritual enlightenment including her newest “Living a Life of Gratitude”, offers her insights on the concepts of soul mates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/soul-mate.gif\" "\\"\\"")
<\/a>Many of us will have at least one of these primary soul matings in our lifetime. Often, we\u2019ll have a few. With divorce rates hovering at 50 percent and fewer people getting married at all, the idea of one lifetime relationship is just not part of our culture anymore. Nowadays, it\u2019s likely that people will have several soul mates in a lifetime.<\/p>\n
\nMost adults have been in profoundly significant relationships that \u201cdidn\u2019t work out\u201d over time. It\u2019s not because you didn\u2019t love the person at the time, or because the person wasn\u2019t your soul mate. It\u2019s just that for most of us in modern culture, there\u2019s going to be more than one karmic crossing in a lifetime.<\/p>\n<\/a>About Sara Wiseman:<\/strong>
\nSara Wiseman is a spiritual teacher and author of six enlightening books on spiritual intuition. She hosts the popular radio show Ask Sara, and is a regular contributor to DailyOM, VividLife, InspireMeToday and more. Visit her at www.sarawiseman.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"